Special Edition Using Microsoft® Project 2002

An Overview of Scheduling

After you enter project tasks and estimate durations, you must focus on developing the schedule of start and finish dates. Up to this point in the book, you’ve used Microsoft Project as a basic word processor or spreadsheet program—entering tasks and durations in a task view. This chapter explores how to link these tasks to define the logical sequence of activity, thus giving Project specific information for calculating a schedule. It also examines how to record constraints and deadlines, assign task calendars, and split tasks.

The project schedule depends on a number of factors, including the following:

• The project schedule either begins on a fixed start date or is calculated to end on a fixed finish date. You control ...