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Part I: Setting the Stage for Project
day — and in the same eight hours — Project has features that do everything
but jump up on your desk and set off an alarm to warn you of the conflict.
(Luckily, Project also provides tools that help you resolve those conflicts.)
Spreading the news
I’m one of those people who need instant gratification. One of the first things
I ask about learning how to use any new software product is, “What’s in it for
me?” Until now, I’ve told you about the type of information you have to put
into Project: information about tasks, task dependencies, and resources. But
isn’t it about time you got something back from Project? Of course it is.
You finally reached one of the big payoffs for entering all that information:
reporting. After you enter your information, Project offers a wealth of viewing
and reporting options to help you review your project and communicate your
progress to your project team, clients, and management.
You can generate predesigned reports based on information in your sched-
ule or simply print any of the views you can display in Project. Project 2010
offers a set of basic reports and visual reports. Figures 1-5 and 1-6 show you
just two of the reporting options available in Project.
Figure 1-5:
Study
resource
usage
with the
graphical
Resource
Graph view.
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