tailieunhanh - Project Planning and Control Part 9

Đến cuối dự án, quản lý dự án phải sắp xếp cho một kết thúc ngoài dự án được kiểm soát. | 31 MS Project 98 Probably the most popular project management program in use today is MS Project. Since its first introduction it was updated a number of times and its latest version MS Project 98 has been further enhanced to enable communications to be made to the Internet as well as improving the existing capabilities relating to resource management Earned Value Analysis and Intranet support. The list below shows some of the additional facilities provided by the latest version of MS Project Task Usage and Resource Usage Custom time-period tracking Cross project linking Resource contouring Multiple critical paths Task splitting Status date Customizable Gantt charts Workgroup features Web publishing Personal Web Server for Windows 95 Office Assistant MS Office compatibility Database file format Full ODBC Open Database Connectivity support Project Planning and Control Figure Figure 340 MS Project 98 The basic principles which are common to most commercial project management software packages are described below. When MS Project is opened the Application window which contains the Project window appears as shown in Figure View - Table - Entry . The Project window shown is the Gantt chart view or Task Entry Table and is the default view of MS Project. The Project window can be split using a special split feature Window - Split so that the lower section becomes the Task Form used to enter additional information for each task. This is shown in Figure . The first job is to set up the project using the Project Information box as shown in Figure . This when completed will show the Project Start date Figure Finish date a selection box which will show which of the two Start date or Finish date will be used as a basis for scheduling the Current date Status date and the type of calendar selected. The calendar can be Standard 24 hours or Night Shift. If the Start date has been selected for scheduling the Finish date will be adjusted automatically .