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In Microsoft Project, Summary Tasks are Misnamed
Microsoft Project has a feature called summary tasks. In Microsoft’s world, you take a bottom-up approach to creating your schedule. You create a list of tasks, and when you realize one can be broken up into smaller activities, you create those smaller tasks and indent them (making them subtasks), and your original task becomes a…
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Before You Perform a Time Impact Analysis . . .
Many organizations, as they are considering the impact of a considered change to a project, perform a Time Impact Analysis (TIA). A time impact analysis is a scheduling technique that models the change being considered and its impact (cost, time, resources) on the schedule. Any article you read on performing a TIA stipulates as a…