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The Chart sheet contains a stacked bar chart of actual and remaining work per resource. You can also observe the data on which the chart is based on the Resource Summary sheet. Because the chart is based on an Excel PivotTable (visible on the Resource Summary sheet), you can substantially refi ne the data and corresponding chart. 9. Close Excel without saving the visual report. Tip Project users frequently go to a lot of trouble to customize views to include specifi c information in the format they want. Before you do that, check the predefi ned views (for online work or printing), reports (for printing), or visual reports (for charts and diagrams). There’s a good chance that the Project designers have anticipated your needs and provided a predefi ned solution for you. 10. Click Close to close the Visual Reports dialog box. Exploring Reports 27 To conclude this exercise, you’ll close the fi le you’ve been using to explore views and reports. 11. On the File menu, click Close to close the New Business plan. When prompted to save changes, click the No button.
28 Chapter 1 Getting Started with Project Creating a New Project Plan A project plan is essentially a model you construct of some aspects of the real project you anticipate—what you think will happen or what you want to happen (it’s usually best if these are not too different). This model focuses on some, but not all, aspects of the real project—tasks, resources, time frames, and possibly their associated costs. As you might expect, Project focuses primarily on time. You might know the planned start date of a project, the planned fi nish date, or both. However, when working with Project, you specify only one date: the project start date or the project fi nish date. Why? Because after you enter the project start or fi nish date and the durations of the tasks, Project calculates the other date for you. Remember that Project is not merely a static repository of your schedule information; it is an active scheduling tool. Most projects should be scheduled by using a start date, even if you know that the project must fi nish by a certain deadline date. Scheduling from a start date causes all tasks to start as soon as possible and gives you the greatest scheduling fl exibility. In later chapters, you will witness this fl exibility in action as we work with a project that is scheduled from a start date. Project Management Focus: Project Is Part of a Larger Picture Depending on your needs and the information to which you have access, the proj- proj- ect plans you develop might not deal with other important aspects of real projects. For example, many large projects are undertaken in organizations that have a for- for- mal change management process. Before a major change to the scope of a project is allowed, it must fi rst be evaluated and approved by the people managing and implementing implementing the project. Even though this is an important project management activity, it is not something done directly within Project. Now that you’ve had a brief look at the major parts of the Project interface, you are ready to create the project plan you will use in Part 1 of this book. In this exercise, you create a new project plan. 1. On the File menu, click the New command. Then, in the New Project task pane, click Blank Project. Project creates a new, blank project plan. Next, you’ll set the project’s start date. 2. On the Project menu, click Project Information. The Project Information dialog box appears.
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