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What is project management?

Project management is a distinct area of management that helps in handling projects. It has three key features to distinguish it from other forms of management and they include: a project manager, the project team and the project management system.

How does Microsoft Project work?

Microsoft Project provides the ability to structure the tasks by setting different levels of tasks and grouping tasks under a summary task. This can be useful where the project has a considerable number of tasks; management can be made easier by only viewing and reporting on the summary tasks.

How to Mange the duration of a project?

Except for fixed duration activities such as crop duration, gestation period etc it is possible to mange the duration of an activity by varying the quantity of resource. If cost is not a constraint, putting more resources to the activity duration could reduce be reduced. This in other word means time and cost of a project are inversely related.

How to display the overall time aspects of a project?

In order that the system is able to display the overall time aspects of the project, each Task must be defined in terms of the Tasks on which it is dependent and in turn those Tasks that are dependent on it. It is also possible to define in what way these dependencies exist. Most associated Tasks will have a straightforward linear relationship.