Creating projects
Any temporary endeavor or initiative created and managed in order
to achieve an organization's objectives is referred to as a project. Projects
are the starting point for conceptualizing, organizing, and defining your
work.
- Creating a project
Creating a project is the first step in outlining your work. A
project provides a basis for logically grouping the activities that are required
to achieve the project's objective or target. When you create a project, you
must specify the project type (effort-based or duration-based), and select
a project calendar that provides the basis for calculating the project schedule
and effort.
- Project calendars
A project calendar contains a record of working and non-working
days and hours for a project, and provides the basis for calculating all time-based
aspects of a project, such as, schedule dates and duration, estimated effort,
and resource allocation dates.
- Effort-based and duration-based projects
During project creation, you must select the project type as effort-based
or duration-based. This selection defines the scheduling method that will
be applied to the project and the project activities - whether the project
will be scheduled and tracked using the effort required to complete each activity,
or using the duration within which each activity must complete.
- Creating a project WBS
When you create a project WBS, you provide a breakdown of a project's
scope and activities using the WBS elements - iteration, summary task, task,
milestone, change request, issue, and defect.
- Work breakdown structure
A work breakdown structure (WBS) is an elaboration of the project
activities required to achieve the project's objectives. A WBS defines the
total work scope of the project. Each descending level represents an increasingly
detailed definition of the project work.
- Nesting rules for WBS elements
In a WBS tree structure, the WBS elements can have parent-child
relationships. The possible parent-child relationships are defined as element
nesting rules. These rules are enforced during the WBS tree creation.
- Viewing projects
In the WBS tree and WBS grid, you can view only those projects
(and the associated WBS) that you have the permission to view. To view a project,
you must be the creator of the project, or you must be assigned to a project
element, such as a task.
- Creating a project schedule
After creating a project and project WBS, create the planned schedule
by specifying approximate dates and duration for each activity.