Project 2010 (Project Professional 2010) Features - Part 2

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• Scheduling - User-Controlled Scheduling
  
  • Free form scheduling
  • Tasks can now be created and ignored by the built-in scheduling engine, allowing you to manually enter start dates, finish dates, durations... or none of the above.
  • The project manager can have complete control over the task schedule. He can easily switch between manual and auto scheduling –
    
    • Automatic scheduling - Project's powerful scheduling engine to help forecast the date of a task based on various factors like dependencies, calendar, constraints, etc.
    • Manual Scheduling - meaning that you have complete control over task dates. The Start, Finish & Duration fields are blank. When tasks are in this "Manually Scheduled" mode, Project will not automatically calculate and fill in dates for you.
  • Using Project 2010, tasks do not need to be fully defined - you can leave duration or dates as blank or even type text into those fields. This lets you easily capture uncertainties when planning. This provides a visual way of indicating buffer time in schedule.
  • The ‘schedule-checker’ highlights potential problems with the schedule. At any point in time you can switch from manual control, you can toggle your tasks to "Automatically Scheduled" mode. When tasks are "Auto Scheduled", Project will calculate and update their dates automatically.
• Tasks Management
  
  • Inactive Tasks – Individual or groups of tasks can be marked as inactive, allowing you to cancel work or simulate multiple scenarios in the schedule
  • Task Inspector
    
    • An improvement on the task driver feature of Project 2007 with a lot more contextual information presented to the user in an easily understood interface.
    • Includes additional information such as scheduling alerts and advice for tasks in the project schedule.
  • Scheduling
    
    • Use Manual/Automatic scheduling of Task. Be in control of how your tasks are scheduled.
    • Manually-scheduled Tasks - Tasks can now be created and ignored by the built-in scheduling engine, allowing you to manually enter start dates, finish dates, durations... or none of the above.
    • Top-down Summary Tasks - A variation of manually-scheduled tasks in which summary tasks (a.k.a. phases) can be estimated and manually entered into the project schedule without sub-task details.
  • Resource Assignment
    
    • Resource managing at-a-glance - See the right mix of people and resources — simply drag and drop to effectively plan tasks for your entire team and project.
    • Quickly solve problems by identifying unscheduled or unassigned tasks and be visually alerted to potential problems.
    • Assign multiple resources to tasks
  • Supports Total Work and Percent Complete tracking
  • create simple task/milestone dependencies
  • Sync to SharePoint –
    
    • The ability to synchronize a tasks list between Project and SharePoint. Users can now publish a project plan from Project to SharePoint and vice versa. Any changes made in Project / SharePoint can be easily updated into SharePoint / Project with the click of a button.
    • Summary tasks are supported in the synchronization• Most custom fields can be synchronized, and can be added via the Manage Fields dialog
    • This feature only works with SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server 2010• This feature only works when Project Professional is not connected to the server
    • Easy collaboration with teams that do not have access to Project Server.
  
  
• Team Management - Team Planner
  
  • Quickly view assignments across resources. Easily see your team’s work laid out over time . Each team member’s work is represented in a single row, making it easy to glance across the timescale and see who does what when
  • Easily manage assignments
  • A powerful graphical way to depict the workload of your team and to then manipulate assignments to smooth the demand on your people. This graphical view of resources can help Project Managers visualize the allocation of resources to activities, and more easily work to resolve issues of over allocation.
  • Team Planner view gives you the opportunity to re-schedule or re-allocate work by simply clicking and dragging bars to clear windows of time.
  • Easily resolve resource over allocation, allocation on single of multiple projects.
  • A row for each resource with each of their task assignments shown in the timescale area. Overallocations for the time period are highlighted in red. Automatically resolving overallocations
  • A visual resource assignment planning tool that allows you to view and manipulate assignments through a drag & drop interface. Now you can grab a task and move it to another date or even move it down and drop it into another resource’s row and assign it to him.
  • Team Planner is combining the power of the Gantt chart with the simplicity and familiarity of the Outlook calendar.
  • Easily see your team’s work laid out over time .Quickly spot problems .Drag and drop to resolve those problems
  • The unassigned and unscheduled zones
  • Updating your status directly in the view
  • Customizing the look and feel of the view: colors, sizing, hiding sections, filtering, grouping
  • Seeing/editing more details through tooltips, right-click, double click, and split views

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