Do you ever encounter a situation in your projects where things can only happen due to factors beyond your control? If so have you considered exploiting the potential of task calendars?
First introduced with the 2000 version of Microsoft Project Task Calendars are an often overlooked or misunderstood feature that can further help your schedule model real life limitations. I have met many users over the past 10 years who have not appreciated the potential of this feature, on more than one occasion I have met users who have applied their projects “Base Calendar” to all the tasks in their project, their rationale being Task Calendars are available and therefore should be used. Their actions have absolutely no impact on their schedule as they are telling their tasks to do what they were already doing. Read the rest of this entry »
