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Entering Task Information in Microsoft Project - Continued

For this exercise we will use the task area of the Gantt view to enter our tasks. Assuming you have a blank, new project, select the first row of the project.

  • Project Office and press enter.
  • Scope and press enter.
  • Determine Project Office Scope and press tab, enter 3 days for the duration and press enter. Press left arrow once.
  • Document high-level Project Office requirements including resources, press tab, enter 2 day for the duration and press enter. Press left arrow once.
  • Justify Project Office via business model, press tab, enter 3 days for the duration and press enter. Press left arrow once.
  • Secure Executive sponsorship, press tab, enter 2 days for the duration, press enter and press left arrow once.
  • Scope Complete, press tab, enter 0.
  • Your screen should look like the one below.

enter task info

As this point we haven't entered any of the tasks dependencies, recourses or rolled anything up into major task headings; we'll do these next.

Note: Any tasks that is created without a duration is a milestone.

 

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