Summary
In this chapter, we gained an understanding of how to manage our projects. We began with the work breakdown structure and the tasks that are created. As we reviewed the various views of the tasks, we discussed how this helps a project manager work through tasks such as a budgetary item; a Kanban board as an agile type of management approach; and a Timeline view where you can generate dependencies and move the timeline. All of this supports the modern project manager's need to deliver projects successfully.
We then reviewed the resourcing, costs, and selling aspects of the project and the tabs that drive these factors. We learned how to add and remove team members from a project and how to set up offshore resources with different cost rates, organizational units, and currencies. This allows us to make real-time personnel adjustments, resulting in better costing and profitability of our projects.
While learning how to manage risks, change orders, and status reports...