Dynamic Scheduling With Microsoft Office Project 2003: The Book by and for Professionals

By Eric Uyttewaal

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Activity

In this book, the terms task and activity are used interchangebly since the interface of MS Project uses the word task often.

See also Task.

Actuals

The actuals is the set of data that represents how the project ran. It shows the final duration ( Actual Duration), the hours that were spent ( Actual Work), the real start date ( Actual Start), the real finish date ( Actual Finish) and the final cost ( Actual Cost) of each task.

Assignment

An assignment is a combination of a task and a resource. It can be a resource scheduled to work on a particular task or a task assigned to a specific resource. Assignments have their own specific fields, such as start and finish, work, units, work contour and cost rate table.

Bar Chart

See Gantt Chart.

Baseline

The baseline is the originally approved schedule, plus the approved changes. The baseline schedule is meant to be compared against. The baseline contains the start and finish dates, durations, work and cost numbers and their time-phased spread. The baseline values are static unless you baseline again.

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