Chapter 5. Scheduling Tasks Manually or Automatically

SOME project managers want or need more scheduling control over their projects. That is, they want to be able to manually enter durations, start dates, and finish dates without having those entries recalculate other aspects of the schedule.

Other project managers need a scheduling engine that automatically calculates dates as soon as they enter or change task information. When they enter a task duration, they want the tool to figure the task’s finish date, and when they make a change, they don’t want to have to manually compute all ...

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