From the course: Project Management Foundations: Schedules
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Organize project work - Microsoft Project Tutorial
From the course: Project Management Foundations: Schedules
Organize project work
- [Instructor] There are three main ways to organize the activities in your project, by deliverable, phase, or group. You can choose one approach or a combination based on how you're going to plan and manage your project. When you identify deliverables and work packages in a work breakdown structure, it's easy to organize the activities that produce each deliverable. If your project has distinct phases, such as design, development, and production, you might want to organize work by phase. Organizing work by phase makes sense if you have go/no-go decisions at the ends of phases. For example, you might group the activities for a feasibility study. If the project isn't feasible, you stop at the end of that phase. When you organize by phase, you can organize activities within each phase by deliverable or group. When different groups perform distinct portions of the project, you can also organize work by the groups,…
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