Kicking Projects Up a Notchįull-time project managers have long relied on WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) codes as a means of controlling a project’s phases, down to the minutest detail. Organized by industry (publishing and law, for example) these files offer a starter collection of tasks you can use when you’re not sure which steps are essential for a successful project. You might also want to try moving things along with some of version 8’s new Example files. For instance, to begin, we simply launched the program’s New File Assistant and selected the Construction template as an instant framework. While it’s up to you to determine your project’s scope–including deadlines, task assignments, and so forth–FastTrack Schedule 8’s templates help you put all these elements together without overwhelming you.
With 43 possible columns and many formatting options for graphs, casual project planners may have trouble figuring out where to begin. Put plainly, this colored horizontal bar illustrates the duration of all project phases, so you can quickly see where major parts of a project fall along the bar and how they relate to other parts of the plan. Second, we appreciated the new Continual Summary Bar Display. First, the software’s auto-outlining function now maintains activities at their current levels in the hierarchy, rather than forcing you to indent each new task manually as you enter it. While there was nothing especially difficult about creating and modifying a schedule in past versions, FastTrack Schedule 8 further simplifies the process.
If your project changes midstream, reordering the sequence of events is a painless process–just drag and drop the bars in the desired order within the timeline. A graphical timeline’s horizontal bars represent how long tasks last. FastTrack Schedule shines as you get down to day-to-day work.
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