From the course: Microsoft Project Management: Choose the Right Tool for the Job
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The pros and cons of Project Desktop
From the course: Microsoft Project Management: Choose the Right Tool for the Job
The pros and cons of Project Desktop
- [Narrator] Project Desktop with Project Online enhances our project management tool set to enterprise level. However, this comes with additional setup. We should determine if the setup makes this the right pick for our organization. One of the pros of Project Desktop with Project Online is the scheduling engine is part of the tool. We can see that by going to our Acme development schedule, and here we can see how we created the dependencies, and it adjusted the dates with the tasks when they will auto scheduled. If you move a task, you can click on that task and move it from one section to the other. This makes it simpler for us to have auto scheduling and see date changes immediately within the client. One of the other parts of the tool was that we had resource allocation could be done at less than 100% of an allocation. So if you recall, when we had Sarah assigned to task two, and we went to the view ribbon, we looked…
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- (Locked) An overview of Project Desktop5m 40s
- (Locked) Getting started with Project Desktop basics5m 54s
- (Locked) Working with Project Desktop standalone features, part 14m 38s
- (Locked) Working with Project Desktop standalone features, part 23m 31s
- (Locked) The pros and cons of Project Desktop3m 57s
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