Project Management Fundamentals - A guide to the project management body of knowledge

Let’s focus on the dinner for 200 people with live entertainment and a silent auction. It is a simple project but it demonstrates how project management software works and what one can do with it. This example looks only at the time spent to get the dinner ready and not printing and other costs, which are budgeted separately. Before one uses Project Management software, one starts with a work breakdown structure. This is a hierarchy of tasks with roots branching like a tree. It captures all work to be delivered. Defining a work...