Re: Are project plans a type of outline?

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Posted by noSPAM
1999-08-08 13:50:03

I was thinking of this in a slightly different way. One thing that Microsoft Project doesn’t handle this very well, and MacProject only slightly better is subprojects. That is, each task in a project may be decomposed into a collection of subtasks, which are, in-turn, decomposable. This is an hierarchy that, when sorted properly, forms an outline. Multiple dependency is not an issue to this view of a project.

Another notion would be to consolidate tasks together into families of tasks. While all of the tasks would be at the same level from the point of view of the project plan, they would be grouped into collections, which can be viewed as an outline. Again, multiple dependency is not an issue.

Kurt

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