![]() ![]() Add a duration of 2 days for the first, and 8 days for the second. Below ‘Child task 2’ add ‘Child for child 2’ and ‘Child for child 2b’. Let’s make things a little bit more complicated now. Master task duration has automatically changed.Ĭongratulations on making it possible to breakdown ‘Master task’!.Both child tasks are ‘enclosed’ to Master task.So, right click on ‘Child task 1’ and ‘Indent’. We are going to use the ‘Indent’ option for now. You can understand what New, Delete, Cut, Copy and Paste do. If you right click on ‘Child task 1’ you will see some options. Anyway, let’s connect ‘Child task 1’ and ‘Child task 2’ with ‘Master task’. Meaning that the project duration is dependent on that. This is because it is the most critical one. As you have noticed, the first one is red. We now have three tasks independent from one another. Add another task called ‘Child task 1’ with a duration of 5 days and another task called ‘Child task 2’ with a duration of 7 days. Add a task with a duration of 10 days as at the image below.Īfter adding the task lets breakdown this task to other tasks. Don’t forget to save your project regularly! In the next tutorial we are going to see how we can add resources and create sub-tasks. As you can see in this image below, this is a great way to visualize your project’s critical path. Your tasks are now dependent on one other. ![]() One of the most fundamental actions that you will do when planning a project is connecting tasks to one another as the start of some tasks are dependent on others completion. To do this, add tasks as shown in the image below (left) and then drag and drop the first task to the third task as shown on the right of the image. You will see a question mark near ‘Duration’. You can click on ‘Estimated‘ if you are not sure about the task’s duration. ‘ Start‘ represents the task’s start and ‘ Finish‘ is calculated automatically. ‘Duration‘ and ‘Work‘ represent the task’s duration. For example, double click on ‘ Meeting with Client‘ text. As seen below, you can see some of the task’s options: After showing the total project’s work hours, double-click on the tasks record for different viewing options. Now, you can see your task’s total hours. You can do this by right clicking on the column ‘ Duration‘, click ‘ Insert Column‘ and then choose ‘ Work‘. On the right of this window, is where you will see the project’s Gantt diagram -we will come back to this.Referring to the image below, you may want to see how many hours it takes to complete a task. ![]() Take a moment to change the ‘Duration’ from 1 day to 20 days and notice how the chart on the right changes. As seen in the table above, type in the appropriate field, the task’s ‘ Name‘, ‘ Duration‘ and ‘ Start‘ – the finish date is then calculated automatically. Adding Your First TaskĪfter you enter your project details you are ready to create your first task. And for good reason, you may be managing a project involving a scheduled event at a hotel. This means that the project has a mandatory, non-negotiable, end date. If ‘Forward Scheduled’ is unchecked, then you indicate the project’s finish date/deadline. You will need to enter the following information about your project:įorward Scheduled: If ‘ Forward Scheduled‘ is checked, then the project’s end date changes according to the task finish dates you enter. Once ProjectLibre, is downloaded and installed you should see a window like this one below.Īfter clicking on ‘Create Project’ you must enter some basic project details as seen in the screen below. Certainly, it is suitable to carefully define some of the terminology frequently used in project management before further expanding on the abilities of ProjectLibre, since the use of these terms is not completely uniform, either in project management software nor in organizational usage. Obviously, this list of features is not intended to be comprehensive and there is nothing remarkably unique about this list. Current features include: task management, work breakdown structure generation (a list and a graphical representation), resource allocation and tracking, and Gantt charts that provide a clear view of the critical path elements of the schedule. The feature set included in the current version of ProjectLibre is largely the one in Open Project, the predecessor open source program. Obviously, that includes MS Project, as well as several other such projects and most other open source alternatives like Calligra Plan. It is free software, just as the name suggests, but it is also compatible with any other project management software that can read and write. ProjectLibre is a freshly strengthened open source project proposed to update and invigorate a software tool projected as an alternative to commercial software like Microsoft Project. ![]()
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