Basic Concepts

You can work with projects, which are processes for attaining a specified goal or objective.

For details, see Working With Projects.

Functionality includes:

• Creating and editing projects
• Creating and editing project templates
• Working with the project dashboard
• Exporting a project
• Working with project members
• Working with duration keywords

Programs control one or more projects.

For details, see Working With Programs.

Functionality includes:

• Creating and editing programs
• Viewing the Projects Summary report for a program

You can work the task schedule, which is a hierarchy of tasks and subtasks required to complete a project.

For details, see Working With Task Scheduling.

Functionality includes:

• Creating and editing tasks
• Scheduling tasks
• Assigning tasks
• Working with gates and deliverables
• Working with the Gantt chart
• Working with baselines
• Managing efforts for tasks

Business goals are sets of objectives, goals, or requirements to be fulfilled by individual projects.

For details, see Working With Business Goals.

Functionality includes:

• Creating and editing business goals
• Working with subgoals
• Viewing projects for business goals
• Viewing the dashboard for business goals

A project budget keeps track of the costs and benefits for a project.

For details, see Working With the Project Budget.

Functionality includes:

• Creating a project budget
• Working a budget
• Working with budget templates

You can set and track quality goals in a project using CTQs.

For details, see Working With Quality Management.

Functionality includes:

• Working with CTQs
• Working with quality metrics

A risk identifies a potential problem that may prevent the completion of a task or project.

For details, see Working With Risk Management.

Functionality includes:

• Creating and editing risks
• Working with RPNs
• Working with affected items
• Assigning risks

You can manage the people resources on a project and work with timesheets.

For details, see Managing Resources and Working With Timesheets.

Functionality includes:

• Working with resource pools
• Working with resource plans
• Creating resource requests
• Creating timesheets
• Approving timesheets
• Viewing timesheet reports