Analyze your schedule  After you create a basic schedule, you should check it to discover problems or oversights that require adjustments.

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• Analyze project and resource performance by using Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. You can create a PivotChart (PivotChart: Provides a graphical representation of the data in a PivotTable report, an interactive, crosstabulated report that summarizes and analyzes data. Use the Portfolio Analyzer to select the data that you display in a PivotChart.) or PivotTable (PivotTable report: An interactive table that summarizes, or crosstabulates, large amounts of data. You can rotate its rows and columns to see different summaries of the source data, filter the data by displaying different pages, or display details.) report to help you analyze the schedule for resource (resources: The people, equipment, and material that are used to complete tasks in a project.) or project problems.
• Review the progress of your schedule to see how its tasks are affecting the finish date.
• Display task scheduling information to learn how your project is being scheduled to get an overview of how your project and its tasks are being planned. Task scheduling can involve many complex settings that you should review periodically.

 Compare two versions of a project  You can compare two project files from the same project and produce a customized, detailed report (report: A format in which you can print schedule information that is appropriate for the intended recipients. You can use the predefined reports provided by Project or create custom reports.) to help you identify schedule problems.

• Compare two versions of a project

 Determine if your project's finish date has changed  You can view an overall summary of the project's dates and the critical tasks that directly affect the finish date.

• See what's driving the project finish date (critical path)

 Assess why the project finish date is delayed  Review the factors in the schedule that could extend the finish date of your project.

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• Show the critical path to quickly find problem tasks. Tasks that fall on the critical path (critical path: The series of tasks that must be completed on schedule for a project to finish on schedule. Each task on the critical path is a critical task.) have a powerful effect on your schedule, because a delay of a critical task extends the finish date. Because the critical path may change as you modify your schedule, showing the critical path for your schedule helps you make decisions about what changes to make and how those changes affect the critical path.
• Check task dependencies (links) within your project to review the dependencies (task dependencies: A relationship between two linked tasks; linked by a dependency between their finish and start dates. There are four kinds of task dependencies: Finish-to-start [FS], Start-to-start [SS], Finish-to-finish [FF], and Start-to-finish [SF].) for tasks on the critical path to make sure that they are accurate and necessary. Unnecessary or inaccurate task dependencies can cause your project to finish later.
• Manage dependencies and deliverables across projects to determine if any deliverables from other teams or their projects might affect the finish date of your project.
• Examine task constraints to see if they are necessary. Unnecessary task constraints (constraint: A restriction set on the start or finish date of a task. You can specify that a task must start on or finish no later than a particular date. Constraints can be flexible [not tied to a specific date] or inflexible [tied to a specific date].) can limit the flexibility of your schedule by forcing tasks to start on certain dates or to use all available slack (slack: The amount of time that a task can slip before it affects another task or the project's finish date. Free slack is how much a task can slip before it delays another task. Total slack is how much a task can slip before it delays the project.). If you eliminate unnecessary constraints, Microsoft Office Project 2007 schedules tasks based on their durations and relationships to one another.
• Examine a visual report to view your project's data in PivotTable (PivotTable report: An interactive table that summarizes, or crosstabulates, large amounts of data. You can rotate its rows and columns to see different summaries of the source data, filter the data by displaying different pages, or display details.) reports in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and PivotDiagram views in Microsoft Office Visio 2007.