Baseline is now available in the new Microsoft Planner premium plans (formerly known as Project for the web projects). With the capability, users can capture the state of a plan at a specific moment. It serves as a reference point against which the project's current progress is compared. As your project evolves, referring to this Baseline helps you determine if you're on track or if adjustments are necessary. 

Railroads connect point “A” with point “B,” with railroad engineers using a construction concept called the “Critical Path.”

With multiple projects being managed in PWA,[1] it is not easy to organize the project information and provide an easy-to-understand view across different projects and programs. The Departments feature may help make your Project Online environment much easier to navigate, and make the project information simpler to consume.

Some users of Project Online encounter a problem, trying to submit the final Timesheet to a Timesheet Manager. They are getting the error message saying “The submitted timesheet contains lines that have been rejected. Update these lines on your timesheet and then resubmit it”. It’s confusing if the user hasn’t sent progress for the current week. Today we would like to clarify how it may happen and what to do if you face the same error message.

The main purpose of local caching is to speed up access to Enterprise projects and reduce time, spent on processing data, while you are working with project files. Let’s walk through the process of caching briefly.

It may be interesting for you, as for user of PWA, to know what capabilities to track progress Project can provide to you. Because the great part of a project success depends on how effectively you manage the project team and how you can control tasks performance and take corrective actions if necessary. Today we are going to take a closer look at various features of PWA, allowing you to build the most appropriate and flourishing accountability at your company.

It often happens, that you start to create a project and when you begin building a schedule, you realize that the number of tasks is too large. And you need to group them all into some summary tasks. But then you see a bunch of summary tasks and want to group them too.

Using the Managing Programs using Subprojects, you can create a Master project and Subproject to manage your program. So now your projects are linked. But you can face another challenge. You may want to link the task from one project to the task from another project, if they are dependent to each other. You need to create cross-project dependencies. In other words, cross-project links.

Project Online allows you to set up the e-mail alerts and reminders. There is a useful feature for everybody. For a team member it is useful to stay in touch with his tasks. For a project manager it is good to know that the team is following the schedule. And for a resource manager it is important to respond on the resource requests on time. But there can be a lot of tasks, resources, lots of requests and you cannot keep this everything in mind.

That’s why it is very comfortable to use e-mail Alerts and Reminders.

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