Also, there’s a national holiday on September 7th (Labor Day), so no work on that day either. On Friday, September 4th you are on a business trip where you can’t work on the task. Suppose a task takes 10 days to complete and you start on Thursday, September 3rd. In real life, scheduling project work is a lot more complex. Then the task will end on Tuesday, January 7th, because you don’t work on Saturday and Sunday. Let’s say you have a task that starts on Wednesday, January 1st and takes 5 days to complete. Scheduling is the process of allocating tasks on the timeline.
(New to MS Project? Check out my e-book, The 80/20 Guide to Microsoft Project) What is meant by scheduling? In this article we’ll look at what’s the difference and I’ll tell you when to use each. You should understand the difference between the two, so that you are able to plan your project properly. One thing you’ll notice when working with MS Project is that the software supports two ways of scheduling tasks: Manual scheduling and automatic scheduling.
