Entering Task Information in Microsoft Project - Continued

For this exercise we will use the task area of the Gantt view to enter our tasks. Assuming you have a blank, new project, select the first row of the project.

• Project Office and press enter.
• Scope and press enter.
• Determine Project Office Scope and press tab, enter 3 days for the duration and press enter. Press left arrow once.
• Document high-level Project Office requirements including resources, press tab, enter 2 day for the duration and press enter. Press left arrow once.
• Justify Project Office via business model, press tab, enter 3 days for the duration and press enter. Press left arrow once.
• Secure Executive sponsorship, press tab, enter 2 days for the duration, press enter and press left arrow once.
• Scope Complete, press tab, enter 0.
• Your screen should look like the one below.

As this point we haven't entered any of the tasks dependencies, recourses or rolled anything up into major task headings; we'll do these next.

Note: Any tasks that is created without a duration is a milestone.