Using Project Guide for Tracking

If you're new to tracking, you might find it helpful to begin by using Project Guide's Track sidepane (see Figure 14.1). This sidepane enables you to do the following:

• Save a baseline

• Select a tracking method and prepare a custom view for tracking

• Incorporate actual profgress information into the project

• Check the status of tasks

• Modify the project in light of tracking information

• Track issues related to the project

• Request periodic text-based assessments of general status from key resources

• Publish new and changed assignments to Project Server

Figure 14.1. The Project Guide toolbar is a good place to begin learning about tracking.

Most of these topics are discussed in greater detail in the sections that follow. (See the section "Choosing a Tracking Method," later in this chapter.) The Project Guide toolbar steps for tracking were designed with users of Microsoft Project Server in mind; therefore, the last three topics in the list are covered in Chapter 24, "Introduction to Project Server."