Plan and run projects: overview

Summary: Every LYNX-X article on plan and run projects, grouped by what you want to do.

In LYNX-X, this topic covers what you need to create a project, build its plan, schedule it with critical chain, release it and keep it on track. Go straight to the part you need: every article says what it is for and how long it takes to read.

In this topic

Create a project

Start a new project from scratch or from a template.

Do

• Creating a project: create a project in your space and give it the ID, name and status that the project list uses to identify it. About 3 minutes of reading.
• Creating a project from a template: start a new project from a template, with its tasks, durations, dependencies and assignments already in place. About 3 minutes of reading.
• Creating a project template: turn a project plan into a template that new projects can start from, with Save as template in Project properties. About 4 minutes of reading.

Build the plan

Add tasks, put them in order and say who is needed.

Do

• Adding a skill or a task manager to a task: say which skill a task needs and who looks after it, from the task's own Assignments and Taskmanagers tabs. About 3 minutes of reading.

Release and track a project

Release the plan to the team and read how the project is doing.

Look up

• Reading project statistics: the Project Statistics panel reports the state of a project's critical chain and its buffer, and is where the coloured bar in the project list comes from. About 3 minutes of reading.