In PPM, several applications display
tasks and give you the ability to view tasks details and update task progress.
How you manage tasks depends on your role in a project.
Most often, team members
interact with their tasks within the context of a project, using the project-level Tasks application. For other PPM users, the global Tasks application is useful because it aggregates assigned tasks across projects. From either application you can create, view, update and edit tasks (your ability to do each of these depends on permissions and your relationship to individual tasks).
The Tasks application you use depends on your specific needs:
- Global Tasks—The
global Tasks application is a cross-project
application that gives you the ability to quickly view and manage
your tasks for any or all of your workspaces.
In the global Tasks application, tasks are displayed without any relationship
to one another. The tasks share the single common characteristic of belonging
to you (they are assigned to you). If you are a member of more than one
workspace, the global Tasks application displays tasks from all your workspaces.
For more information, see Using
the Global Tasks Application.
- Workspace
Tasks—The Workspace Tasks application is workspace-specific
and accessed from within individual workspaces. It displays tasks for the
current workspace and provides several different ways to manage the tasks,
including a Task List view that supports in-line editing, and a Gantt Chart view. The Workspace
Tasks application gives project managers the ability to manage tasks belonging
to all their team members.
For more information, see Using the Project Tasks Application.
- Calendar—PPM
includes two calendar applications that give you the ability to see both
your appointments and any tasks that you may due during the period you
are viewing. Like the Tasks applications, there is a global Calendar application
and a workspace Calendar. For more information, see Calendar
Overview.
Once tasks are created, team members can update them as they
work, adding information like how much time they spend working on each
task, and the percentage of the task that is complete.
For more information about how tasks are scheduled, see the Task Schedule Overview.
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