Working with Personal Projects

After you've created a personal project, the dashboard will offer a rich set of tools for building a plan and tracking your work.

To access these tools, select the project on the main dashboard toolbar, then click on the Project Reports and Tools button:

The sections below outline the use of these tools on a personal project. These are the same tools that are available to project teams, so you'll see links below that take you to more information in the "team use" section of the User's Manual. The key difference is that a personal project has only one team member (you); so some of the user interfaces described in the team help will be streamlined to hide team-related elements you don't need.

Editing the Work Breakdown Structure

To build your task plan, you will use the Work Breakdown Structure Editor.

Working with your Personal Plan

The tasks you created in the WBS will appear in your personal plan in the main dashboard toolbar.

Tracking Progress

As you work, the project reports and tools button will offer a number of charts and reports to help you track your progress.

Managing Iterations

Project development is an iterative process. When a project iteration comes to an end, you can choose " → Alter Project" to perform the following actions: