Microsoft Project
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Exercise: Surprise Party - Task Types

A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!

1)	Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-935.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2)	Open the file found in the folder shown above.
3)	Assign the following Task Types to ensure control over the duration and work hours calculation: Invite Guests - Fixed Work Keep the secret - Fixed Duration Distraction - Fixed Duration Surprise - Fixed Duration Enjoy Party - Fixed Duration
4)	Ensure you have the correct Effort Driven indicators in place and then make the following resource assignments:
	Your durations should not be changing at this point!
5)	Taking 2 weeks to invite the guests is a bit slow. How many people would it need to get the invitations done in 1 week?
6)	Change the resource assignment on the Arrange Catering tasks so that two of the Best Friends are taking this on instead of the partner. Your duration on this task should halve with this change.
7)	Your final project plan should look similar to the below:
	The rescource names have been removed from the Gantt chart via formatting.
8)	Save your updated file as Surprise Planned and close it down.

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