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as the work is completed. Cost is one side of the project triangle model. cost rate table The resource pay rates that are stored on the Costs tab of the Resource Information dialog box. You can have up to five separate cost rate tables per resource. cost resource A type of resource used to represent financial costs associated with tasks in a project. Use cost resources to account for standard categories of costs that you want to track in a project, such as costs for travel or catering. A cost resource does no work and has no effect on the scheduling of a task to which it is assigned. critical path A series of tasks that, if delayed, will push out the end date of a project. deadline A date value that you can enter for a task that indicates the latest date by which you want the task to be completed. If the scheduled completion date of a task is later than its deadline, Microsoft Project notifies you. The benefit of entering deadline dates is that they do not constrain tasks. deliverable The final product, service, or event that a project is intended to produce. dependency A link between a predecessor task and a successor task. A dependency controls the start or finish of one task relative to the start or finish of the other task. The most common dependency is finish-to-start (FS), in which the finish date of the predecessor task determines the start date of the successor task. destination program The program into which you place the data when exchanging data between Microsoft Project and another program. duration The span of working time that you expect it will take to complete a task. effort-driven scheduling A scheduling method in which the work of a task remains constant regardless of the number of resources assigned to it. As resources are added to a task, the duration decreases, but the total work remains the same and is distributed among the

assigned resources. Effort-driven scheduling is turned off by default, but it can be turned on for fixed-unit or fixed-duration tasks. Effortdriven scheduling is always turned on for fixed-work tasks. elapsed duration The uninterrupted span of time that it will take to finish a task, based on a 24-hour day and a 7-day week. Elapsed duration is not limited by project, resource, or task calendars; it is continuous. enterprise project management (EPM) Project management practiced in a formal, consistent way throughout an organization. Entry table The grid on the left side of the default Gantt Chart view. export map The specifications for exporting fields from Microsoft Project to other file formats, such as Tab-delimited format. Project includes several export maps, which you can use as they are or modify. field The lowest-level information about a task, resource, or assignment. filtering In a view, a way to see or highlight only the task or resource information that meets the criteria you choose. fixed consumption rate A fixed quantity of a material resource to be consumed in the completion of an assignment. fixed cost A set amount of money budgeted for a task. This amount is independent of resource costs and task duration. fixed duration A task type in which the duration value is fixed. If you change the amount of work that you expect a task to require, Microsoft Project recalculates the resource assignment s peak units for each resource. If you change duration or units, Project recalculates the work. fixed units A task type in which a resource assignment s units value is fixed. If you change the duration of a task, Microsoft Project recalculates the amount of work scheduled for the