Generating Default Phases that Include Estimates
The administrator has always had the ability to specify default phases for new projects by type. When someone is adding a new project, they can choose to generate the default phases and the system will create phases automatically based on whatever the administrator specified for this type of project. Those default phases may now include dates and hours. The administrator simply specifies what percentage of the project dates should be used before the default phase starts and/or stops. For example, specifying zero percent in the default phase start date will cause the generated phase to inherit the start date of the project. Specifying 25% will cause the phase to have a default date 25% of the way between the project’s start date and target date. This same principle applies to the target date and to the estimated hours for each phase. Note that as before these are simply defaults the project manager can generate on new projects and thus can be overridden as needed on a project by project basis.