From the course: Agile Project Management with Microsoft Project

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Project Online Desktop Client doesn't have built-in fields for feature points and priorities, which are key to determining which features to include in which sprints. However, you can use Custom fields for points and priorities, and then add values to the features in your project. Here we're looking at our agile project in the Sprint Planning sheet. The Sprint Planning Sheet is a table-oriented view, and that's going to make it easy to add values to all of the features in our project. But first, we have to create the Custom fields. To do that, go to the Project tab, and in the Properties section, click Custom fields. In the Custom fields dialog box, head over to the Type drop-down list and choose Number. I'm going to start with #3. Select that in the list, click Rename, and let's name it C-Points and press Okay. You might wonder, why the C-? I like to name all of my Custom fields starting with C- because that makes it easy to find the Custom fields in the long list of fields in…

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