Objectives
By the end of the session you will feel comfortable within the Project management environment and be able to create and manage simple projects. You will be able to produce more complicated projects and feel comfortable tracking and resolving conflicts. You will be able to publish projects, share information, create, manage and track projects plus provide status information.
Pre-requisites: This course is designed for newcomers to Microsoft Project and Project Management and assumes no previous experience.
- Fundamentals of Project Management
- The Project Interface
- The Backstage View (2010)
- Review of terms e.g. Gantt Chart, task, critical path, and resource.
- Setting the Base Calendar/Working Hours
- Outlining
- Outlining Tasks (indent and outdent)
- Collapsing and Expanding the Outline
- Calendars
- Creating Individual Resource Calendars
- Assigning a New Base Calendar
- Tasks
- Task Mode (2010 only)
- Entering Tasks/Milestones and Recurring Tasks
- Entering Durations
- Adjusting Tasks
- Task Linking and Unlinking
- Task Relationships
- Lag and Lead-Time
- Constraints and Deadlines
- Critical Path
- Viewing the Critical Path
- Viewing Slack Time
- Shortening the Critical Path
- Views
- Changing Views and View Scale
- Formatting Bars, Text and Gridlines
- Printing a View
- Resources
- Creating a Resource List
- Assigning Work Resources
- Assigning Material Resources
- Changing Task Types
- Adjusting Resources
- Resolving Over Allocation
- Levelling Resources
- Setting Task Priorities
- Costs
- Entering Standard, Overtime and Cost per use rates
- Create a Resource Rate Table
- Assign Fixed Task and Fixed Material Costs
- Viewing Costs
- Baselines & Tracking Progress
- Creating a Baseline
- Viewing the Tracking Gantt
- Recording Actual work performed
- Reports
- Standard Reports
- Visual Reports (2007 & 2010)
