MICROSOFT PROJECT ONLINE TRAINING

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Topics

1

Introduction to Project Management & Concepts

2

Introduction to Microsoft Project

• Explore the Project user interface
• Manage files and set options in the Backstage view
• Work with schedule details in views

3

Setup a New Plan

• Create a new plan and set its start date
• Set nonworking days in the project calendar
• Enter the plan title and other properties

4

Build a task list

• Create tasks
• Enter task duration and dates
• Enter milestone tasks
• Create summary tasks to outline the plan
• Link tasks to create dependencies
• Switch task scheduling from manual to automatic
• Check a plan’s duration and finish date
• Document task information

5

Set up resources

• Set up work resources
• Enter the maximum capacity for work resources
• Enter work resource pay rates
• Adjust working time in a resource calendar
• Set up cost resources

6

Assign resources to tasks

• Assign work resources to tasks
• Control work when adding or removing resource assignments
• Assign cost resources to tasks
• Check the plan after assigning resources

7

Formatting and sharing a plan

• Customize a Gantt chart view
• Add tasks to a Timeline view
• Customize reports
• Copy views and reports
• Print views and reports

8

Tracking progress

• Understand progress tracking
• Save a baseline of your plan
• Track a plan as scheduled
• Enter a task’s completion percentage
• Enter actual values for tasks
• Update a baseline
• Track actual and remaining work for tasks and assignments

9

Fine-tune task scheduling

• Adjust task link relationships
• Control task scheduling by using constraints
• Adjust working time for individual tasks
• Control task scheduling by using task types
• Create and assign material resources
• Examine resource allocations over time
• Resolve resource over allocations manually

10

Fine-tune task details

• Enter deadline dates
• Create a recurring task
• View the plan’s critical path
• Schedule summary tasks manually

11

Fine-tune resource and assignment details

• Change resource availability over multiple date ranges
• Work with multiple resource pay rates
• Change resource pay rates over different date ranges
• Delay the start of assignments
• Apply contours to assignments
• Create and assign material resources
• View resource capacity
• Adjust assignments in the Team Planner view

12

Fine-tune the Project plan

• Examine resource allocations over time
• Resolve resource over allocations manually
• Level over allocated resources
• Check the plan’s cost and finish date
• Inactivate tasks

13

Organize plan details

• Sort plan details
• Group plan details
• Filter plan details
• Create new tables
• Create new views

14

Track progress

• Update a baseline
• Track actual and remaining work for tasks and assignments
• Track time phased actual work for tasks and assignments
• Reschedule incomplete work

15

View and report project status

• Examine a plan’s variance
• Identify tasks that have slipped
• Examine task costs
• Examine resource costs

16

Format reports

• Create a custom report
• Customize charts in a report
• Customize tables in a report

17

Share information with other programs

• Copy Project data to and from other programs
• Open files in other formats in Project
• Save to other file formats from Project
• Generate reports with Excel and Visio

18

Consolidate projects and resources

• Share a resource pool across multiple plans
• Consolidate plans
• Create dependencies between plans