Microsoft Project Introduction

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Understand Project terminology
• Open and close Project plans
• Tell Me
• Modify the Project calendar
• Create Project plans
• Entering tasks
• User controlled scheduling
• Task durations
• Link tasks
• Task Inspector
• Understand resource over-allocations
• Set the Project baseline
• Use the tracking toolbar
• Tracking

Module 1: Getting Started

• Introduction to Microsoft Project
• Project terminology
• What is the Critical Path?
• Use of Baselines

Module 2: The Basics

• Opening and closing a Project plan
• Navigating the Project window
• Working with the ribbon
• Backstage view
• Tell me
• Zoom slider

Module 3: Creating a Project

• Set the project start date
• Working with the Project’s calendars
• Difference between individual and the Project calendars
• Entering non-working time
• Project properties
• Saving a Project

Module 4: Entering and Editing Tasks

• Understanding and specifying the task mode (manually scheduled or auto-scheduled)
• Adding auto-scheduled or manual tasks
• Entering task durations
• Visual highlight
• Adding milestones
• Reordering tasks
• Inserting and deleting tasks
• Reordering tasks
• Creating summary tasks (Outlining and WBS)
• Adding outline numbers and Project summary tasks
• Task priorities
• Task notes
• Inactive tasks

Module 5: Linking Tasks

• Understanding the types of links (relationships) between tasks
• Linking tasks
• Modifying task relationships
• Entering lead and lag times
• Split tasks
• Difference between deadlines and constraints
• Set a deadline
• Discuss types of constraints
• Set a constraint

Module 6: Resourcing the Project Plan

• Introducing the types of resources
• Adding resources
• Modifying the resource types
• Assigning resources to tasks

Module 7: Additional Resource Techniques

• Resource over-allocations
• Viewing resource assignments and finding over-allocations
• Task inspector
• Resource leveling
• Viewing the Project critical path
• Introduction to the Team planner

Module 8: Setting a Baseline

• When to set a baseline
• Set a baseline
• Clear a baseline

Module 9: Introduction to Tracking