Course Content
Getting Started
- Understanding project management terminology
- Different views in Microsoft Project
- Defining a project
- Defining general working timings and working days
Tasks
- Summary tasks and sub tasks
- Milestones and recurring tasks
- Task constraints
- Task Relationships
- Lag times and lead times
Resources
- Creating resources
- Customized calendars for different resources
- Defining working time and availability for resources
- Entering costs for resources
- Assigning resources to tasks
- Identifying and correcting resource over-allocations
- Resource availability graphs
Reviewing and Tracking the Project Plan
- Creating baselines
- Having multiple baselines for a project or for selected tasks
- Comparing versions
- Working with interim plans
- Tracking the project status
- Recording actual work for tasks
- Rescheduling uncompleted work
- Comparing actual details with the project baseline
- Checking or controlling progress
- Updating project progress
Views and Reports
- Using filters
- Creating custom filters
- Groupings in custom views
- Creating reports
- Creating custom tables
- Communicating project information
- Sharing custom views with the Organizer
- Sharing project information with other applications
- Using drawing tools
- Adding hyperlinks to tasks
Working with Multiple Projects
- Master projects and sub projects
- Working with resource pool
- Creating relationships between tasks in master projects and sub projects
