Microsoft Project 2007

Duration

One day: 9.30am - 4.30pm
Description

MS Project is an application, which is designed to help managers organise their plan for a project into manageable groups of tasks. Microsoft Project offers features that make it dramatically easier to plan, manage, and communicate any kind of project.
Prerequisites

A basic understanding of Microsoft Windows.

Check points:

Although a knowledge of Project theory is unnecessary, it is useful as certain terms such as baseline are used in the course.

Agenda

Exercise	Details
Exercise 1	Creating a new project Setting start and finish dates
Exercise 2	Adding resources Creating a list of resources and adding resource details
Exercise 3	Creating new calendars Viewing the standard calendar Creating new resource calendars
Exercise 4	Entering tasks Entering a task list Assigning durations to tasks
Exercise 5	Re-ordering tasks Inserting, deleting and moving tasks
Exercise 6	Task information Viewing task information Attaching notes to tasks Linking documents to tasks
Exercise 7	Outlining the project Identifying summary tasks Creating milestones
Exercise 8	Relationships Creating relationships between tasks Identifying relationship types, for example, finish to start, start to start Creating lag and lead times
Exercise 9	Assigning resources Assigning resources to tasks Assigning multiple resources to tasks
Exercise 10	Baseline Creating a baseline for your project Updating your baseline
Exercise 11	Formatting the gantt chart Formatting the gantt chart Viewing baselines, critical tasks, slack time
Exercise 12	Managing and tracking the project Updating the project Marking tasks as complete Entering actual dates Viewing the tracking gantt chart
Exercise 13	Resource overallocation Dealing with resources overallocation Moving tasks Adding more resources Resource levelling
Exercise 14	Reports Viewing report layouts
Exercise 15	Printing Printing your gantt chart

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