Microsoft Project Basics

• Overview of Microsoft Project
• Getting acquainted with the Microsoft Project screen
• Working with views
• Working with combination views
• Working with tables
• Working with the Gantt chart view
• Understanding Microsoft Project menus
• Understanding toolbars
• Working with existing project files
• Exiting from Microsoft Project

Help!

• Printed help sources
• Using project help
• Working with the office assistant

Creating A New Project

• New project overview
• Understanding your project
• Creating a new project
• Saving a new project file
• Setting specific options
• Pitfalls in changing options
• Adjusting the standard calendars
• Creating public holidays
• Creating a new calendar
• Specifying project summary information
• Specifying project information

Project Management

• What is a project?
• Tasks and resources
• The importance of planning
• Steps in project management
• Project management tools
• Using a computer
• The advantages and disadvantages of Microsoft Project

Creating Tasks

• Overview of creating tasks
• Reviewing the project
• Entering tasks
• Creating summary tasks
• Moving about a sheet
• Working with summary tasks

Task Durations

• Task duration overview
• Entering task durations
• Displaying critical tasks
• Checking project status
• Understanding project slack
• Entering milestones

Creating Relationships

• Overview of creating relationships
• Catching up with the case study
• Creating relationships using the link tool
• Creating relationships using task entry
• Using task information for relationships
• Creating relationships in a sheet
• Keeping to schedule using
• Relationships
• Entering lag time
• Entering lead time

Resourcing a Project

• Overview of resourcing
• Creating a resource pool
• Entering materials
• Assigning calendars to resources
• Adjusting resource information
• Changing the unit display

Assignment Concepts

• Understanding resource assignment
• Project's calculation methodologies
• Understanding effort
• Creating simple assignments
• Understanding task types
• Working with fixed unit assignments
• Working with fixed duration assignments
• Working with fixed work
• Assignments
• Working with the driver resource
• Understanding effort driven resourcing
• Disabling effort driven resourcing

Assigning Resources

• Overview of assigning resources
• Assigning resources using task entry view
• Assigning part time resources
• Contouring resource usage
• Assigning specific work times
• Problem assignments
• Assigning resources in task information
• Assigning resources in a sheet
• Assigning resources that you don't have

Resource Levelling

• Resource levelling overview
• Creating resource chaos
• Tracking down over-allocations
• Fix 1: changing work effort
• Fix 2: assigning overtime
• Fix 3: hiring contract labour
• Fix 4: switching work assignments
• Fix 5: rescheduling tasks

Assigning Materials

• Overview of assigning materials
• Assigning fixed material consumption
• Contouring materials usage
• Adding more material resources
• Assigning variable usage materials
• Adding to a material assignment
• Checking work for materials

Costs

• Costing overview
• Reviewing the current cost status
• Variable resource costs
• Assigning daily costs for equipment hire
• Assigning resource usage costs
• Assigning fixed costs
• Assigning material costs
• Using multiple cost tables
• Changing resources rates during a project
• Viewing costs

Constraints & Deadlines

• Overview of constraints & deadlines
• Reviewing our project
• Adding a constraint
• Using elapsed time to resolve conflicts
• Creating a deadline

Project Monitoring

• Overview of project monitoring
• Creating a baseline
• Getting project to update progress
• Manually updating task progress
• Entering delayed tasks
• Tracking actuals on a Gantt chart
• Using the tracking box
• Viewing task slippage

Printing

• Overview of printing
• Printing a Gantt chart
• Printing sheet views
• Printing jobs for resources
• Printing resources for task