Microsoft Project Introduction

• About task durations
• Entering task durations
• Displaying critical tasks
• Checking Project Status
• Understanding Project slack
• Entering milestones

Microsoft Project Basics

• Overview of MS Project
• Views
• About MS Project tables
• Working with tables
• The Gantt Chart View
• Menus
• Toolbars
• Working with existing Project files
• Exiting from MS Project

Creating Relationships

• About creating relationships
• 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
• Lag time
• Lead time

Creating Tasks

• About creating tasks
• The Rostadium project phases
• Reviewing the project
• Entering tasks
• Creating summary tasks
• Assignment – creating summary tasks
• Moving about a sheet
• Working with summary tasks

• Working with multiple documents
• Project Management Tools
• The Pros and cons of using MS Project

• Creating a resource pool
• Entering materials
• Assigning calendars to resources
• Adjusting and about resource information
• Changing the unit display

• Assigning resources using task entry view
• Assigning part time resources
• Resource work pattern
• Assignment – contouring work hours
• Assigning specific work times
• Assigning resources in task information
• Assigning resources in a sheet
• Assigning resources that you don’t have

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

• About resource leveling
• Creating resource chaos
• Tracking down over allocations
• Changing work effort
• About and assigning overtime
• Hiring contract labour
• Switching work assignments

• Costing overview
• Working and assignment – variable resource costs
• Assigning daily costs for equipment hire
• Assigning resource usage costs
• Assigning fixed costs
• Using multiple cost tables
• Assigning multiple cost rate tables
• Changing resources rates during a project
• Viewing costs

• About constraints and deadlines
• Reviewing our project
• Adding a constraint
• Using elapsed time to resolve conflicts
• Creating a deadline

• 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

• About new projects
• Understanding your project
• Creating a new project
• Saving a new project file
• MS Project options
• About the standard calendars
• Setting nonworking time – standard calendar
• Setting non default working time
• Creating public holidays
• Creating a new calendar
• Specifying project summary information
• Specifying project information

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

• Printing a Gantt Chart
• Printing Sheet Views
• Printing jobs for resources
• Printing resources for tasks