Project 2010/13/16 Planning a Project

Prerequisite: Has attended a Widows course or has confidence using a keyboard and mouse.

Duration: One day

Course Topics

Planning basics
* Planning the project
* Basic planning methodology

Overview of Microsoft project
* Data storage
* Tables
* Task and resource tables
* Charts
* Forms

Calendars
* Scheduling calendar
* Creating project and scheduling calendar

Tasks
* Entering and editing tasks
* Inserting/ cutting copying tasks
* Summary tasks

Task Duration
* Working time duration
* Elapsed durations
* Estimated duration
* Milestones
* Constraints and deadlines

Task relationships
* Types of relationships
* Lag and lead
* Critical path

Viewing data
* Network diagram and calendar views
* Navigating within project

Resources
* Entering resources
* Applying costs to the project
* Material resources
* Equipment and machinery resources

Assigning resources
* Effort driven scheduling

Identifying resource over allocations
* Resource views

Reports and printing
* Gantt chart
* Resource and task tables
* Standard reports