MS Project (Planning A Project)

This one day course has been designed to introduce the concepts of planning using Microsoft Project as the planning tool. Participants will be guided through Project’s tools for planning a project and setting it up. 

Participants will learn how to plan a project, how to enter tasks and resources, how to identify constraints and deadlines and also to identify the critical path of the project. Students also gain hands-on experience using the different views available for the project. 

Prerequisites:

A basic understanding of planning techniques.
Familiarity with other MS Office applications would be helpful

Objectives:

• Understand Planning Methodology
• Set up a Project calendar.
• Enter and manipulate Tasks
• View Projects using different views
• Enter and manipulate Resources.
• Report and print.

Course Outline:

• Planning the Project
• Basic Planning Methodology
• Task Information Dialog Box
• Saving the Project
• Setting up the Calendar
• Setting up the Project Calendar
• Modifying the Project Calendar
• Setting the Project start date
• Tasks
• Entering tasks
• Editing tasks
• Creating Summary Tasks
• Duration
• Task Calendars
• Task relationships
• Lag and Lead
• Milestones
• Constraints and Deadlines
• Critical Path
• Viewing Data
• Network Diagrams and Calendar Views
• Navigating within Project
• Resources
• Entering resources
• Applying Costs to the Project
• Material Resources
• Assigning Resources
• Task Type vs Effort Driven Scheduling
• Identifying Resource overallocations
• Reports and Printing
• Reports
• Printing the Gantt Chart