Microsoft Office Project - Introduction
1 Day Duration
Overview
This introductory course is aimed at users who have little or no previous working knowledge of Microsoft Office Project. This will provide delegates with hands on experience of project planning, working through the application to create a project plan from scratch. The course looks at all aspects of the project design and looks at reporting tools.
Introducing Project
Menus
Toolbars – standard and formatting
Gantt Chart View
Status Bar and scroll bars
Task Pane
Timescales with Project
Project Planning
Project features
Project constraints
Time
Features
Costs
Defining Parameters
Identifying tasks and resources
Setting Project Parameters
Project Calendars
Default
Individual project
Resources
Working and non-working times
Working with Tasks
Entering tasks into a Project
Tasks V Milestones
Tasks Notes
Linking items to tasks
Setting task durations
Setting task relationships
Outlining a project
Work breakdown structure
Task constraints
The critical path
Working With Resources
Creating the resource pool
Choosing task type by resource
Linking items to resources
Assigning resources to tasks
Project Charts and Reports
Saving projects for the first time
Saving changes
The Gantt chart
The Network (PERT) Diagram
Overview reports
Current activities reports
Cost reports
Assignment reports
Workload reports
Setting the Project Baseline