Microsoft Project 2013 - Introduction
This course has been designed for users who are new to Microsoft Project, and covers navigating around the application, starting a new project, setting up a project schedule, calendars, task lists, task dependencies, Gantt charts and more.
Description
Course Content Overview:
- Introduction to MS Project
- Planning the Project
- Understanding Project Management
- Understanding the Project Database
- What’s New in Project 2016
- Understanding the Project 2016 Screen
- Using Common and More Views
- Creating a New Project
- Saving and Sharing your Project
- Selecting the Project Scheduling Date
- Selecting the Project Calendar
- Adjusting Working Hours and Days
- Creating a New Calendar
- Entering the Task List
- Entering the Task List
- Estimating and entering Task Duration
- Entering a Milestone
- Organising Tasks into Phases
- Linking Tasks and editing Task Links
- Creating Recurring Tasks
- Using Task Notes
- Moving, Copying, Inserting and Deleting a Task
- Entering and Assigning Resources
- Entering various Resources
- Adjusting Individual Resource Working Schedules
- Using Resource Notes
- Understanding Effort Driven Scheduling
- Assigning Resources to Tasks
- Viewing the Project
- Using Split Views
- Sorting, Grouping and Filtering Information
- Using Zoom
- Working with Tasks
- Changing Task Scheduling Mode
- Overlapping and Delaying Tasks
- Tracing Task Paths
- Setting Task Deadlines and Constraints
- Splitting Tasks
- Understanding Task Type
- Assigning a Task Calendar
- Updating Project Progress
- Saving a Baseline Plan
- Updating the Entire Project
- Updating Task Actual Values
- Updating Actual Work and Costs
- Checking Project Progress
- Viewing Project Statistics and Costs
- Viewing the Project’s Critical Path
- Checking Variance
- Identifying Slipped Tasks
- Working with Reports
- Opening a Report
- Adding Page Elements to a Report