Project Introduction Course Details

Project management concepts

• Starting Project

• Project opening screen

• What is project management?

• What is a project?

• Project objectives

• Project methodologies

• Project Map

• Outlining

• Work breakdown structure 

• Planning lifecycle

Getting started with Project

• Gantt Chart view 

• Menus o Shortcut menus

• Toolbars

• Opening a project file

• Using the Gantt Chart view

• Outline numbers and WBS codes

• Task information form

• Tables

• System options

Starting a new project

• Overview of project planning o Project dialogue box

• File properties dialogue box

• Calendars

• Outlining the plan

• Moving tasks

• Creating a summary task

• Task notes

• Saving the project

• Outlining and editing techniques

Scheduling with dates

• Using Save As

• Entering dates

• Removing date constraints

Estimating timescales

• Entering durations

• Formatting timescales

• Scheduling a date constraint

• The constraint dates table

• Deadlines 

Scheduling with dependencies

• Critical path analysis

• Gantt Chart view

• Total and free slack

• Types of dependency

• Entering dependencies

• Editing dependency links

• Displaying the project summary task

Scheduling issues

• Scheduling to deadlines and constraints

• Reviewing the critical path

• Creating recurring tasks

• Splitting tasks

Assigning resources

• What is resource scheduling?

• Using the resource sheet

• Using resource information

• Basic resource assignments

• Auto Filters

• Part-time resource assignments

• Multiple assignments on tasks

• Assignments for summary tasks

Publishing views and reports

• Printing the Gantt Chart view

• Controlling multiple pages

• Headers, footers and legends

• Print dialogue box

• Printing reports

• Custom reports

• Printing task notes with Gantt Charts

• Publishing and viewing HTML documents

Managing changes

• Baselining the plan

• How Autolinking affects changes

• Changing the current date

• Entering percent complete

• Rescheduling outstanding work