Microsoft Project 98: Schedule, Resources, and Project Management

Overview/Description
This course, Microsoft Project 98: Schedule, Resources, and Project Management, introduces basic Microsoft Project concepts, including examining Microsoft Project features, creating and modifying schedules, scheduling resources and costs, analyzing a schedule, and tracking project progress.

Target Audience
Although no prior knowledge of project management software is required, you should be familiar with the basic concepts of project management and general computer operations before beginning this course.

Expected Duration
This course, including the practice exercises, will take up to 4 hours to complete.

Objectives:

Working with Project 98

  • Start Project 98
  • Open a project
  • Navigate in Gantt Chart view
  • Display help information

    • Creating a Project Schedule

  • Create a new schedule
  • Modify a schedule
  • Create task relationships
  • Modify the schedule outline

    • Scheduling Resources and Costs

  • Assign resources
  • Modify project calendars
  • Assign resource costs
  • Assign a fixed rate
  • View project statistics

    • Analyzing a Project Schedule

  • Display different views and apply tables
  • Filter tasks and resources
  • Work with the critical path
  • Work with overallocated resources

    • Tracking Project Progress

  • Update a project schedule
  • Track project progress
  • Track project variances


    • Course Number: MOFF0051