Microsoft Project 2000: Introduction To Microsoft Project

Overview/Description
Developing a new product, implementing a training program, creating a new marketing plan, starting a new business or even landscaping a yard are some of the complex projects that people deal with professionally and personally. Learning to manage the scope, time, cost, and quality of a project is essential. With this course you will learn to use Microsoft Project 2000, the perfect project management tool, to schedule and track tasks; exchange project information with your team and managers; analyze tasks, deadline, and resources; and compare budget to actual requirements.

Target Audience
Business professionals at all levels who manage complex projects.

Expected Duration
Up to 4 hours, including the practice exercises

Objectives:

Introducing Project Fundamentals

  • Identify planning steps to help you develop your Project schedule
  • Start Project
  • Identify the elements of the Project window
  • Work with views
  • Use the Office Assistant
  • Use Dialog Box Help and What's This? Help
  • Access the Help Topics Window
  • Use Planning Wizards
  • Create a new Project file
  • Save a Project file
  • Open an existing Project file
  • Close a Project file
  • Exit Project

    • Working With Project Tasks

  • Enter tasks
  • Enter durations
  • Create summary tasks
  • Create subtasks
  • Enter milestones
  • Insert tasks
  • Edit tasks
  • Delete tasks
  • Copy and move tasks
  • Identify task relationships
  • Create a Finish-to-Start relationship

    • Working With Resources

  • Plan your resources
  • Set up work resources
  • Set up material resources
  • Insert and delete resources
  • Customize a Resource Sheet
  • Assign a resource to a task
  • View a task's Scheduling Formula
  • Recalculate changing schedules
  • Remove a Resource Assignment
  • Enter costs for a resource
  • Assign accrual methods
  • View resource costs

    • Tracking, Viewing, and Printing a Project Schedule

  • Save a baseline
  • Update completed tasks
  • Update tasks with actual values
  • Display the Tracking Gantt Chart
  • Display the Detail Gantt bar chart
  • Display project variances
  • Preview a project before printing
  • Print a view
  • Print a report


    • Course Number: MOFF0151