Microsoft Project is project management software.
It gives you robust project management tools with the right blend of usability, power, and flexibility, so you can manage projects more efficiently and effectively. You can stay informed and control project work, schedules, and finances, keep project teams aligned, and be more productive through integration with familiar Microsoft Office system programs, powerful reporting, guided planning, and flexible tools.
Using Microsoft Project, determine the project goals and define the tasks. Next, add information about the sequence, duration, and relationships of the tasks. Then, assign people, equipment, resources and costs to the tasks. As you enter all of the information, Microsoft Project is calculating the project schedule.
Once the schedule has been determined, you can add, delete, or change any task information and Microsoft Project will recalculate the schedule to reflect the new data.
Users:
Admin, Creative, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Marketing and IT Professionals as well as anyone who needs create, track, update, publish and distribute tasks for a given project.
This course enables you to use Microsoft Project as an effective tool to manage projects more efficiently. Learn the concepts and skills required to plan, track, and report project information. In this hands-on course you will enter a project plan, analyze the plan and track progress.
Overview of Project Management and the use of Microsoft Project as a planning tool
Entering basic and overall project information: setting project preferences, setting the project calendar to reflect holidays and your corporate workdays
Entering/organizing summary tasks, subtasks and milestones in a project outline
Editing task information by cutting, copying, pasting and deleting tasks
Entering the task duration
Understanding the difference between task duration and resource work
Setting task dependencies
Assigning resources to tasks
Entering resource and material cost data
Using views and tables to analyze the critical path, slack time, and project delay schedule and applying this information to shorten the schedule, solve resource conflicts and reduce the project cost
Creating custom tables to view select data
Using the Microsoft Project filters to view subsets of project information
Creating custom filters to display specific tasks/resources for tables and reports
Using the Gantt Chart Wizard to format your project and then print the project information you want
Tracking the project progress by saving a baseline plan and entering actual data
Using the predefined Microsoft Project Reports
Sharing custom objects created for one project with another
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