Microsoft Project Introduction
Course length: 1 day
Prerequisites: Windows Introduction or equivalent knowledge. Students should
have some project management experience and be familiar with terms such as Gantt
Chart, PERT Chart, task, critical path, and resource.
Overview: You will probably get the most out of this course if you want
to learn how to use Microsoft Project to assist you with project management.
Course content
Lesson 1: Introduction to Microsoft Project
- Fundamentals of project management
- Examining Microsoft Project
Lesson 2: Starting a project
- An overview of the planning process
- Defining project information
Lesson 3: Task relationships
- Linking tasks and observing the critical path
- Modifying task relationships
- Constraints
Lesson 4: Outlining
- Organizing the task list into an outline
- Viewing levels of detail
Lesson 5: Adding and assigning resources
- Creating and assigning a base calendar
- Entering and assigning resources
- Working with project costs
Lesson 6: Analyzing the project
- Resolving time restrictions
- Resolving resource conflicts
Lesson 7: Displaying project data
- Exploring views
- Generating project reports
Lesson 8: Sorting and filtering
- Sorting project data
- Filtering project data
- Creating custom filters
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