Microsoft Project Introduction to MS Project Online

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Customise and schedule tasks and resources
• Optimise projects through planning
• Track and analyse project progress
• Create customised reports

Project and project terms

• Brief overview of how microsoft project relates to project management
• Microsoft terminology

Creating project and resource calendars

• Set the default working hours & week
• Alter hours of working day
• Set additional non-working days ie bank holidays
• Applying a calendar to a project
• Create a new project calendar
• Create a new resource calendar and assign to resources

Entering tasks

• Enter tasks, set durations and create milestones
• Manual vs automatic scheduling
• Task information dialog
• Create summary tasks
• Create project tasks
• Using the outline tools
• Add notes

Task relationships and critical path

• Finish to Start, Start to Finish, Finish to Finish and Start to Start
• Theory of critical path
• Showing the critical path
• Slack time
• Creating lead and lag time

Resources

• Enter resources
• Resource types
• Labels, names and groups
• Set costs, standard and overtime
• Cost per use
• Resource information dialog box
• Cost rate tables
• Fixed task costs
• Assigning resource calendars to resources
• Viewing availability
• Assign resources to tasks

Variance

• Setting a baseline
• Setting multiple baselines
• Measuring variance against baselines using the gantt chart
• Modifying the variance table to measure the required variance on the project

Task constraints & task management

• General (default) constraints
• Hard constraints
• Soft constraints
• Deadlines
• Remove deadlines / constraints
• Scheduling project from start date
• Scheduling project from finish date
• Fixed duration vs fixed units
• Create and assign task calendars

Project Costing

• Resource costs
• Duration driven
• Show project statistics for project cost and duration
• Show cost table (Gantt view)
• Identify over allocations
• Deal with over allocations

Tracking

• Setting a baseline
• Clearing a baseline
• Marking tasks % complete
• Using the tracking gantt to spot slippage
• Inactivate tasks
• Reschedule workload
• Measure tasks using the project status
• Splitting tasks

Sorting, grouping & filtering

• Sorting tasks by non-default sort order
• Apply grouping levels
• Use the autofilter
• Use In-built filters for filtering tasks

Reporting

• Customise project dashboards to measure required information showing
• Project overview
• Late tasks
• Milestones
• Tasks by resources

TimeLine

• View the timeline
• Add tasks to timeline
• Export to word/powerpoint

• 12 months online access to our Introduction to Microsoft Project e-learning

This course will be suitable for individuals who want to familiarise themselves and utilise Microsoft Project to create, build and modify project plans.

A good knowledge of Microsoft office products is desirable.