Course Description
Microsoft Project is a project management software program that is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads. This course is designed specifically to teach students the fundamentals of working with Microsoft Project. Students will learn to work with task, resource, and other views, and work with tables. Students will then create a new project plan, set plan properties, create and customize a plan calendar. Additionally, the student will add tasks, create recurring task, import tasks from Excel and Outlook, create a work breakdown structure, link tasks and create dependencies, and modify task properties. Then students will create resources, work with a resource pool, modify resource calendars, and assign resources. Finally, students will prepare a project plan for finalization.
Instructor: Ed McCrae
Student data files are available under Downloads in the course dashboard.
What am I going to get from this course?
- Get an Overview of the Project Environment
- Work with Tasks
- Work with Project Resources
- Prepare a Project Plan for Finalization
Prerequisites and Target Audience
What will students need to know or do before starting this course?
Who should take this course? Who should not?
Students looking to get started with Project 2016
Curriculum
Resource 1
Student Data Files
Module 2: Getting Started with Microsoft Project
Lecture 2
Overview of Microsoft Project
Lecture 3
The Microsoft Project Ribbon
Lecture 4
Working with Task Views
Lecture 5
Working with Resource Views
Lecture 6
Working with More Views
Lecture 7
Working with Tables
Lecture 8
Creating a New Project Plan
Lecture 9
Configuring the Project Information Window
Lecture 10
Using the Manual and Auto Schedule Task Tool
Lecture 11
Updating Project Plan Properties
Lecture 12
Creating a New Project Calendar
Lecture 13
Customizing a Project Calendar
Lecture 14
Applying a Custom Calendar to the Project
Module 3: Working with Tasks
Lecture 15
Creating New Tasks
Lecture 16
Creating Recurring Tasks
Lecture 17
Importing Tasks from Excel
Lecture 18
Importing Outlook Tasks
Lecture 19
Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
Lecture 20
Overview of Task Dependencies
Lecture 22
Using Lag and Lead Time
Lecture 23
Working with Task Constraints
Lecture 24
Working with Task Deadlines
Lecture 25
Creating Task Notes
Lecture 26
Adding Tasks to the Timeline
Module 4: Working with Project Resources
Lecture 27
Resource Overview
Lecture 28
Creating Resources
Lecture 29
Importing Resource Information
Lecture 30
Connecting to a Resource Pool
Lecture 31
Working with Resource Calendars
Lecture 32
Assigning Resources to Tasks
Lecture 33
Assigning Multiple Resources
Lecture 34
Managing Resource Overallocations
Module 5: Preparing a Project Plan for Finalization
Lecture 35
Setting a Project Baseline
Lecture 36
Managing Gantt Chart Elements
Lecture 37
Formatting Gantt Chart Bars
Lecture 38
Sharing a Project Plan
