Prerequisites

Prerequisites
Familiarity with the Windows operating system is essential.

Who Should Take This Course
Professionals who want to learn the basics of Project

Course Objectives

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will have learned how to:

1. Create a basic project schedule with tasks and task relationships.
2. Edit and organize your project.
3. Assign resources to the tasks in your project.
4. Use Project views to get information about your project.
5. Format your project.
6. Print views, calendars, and reports.

Course Outline

Course Outline

Exploring the Project Interface

• The Microsoft Project Work Environment
• Working with Existing Files

Creating and Scheduling a New Project

• Project Information
• Change the Project Working Times
• The Gantt Chart View
• Saving Projects

Working With Tasks 

• Task Durations
• Task Information
• Priorities
• Changing Task Priority

Working with Task Dependencies 

• Link tasks in the Gantt Chart view
• Lead and Lag Time

Working with Resources 

• Understanding the Resource Sheet View
• Adding resources to your project
• Adding Rates
• Assigning Units
• deciding how resources are paid using Accrue At

Assigning Resources 

• Understanding Task Types
• Assigning a Resource to a Task
• Viewing Full Resource Details

Setting the Critical Path 

• Highlighting the critical path
• Showing only the critical path

Overallocations 

• Resource Usage View
• Resource Allocation View
• Resource Allocation Graph

Enhancing Your Project

• Changing the colour, shape, or pattern of Gantt bars
• Changing the Gantt bars quickly using a style
• Creating a new type of Gantt bar
• Adding text to Gantt bars
• Adding Specific Gantt bar
• Changing the height of Gantt bars
• Changing the appearance of link lines between Gantt bars

Printing Project Reports

• Printing a basic report
• Adding a header, footer, or legend to a view