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 organise 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 

• Inserting and organising tasks
• Creating a recurring task
• Inserting task durations
• Understanding the task information box
• Editing, deleting and moving tasks

Working with Task Dependencies 

• understanding dependencies
  • Finish to Start
  • Start-to-Start
  • Finish-to-Finish
  • Start-to-Finish
• Linking tasks to create dependencies
• Assigning lead and lag time

Working with Resources 

• Understanding the Resource Sheet view
• Entering resource information

Assigning Resources 

• Understanding Task types
• Assigning a Resource to a Task

Viewing the Critical Path

Over allocations 

• 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