Overview
Course Instructor: Ashley Hunt
Course Outline
01. Navigating MS Project 2019
- The Task tab
- The Resource tab
- The Project tab
- The View tab
- The Format tab
- Display a View
02. Create and schedule a new project
- Define file properties for your project
- Manual and automatic scheduling overview
- How does the project start date affect the schedule?
- How do calendars affect the schedule?
- Set the working times for resources or tasks on the project
- Add a holiday to the project calendar
- Create a calendar for a task within Project
- Create a new task
- Create multiple tasks
- Create a recurring task
- Tips for working with tasks
- Choose a method to organize your tasks
- Task summary name field: New 2019
- Link tasks using a drop-down menu: New 2019
- Link tasks in the Gantt Chart view
- Link tasks in the Network Diagram view
- Link tasks in the Calendar view
- Turn autolinking on or off
- About linking manually scheduled tasks
- Constraints and deadlines
03. Add resources to your project
- Set the working times for resources or tasks on the project
- Effort driven scheduling and task types
- Enter cost rates for a work resource
- Enter a per-use cost for a work resource
- Enter a fixed cost for a task or for the project
- Enter costs for a cost resource
- Enter a rate for a material resource
- Enter a per-use cost for a material resource
04. View and track scheduling factors
- Find the critical path and slack
- Timeline bar labels and task progress: new 2019
- View team work
- Move a task to a different time in the schedule
- View and track scheduling factors
- Update actual start and finish dates
- Update actual work
- Update actual and remaining duration
- Update percent complete and percent work complete
- Quickly update tasks to 100% complete
- Quickly update tasks to scheduled percent complete
- Tracking performance with earned value
05. Creating reports
- Print a report
- Optimize a view for printing
- Print a basic report
- 06. Overview of master projects
- What are master projects?
- Work with subprojects in a master project
- How resources are affected when you combine files
- Create a resource pool for sharing resources across projects
Skills Learned
After completing this online training course, students will be able to:
- Setup a project
- Setup the schedule and calendar
- Create and work with tasks
- Add and work with resources
- Update durations and track performance
- Monitoring and controlling your project plan and providing reports to stakeholders
- Better understand master projects, work with subprojects, and create resource pools