Learn how to manage projects with time constraints and fast-track schedules with Microsoft Project.
Managing Time-Constrained Projects with Microsoft Project
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Making tasks automatically scheduled or manually scheduled
- Checking task links
- Adding lag or lead between tasks
- What does the Deadline field do?
- Tracking deadlines with formatted taskbars
- Adding buffers to your schedule
- Managing buffers
- Displaying the critical path and slack
- Fixing an incomplete critical path
- Filtering to show the critical path
- Filtering to show multiple critical paths
- Setting a baseline
- Looking for schedule problems
- Fast-tracking tasks
- Adjusting lag time between tasks
- Understanding crashing
- Finding the best tasks to crash
- Adding resources to tasks to shorten duration
- Using different resources to shorten duration
- Reducing scope
- Working with a task calendar
- Resetting a baseline
- Entering actuals for a time-constrained project
- Next steps
Taught by
John Riopel and Bonnie Biafore
