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Managing Time-Constrained Projects with Microsoft Project

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Overview

Learn how to manage projects with time constraints and fast-track schedules with Microsoft Project.

Syllabus

Introduction

Welcome
Using the exercise files

1. Checking Your Project Schedule

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

2. Reviewing the Schedule

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

3. Shortening the Schedule

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

4. Executing the Schedule

Resetting a baseline
Entering actuals for a time-constrained project

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

John Riopel and Bonnie Biafore

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