Learn how to use Microsoft Project, the world's leading project management software, and Project Online Desktop, the subscription version of the desktop app.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Getting started with Microsoft Project 2021
- What you need to know
- Understand the differences between Project editions
- An overview of the Project interface
- Manage files with the Backstage view
- Work with the Project ribbon
- Speed up work with the Quick Access Toolbar
- Display a different view
- Choose a different table
- Set helpful Project options
- Create and save a project
- Set up your project calendar
- Define holidays and nonworking time
- Match calendar options to your project calendar
- The difference between auto and manual scheduling
- Create an auto-scheduled task
- Create a manually scheduled task
- Create a milestone task
- Create a summary task
- Display summary tasks and subtasks
- Copy tasks from another program
- Organize the task list
- Delete tasks and summary tasks
- Work with work breakdown structure codes
- Link tasks to build a schedule
- Add lag or lead time to task links
- Set task dates to specific dates
- View tasks and task links
- Understanding resources
- Create a work resource
- Create a material resource
- Set up costs for work and material resources
- Create a cost resource
- Resource housekeeping
- Understand duration, work, and units
- Assign resources to tasks
- Use Team Planner to assign resources
- Find resource overallocations
- Use effort-driven and non-effort-driven scheduling
- Modify resource assignments
- Replace resources on a task
- Insert and rearrange table columns
- Change column settings in a table
- Use the Timeline view
- Create multiple timelines
- Sort tasks and resources
- Group tasks and resources
- Filter tasks and resources
- Review the critical path
- Identify schedule issues with Task Inspector
- Delay a task or assignment
- Inactivate tasks
- What are baseline, scheduled, and actual values?
- Save and clear a baseline
- Set up for recording progress
- Record progress
- Assign overtime
- Update costs
- Get a high-level view of project status
- Find schedule problems
- Look for cost problems
- Work with graphical reports
- Print views and reports
- New techniques
Taught by
Bonnie Biafore