What you'll learn:
- Explain what Project for the Web is and why it is useful
- Compare Planner, Project for the Web, and Project Online
- Differentiate between the different Project Plans
- Create a plan in Microsoft Planner from scratch and from an Outlook group
- Navigate the Project for the Web interface
- Import a project from Project Online
- Create a Project from a template and from scratch
- Visualize project plans in a Microsoft Teams channel
- Create a connection between Power BI and Project for the Web (Dataverse)
- Publish a report to the Power BI service
**This course includes downloadable instructor files and exercise files to work with and follow along.**
Are you an ‘accidental’ project manager who finds Project Online to be too complex for your needs? Maybe you are a manager of a small team looking for a simple, online tool to manage small to mid-size projects and task lists? If so, the latest addition to Microsoft’s family of Project products, ‘Project for the Web’ might be the answer to your prayers!
Project for the Web is the perfect tool for teams looking for a project management tool that has a simple interface, is integrated with Microsoft 365 applications, is collaborative, and gets the job done without the need for extensive training.
Project for the Web fills a gap. If you find Microsoft Planner too basic for your needs but Project Online too complex and expensive, then Project for the Web is for you. Built on the Power Platform, Project for the Web harnesses the strength of Power Apps, such as Power Automate and Power BI, to add an additional layer of automation and reporting capabilities.
In this course, we will explore the basic project offerings from Microsoft. We’ll start out by looking at Microsoft Planner. As a free app that’s included with our Microsoft 365 subscription, we can use Planner to manage, assign and monitor team tasks.
Too basic for your needs? Consider Project for the Web. We will run through all the different ways we can create new projects including creating a project from scratch and using built-in templates. You’ll learn how to add tasks, give the project structure with summary and subtasks, create dependencies, assign buckets and labels, and view our project Gantt chart in the timeline view. We’ll also check out how to create roadmaps to have visibility across all projects we are managing.
In the final section, we will look at creating Power BI reports based on our Project for the Web data. We’ll see how to create a link to the Dataverse, download and modify the Power BI report template, modify and format visualizations, build our own custom reports, and how to share our reports by publishing them as dashboards to the Power BI service.
If you would like to follow along with the Project for the Web and Power BI sections of this course, you will need to make sure you have the relevant subscriptions to these applications.
In this course, students will learn how to:
Explain what Project for the Web is and why it is useful
Compare Planner, Project for the Web, and Project Online
Differentiate between the different Project Plans
Microsoft Planner
Create a plan in Microsoft Planner from scratch and from an Outlook group
Add members to a plan
Create and edit task details
Organize tasks into buckets and assign labels
Update task progress and priority
Attach files to tasks
Access plans from Microsoft Teams
Use Smart Backgrounds
Export a plan to Excel
Project for the Web
Navigate the Project for the Web interface
Import a project from Project Online
Create a Project from a template and from scratch
Customize column headings.
Set the Start and End dates of a Project
Create new tasks and assign members to tasks
Add structure with summary and subtasks
Use Timeline view to modify tasks
Update task progress
Add attachments, notes, and checklist items
Group tasks into custom buckets
Create task dependencies
Categorize tasks with labels
Hide and remove columns
Share projects and tasks with others
Visualize project plans in a Microsoft Teams channel
Create a project roadmap
Project for the Web: Reporting with Power BI
Create a connection between Power BI and Project for the Web (Dataverse)
Locate and download the Power BI reporting template
Navigate the Power BI interface
Understand how visualizations are built and formatted
Create slicers to filter report data
Work with tables and matrix tables
Update/refresh report data
Build a custom report
Publish a report to the Power BI service
Create a dashboard to display key metrics.
This course includes:
5+ hours of video tutorials
59 individual video lectures
Course and exercise files to follow along
Certificate of completion
