Microsoft Project Online Training

Microsoft Project is a powerful application that helps users plan and manages a wide range of projects; from meeting critical deadlines and budgets to choosing the right resources, users can be more productive and achieve better results using the project proposal feature set. Managing a project is the most critical factor in its success or failure. According to statistics, most projects are not completed on time or at the specified cost and quality, and usually, the main cause of this failure is poor project management. Planning and controlling a project without the right tools are not easy tasks, and Project is one of the best tools.

This course will introduce the students to the Microsoft Project platform. Students will get familiar with the Project interface and learn about planning principles. They will learn how to build, format, and customize a new plan, set up resources, assign resources to tasks, track progress, and view and print their plans. Students will learn about Project reports and their customization, task information and scheduling, defining and allocating resources, organizing plan details, etc. By the end of this course, students will be able to use Project as an excellent tool for project planning. They can manage their projects and plans, customize them, and track their progress.

Learning outcomes

• Learn about project planning
• Get familiar with principles of project planning
• Learn how to build a new plan
• Learn to format and customize a plan
• Learn to build a task list
• Learn to set up resources
• Learn to track progress
• Learn to view plans
• Get familiar with reports and customize them
• Learn about task scheduling
• Learn how to define and allocate resources
• Get familiar with advanced scheduling techniques
• Learn to customize a project

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Intro to Course

• 1.1. Welcome!
• 1.2. About TechClass Office Product...
• 1.3. Learning Outcomes
• 1.4. Your Expectations, Goals, and Knowledge
• 1.5. Abbreviations
• 1.6. Copyright Notice

Chapter 2: Introduction to Microsoft Project

• 2.1. What is Microsoft Project?
• 2.2. What is Project Planning?

Chapter 3: Get Started with Project

• 3.1. Get Started with Project
• 3.2. Title Bar
• 3.3. Quick Access Toolbar
• 3.4. Ribbon, File Tab, and Timeline
• 3.5. Work Area and Status Bar

Chapter 4: Principles of Project Planning

• 4.1. Project Planning Life Cycle
• 4.2. Project Scheduling Rules
• 4.3. WBS
• 4.4. Quiz

Chapter 5: Build a New Plan

• 5.1. Create a New File
• 5.2. Save and Save As
• 5.3. Open and Close a Project
• 5.4. Share
• 5.5. Export
• 5.6. Set Project Information
• 5.7. Plan Properties
• 5.8. Quiz

Chapter 6: Format and Customize Your Plan

• 6.1. Customize Font
• 6.2. Cut, Copy, and Paste
• 6.3. Find and Replace
• 6.4. Spell Check
• 6.5. Undo and Redo

Chapter 7: Build a Task List and Milestone

• 7.1. Create Tasks
• 7.2. Enter Task Durations and Dates
• 7.3. Enter Milestone for Tasks
• 7.4. Add Task to Timeline
• 7.5. Link Tasks to Create Dependencies
• 7.6. Document Task Information

Chapter 8: Set up and Assign Resources

• 8.1. Set up Work Resources
• 8.2. Resource's Working Capacity
• 8.3. Set up Cost Resources
• 8.4. Assign Resources to Tasks
• 8.5. Quiz

Chapter 9: Track Progress

• 9.1. Progress Tracking and Baseline
• 9.2. View the Tracking Gantt Chart
• 9.3. Track a Plan as Scheduled
• 9.4. Enter Actual Values for Tasks

Chapter 10: Track Progress

• 10.1. Views
• 10.2. Add New View
• 10.3. Split Screens
• 10.4. Customize a Gantt Chart View
• 10.5. Quiz

Chapter 11: Reports

• 11.1. Project Overview and Burndown Report
• 11.2. Cost and Resource Report
• 11.3. Customize a Report

Chapter 12: Print

• 12.1. Print and Preview
• 12.2. General Print Settings

Chapter 13: Task Information

• 13.1. Calendar Settings
• 13.2. Working Time for Individual Tasks
• 13.3. Work Breakdown Structure
• 13.4. Recurring Task
• 13.5. Task Splitting

Chapter 14: Task Scheduling

• 14.1. Effort-Driven Scheduling
• 14.2. Task Types
• 14.3. Task Inspector
• 14.4. Milestone
• 14.5. Deadline
• 14.6. Linked Copy
• 14.7. Quiz

Chapter 15: Define and Allocate Resources

• 15.1. Resource’s Working Capacity
• 15.2. Set up Cost Resources
• 15.3. Resource Availability
• 15.4. Multiple Resource Pays Rates
• 15.5. Fixed Cost

Chapter 16: Advanced Scheduling Techniques

• 16.1. Task Relationships Using Task Path
• 16.2. Set up Task Link Relationships
• 16.3. Establish Task Dependencies
• 16.4. Task Scheduling with Constraints

Chapter 17: Detailed Techniques for Tracking Progress

• 17.1. Update a Baseline and Interim
• 17.2. Tracking Work for Tasks and Assignments
• 17.3. Reschedule Incomplete Work
• 17.4. Identify Tasks that Have Slipped
• 17.5. Critical Path

Chapter 18: Customize Reports

• 18.1. Create Custom Report
• 18.2. Customize Charts in a Report
• 18.3. Customize Tables in a Report
• 18.4. Visual Report
• 18.5. Quiz

Chapter 19: Organize Plan Details

• 19.1. Views
• 19.2. Tables
• 19.3. Add or Edit Tables
• 19.4. Sort Plans
• 19.5. Filter Plans
• 19.6. Group Plans
• 19.7. Quiz

Chapter 20: Print and Format Views

• 20.1. Calendar View
• 20.2. Gantt Chart View
• 20.3. Timeline View
• 20.4. Network Diagram View
• 20.5. Print Views

Chapter 21: Customize a Project

• 21.1. Organize and Manage Elements
• 21.2. Macro
• 21.3. User Interface Customization
• 21.4. Share Information with Other Programs
• 21.5. Consolidate Plans

Chapter 22: Agile Project Management

• 22.1. Agile Project Management
• 22.2. Create an Agile Schedule with Project
• 22.3. Manage Sprints
• 22.4. Task Board Report

Chapter 23: Help

• 23.1. Help
• 23.2. Feedback
• 23.3. Show Training

Chapter 24: Final Tasks

• 24.1.Final Project

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