1. Open Workbench By Wilmer Arellano Spring 2008

3. This is just an example, you can customize as you like.

4. In Favorites Gantt Charts, double-click the little square and enter: A new Phase with: Name Category And ID Make sure to select phase

5. The first phase has been created

6. In Favorites Gantt Charts, double-click the little square and enter: The Tasks with: Names Category And ID Duration Make sure to select task

7. The first task has been entered

8. This is how it would look after all tasks for the first phase have been entered

9. To indicate task’s dependencies drag from the end of one task to the beginning of the next one

10. Click here to auto- schedule

11. This is how it would look like Red Color indicates the Critical Path

13. Project with two phases included It is a coincidence that the two phases have same duration

14. Click to see the PERT The zoom commands were used to fit the chart in the window

15. On planning, Resource assignment, double click the little square to enter the resources and their costs

16. Do the same for non labor resources Use Equipment for Space

17. You can add the cost of components as “material”

18. Right click on the tasks and select assignment to assign resources to the tasks

19. Right click on the tasks and select assignment to assign resources to the tasks. Enter estimated hours in Estimate

20. As components were entered with a rate of $100, 1.5 will represent $150

21. The yellow color indicates that the task is low in resources, more hours or space or equipment, etc are needed If you need to add a new task or phase in between tasks or phases, right click the square and select insert task

22. There will be a problem if you click schedule again

23. As the Audio Interface Module and the Mixer Module were using the same resources, they were converted to sequential. You would need to add more resources to keep the tasks in parallel The zoom commands were used to fit the chart in the window

24. Another Low Frequency Engineer was included Two more Lab Spaces were included It was not necessary to increase the project duration

25. Click on controlling and then Revise Schedule to see the budget

26. Set The base Line Updating The Project Status

29. The task bar changes colour to reflect status (Red / Blue – Not Started) (Purple – Started) (Grey – Progress completed) The task name changes colour to reflect status (Red – Not Started) (Purple – Started) (Green – Completed)

30. Updating The Project Status If the task is completed enter 0 in Estimate

31. Updating The Project Status We reduced 20 hours but because of the weekend it appears to be a longer time

32. Milestones

33. Drag the milestone to the desired location

34. Milestones

35. Copy and Paste Table cells can be copied and pasted into excel By the way, this is a representation of the WBS

38. The Budget Even the Components are included here

39. & & Q uestions A nswers