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Project Planning with MS PROJECT
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When Do you Use Project? Does it have a beginning and end? Does it use –People –Money –Facilities –Equipment Does it have specific goals?
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What Will We Cover? The basic features of MS Project 2000 Creating a simple plan
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Using Project as a Tool Initiation Planning Executing Controlling Closing
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Creating a Plan Breaking activities into tasks Listing by sequence Group tasks under significant milestones
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Visualizing the Project Dependencies Critical Path Interrelationships Cross-impacts
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Planning the Project
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Navigating in Project Create a new project Determine start or finish date method Create an organized list in WORD Copy and paste into project Adjust Time scale (Format) View: Header & Footer –Project Information
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Create Milestones Insert: New tasks –Group according to function –Assign a duration in h,d,w Highlight lower level activities under milestone Create milestone symbols –Double click task –Check box for milestones
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Establish Relationships Identify tasks with predecessors Place task number in ID column Identify linked tasks –Highlight tasks and link
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Identify Resources Create a list of people Tools: Resources: Assign –resources can be part-time Assign to each task
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Adding Information Add notes –Descriptions of problems, meeting notes Include graphics –Pictures Hyperlinks –Presentations, documents
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Sample Plan Buying a new PC What are the tasks?
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The Basic Tasks
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Create Headings for Tasks
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Determine Start or Finish Date
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Adjusting Dates
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Adding Detail
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Adding Project Details
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Creating a Header/Footer
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Creating a Resource List
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Timescale Changes
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Printing Reports File, Print Preview View, Reports, Select
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Printing
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Saving and Baselines
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Interpreting Diagrams
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Managing the Project Update the per cent complete in task information –Tools:tracking: Update –By task Create HTML version to share progress –Save as htm file
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