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Microsoft Project Basics

Basic handling of MS Project

Microsoft Project – Resources and Costs

Create personnel, material and cost resources and assign them to activities.
Illumination of the calculation methods.

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Microsoft Project Basics

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Duration:	2 days
Target group:	Project User
Target:	Basic handling of MS Project, implementation of a time scheduling with structuring, monitoring and evaluation
Prior knowledge:	Basic knowledge of Windows, Word and Excel
Content:	Basic concepts of IT project management Forward / backward calculation TopDown / Bottom Up Planning Gantt chart (bar chart), critical path, buffer times Plan – target – actual – times Creating a project Enter activities with name and duration Structure operations: Structuring into collective and suboperations Milestones in the schedule Schedule operations: Project info, restriction types and key dates Settings in the calendar: Working hours and days off Calendar types: Project / activity / resource calendar From planning to control Fix target for later comparisons: the baseline plan Preparation of monitoring / project management: Change of view Write progress in the schedule: PLAN – TARGET – ACTUAL – Comparison Introduction of additionally required information: User fields Resources and costs Evaluating the schedule Views for evaluation: Gantt, calendar, tabular views Set print views sensibly, photograph plan sections Reports: overviews, tabular, as cross tabulation Graphical reports (Excel, Visio) The concept of GLOBAL.MPT – the central object file Centrally manage views, tables, filters, calendars and other objects Creating objects using views, tables and filters as examples