Microsoft Project - Course for beginners to advanced

This lectures discuss about stages of the project planning.

1. Tender Stage Planning

2. Project Initiation Stage

3. Project Monitoring Stage

4. Project Closing Stage.

The lecture details out the WBS structure and activities.

WBS level of schedules and the more details projected in the program improves the quality and level of the schedules.

Indenting under WBS is thought in the lecture.

The Dependency type for activities linkage is discussed in more details in the lecture.

The students will be able to learn how to add activities and indent under specific group to create EBS structure.

Insert activities, duration, start and finish details

Link the activities in "Predecessor" & "Successor" linking through relevant and logical correct dependency type.

The tasks modes are discussed such as "auto scheduled or "manually scheduled" and its relationship to the tasks.

Importance of Indenting and Outdenting in creating groups and relationships.

Inserting summary tasks and milestones.

The constraints to be considered to the activities area - as soon as possible,must start, must finish, start milestones, finish milestones, start not later than, start no earlier than, finish no earlier than and finish no later than.

Task types are discussed such as the "Fixed Units", "Fixed Durations and "Fixed Work". The Task Types play a key role in calculating the project.

Create resources in resource sheet.

The resources are created as materials, cost and work.

The resources are assigned to the activities.

After assignment of resources to the activities perform check for overallocation.

In case of overallocation of the resources identify over impacted resources and perform resource levelling.

The importance of Team Planner in resource levelling is discussed in details in the lecture.

The students will learn about the importance of identifying overallocation and levelling of the resources in the project.

This lecture takes you to the details of setting a baseline and clearing baseline to the program.

The importance of baseline for tracking the progress of the program is highlighted and students will learning importance of the baseline in this lecture.

After setting a planned program as a baseline, the next important thing to do is track and update the progress during the project period.

The tracking feature allows you to regularly identify late tasks, critical tasks, slippage against baseline and slack.

The updating of % complete, % work complete and actual details are discussed in details and students will learn systematic approach in updating the project progress.

The students will get insights of  formatting functions and their importance in customising the presentation format.

Project communication presents the file saving format, printing features and exporting.

The reports sections shows the ease of generating reports of various useful details such as dashboard, in progress task details, resource reports, financial reports.

The lecture also demonstrates development of S curve from the program.