Planning and Control Using Microsoft Project 365 and 2021

explains planning and scheduling with Microsoft Project, including defining work breakdown structure or product breakdown structure, tasks, durations, dependencies, calendars, baselines, and tracking progress with or without resources.

Learn to start and navigate Microsoft Project, compare standard and professional editions, customize the screen, use the quick access toolbar, and practice setting options while viewing the gantt chart.

Navigate Microsoft Project 365/2021, import the Eastwood Harris Quick Access Toolbar, customize quick access options, and configure project settings for simple mode, date formats, and scheduling rules.

Start Microsoft Project, create blank projects or templates, and save personal templates for standardized planning. Set start and status dates, calendars, and use alt keys to save and open projects.

Create a project from a template in Microsoft Project. Set the start date to the 9th of December 2024 and review headers, footers, calendars, and the Gantt chart.

Define and edit calendars in Microsoft Project 365 and 2021, create new calendars, assign them to projects, and manage holidays and exceptions for five-day, six-day, and twenty-four-hour schedules.

Edit the standard calendar, add holidays for 2024–2033, and create a six day per week calendar copied from the standard calendar with saturday working times; save and add activities.

Learn what a task is and how to add it, including milestones, copying from Excel, and dragging to reorder. Use the task information form to assign calendars and elapsed durations.

Add tasks with durations and calendars in Microsoft Project 365/2021, create milestones, assign task calendars, and build the work breakdown structure while tracing the critical path and float.

Explore organizing tasks with outlining in microsoft project, including creating and promoting summary tasks, calculating durations, and summarizing tasks for project views.

Enter summary tasks to structure a bidding schedule in Microsoft Project, inserting a project summary and three deliverable summaries: technical specification, delivery plan, and bid document, outdent and indent subtasks.

Format the display in Microsoft Project 365 and 2021, covering columns, time units, bars, row height, fonts, time scale, grid lines, colors, and dependencies, with a practical workshop.

Format bar chart in Microsoft Project 365 and 2021 using a template, add a task calendar column, remove predecessors, and adjust Gantt view to show bars and total float.

Explore how to create and manage task dependencies in Microsoft Project, including leads and lags, open and closed networks, and methods to assign relationships with practical tips.

Learn to add task relationships in Microsoft Project, display predecessor and total slack, hide the calendar column, and use the Gantt chart with total negative float to auto-calculate schedules.

Explore the network diagram view, add and delete tasks and dependencies, format boxes and lines, and master early/late dates and total float, including shapes for summary tasks and milestones.

Explore the network diagram, calculate early starts and finishes, late starts and finishes, and total float, and practice manual layout to visualize task relationships.