Microsoft Project Fundamentals

Course Overview

Microsoft Project Fundamentals

This course covers all the fundamental skills required to create and print project plans and assign resources to tasks.

Course Content

Overview of Projects and Project Management

What is a project?

• Project planning and objectives
• Work breakdown structures

Getting Started with Projects

• Navigating the project interface
• Opening and navigating project files
• Working with views and tables
• Changing system options

Starting a New Project

• Setting project base information
• Modifying the base calendar
• Outlining the plan
• Manual vs automatic scheduling
• Inserting, editing, deleting, moving and copying tasks
• Inserting summary and sub-tasks
• Creating and displaying task notes

Defining a Project Schedule

• Entering task durations and elapsed time
• Creating milestone tasks
• Dealing with scheduling issues
• Creating and modifying dependency links
• Creating a project between tasks
• What is a critical path and a critical task
• Viewing slack time/float

Simple Resource Scheduling

• Using the resource sheet
• Entering and editing resource details
• Resource availability and holidays
• Basic resource assignments
• Using resource views to resolve conflicts

Completing Tasks

• Marking tasks as complete
• Viewing task progress

Printing Project Plans

• Previewing and printing projects
• Controlling page setup