2. Project Planning with MS PROJECT

3. When Do you Use Project? Does it have a beginning and end? Does it use –People –Money –Facilities –Equipment Does it have specific goals?

4. What Will We Cover? The basic features of MS Project 2000 Creating a simple plan

5. Using Project as a Tool Initiation Planning Executing Controlling Closing

6. Creating a Plan Breaking activities into tasks Listing by sequence Group tasks under significant milestones

7. Visualizing the Project Dependencies Critical Path Interrelationships Cross-impacts

8. Planning the Project

9. 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

10. 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

11. Establish Relationships Identify tasks with predecessors Place task number in ID column Identify linked tasks –Highlight tasks and link

12. Identify Resources Create a list of people Tools: Resources: Assign –resources can be part-time Assign to each task

13. Adding Information Add notes –Descriptions of problems, meeting notes Include graphics –Pictures Hyperlinks –Presentations, documents

14. Sample Plan Buying a new PC What are the tasks?

15. The Basic Tasks

16. Create Headings for Tasks

17. Determine Start or Finish Date

18. Adjusting Dates

19. Adding Detail

20. Adding Project Details

21. Creating a Header/Footer

22. Creating a Resource List

23. Timescale Changes

24. Printing Reports File, Print Preview View, Reports, Select

25. Printing

26. Saving and Baselines

27. Interpreting Diagrams

28. 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