An Introduction to Microsoft Project 2010 and 2013

By Ben Howard
This course introduces the novice user to Microsoft Project, and provides the user with the basic key concepts required in order to successfully get to grips with and use the software.
Course info
Rating
(410)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Jan 3, 2020
Duration
2h 36m
Table of contents
Introduction
Who Is This Course Aimed At? 1m Summary 1m Understanding the SKU Soup 3m Introduction 1m Excel or Project? 3m Checking out Your Verson 2m What's in the Course? 2m What Is Microsoft Project? 2m
Project Management Concepts and Terminology
Project Resources 1m Dependencies and Durations 1m Introduction 1m Project Constraints 2m Plan vs. Schedule 2m Summary 2m The WBS in Project 1m The Dependency Network and Critical Path 3m The Work Breakdown Structure 1m Microsoft Project and the Critical Path 1m Planning Process 2m Terminology 2m
Microsoft Project Internals
Introduction 1m MS Project Data as a Database 1m Components 2m Summary 1m MS Project Database Demo 3m
Navigating the Project Interface
Navigating the Project Interface 6m Summary 1m Understanding Views 3m Demo – Navigating the Project Interface and Changing the View 14m Introduction 1m
Saving Your First Plan
Where in the Process Are We? 1m Introduction 1m Where to Save the Project to 1m Summary 1m Demo - Entering the 1st Set of Data 3m Demo - Where to Save the Project to 4m Entering the 1st Set of Data 1m
Creating the Task List
Demo - Templates 3m Demo - Cut and Paste from Word 1m Demo - Sync to SharePoint 4m WBS and Outline Levels 1m Manual vs. Auto Scheduled Mode 2m Task Creation Options 2m Summary 2m Demo - Import from Excel 3m Introduction 1m Demo - Entering Tasks Manually 5m
Entering Task Durations
Demo 7m Personal Choice 0m Switching Task Mode 1m Introduction 1m Auto Scheduled Tasks 1m Estimates over Time 1m Manually Scheduled Tasks 1m Demo - Introduction 0m Summary 2m
Task Sequencing
Sequencing Tasks 1m Introduction 1m Lag and Lead Times 0m Demo - Sequencing Manually Scheduled Tasks 6m Sequencing Auto Scheduled Tasks 1m Demo - Sequencing Auto Scheduled Tasks 2m Sequencing Manually Scheduled Tasks 1m Best Practices 0m Summary 1m Terminology 1m Dependency Types 2m
The Timeline
Introduction 0m Demo - Adding Tasks to the Timeline 8m Copying the Timeline to Other Applications 1m Demo - Copying the Timeline to PowerPoint 2m Project Timelines 0m The Timeline in Microsoft Project 1m Timeline Introduction 1m Summary 1m
Printing
Introduction 1m Demo - Printing the Timeline 1m This Is What You See! 1m Summary 1m Demo - Printing the Gantt Chart 4m And This Is What You Get! 1m It's Not Quite WYSIWYG 1m Printing the Gantt Chart 1m
Description
Course info
Rating
(410)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Jan 3, 2020
Duration
2h 36m
Description

The course introduces the user to both Microsoft Project and key project management concepts and terminology. The course is designed to teach the student some very basic project management theory, and how to use Microsoft Project in order to create their first project schedule. Once the project is created then we discuss the options for sharing salient project information with the project stakeholders. This course covers the following PMBOK® Process Groups: Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling. This course covers the following PMBOK® Knowledge Areas: Project Scope Management, Project Time Management, Project Human Resource Management, Project Communications Management.

About the author
Ben Howard
About the author

Ben is a Microsoft Project, Project Server/Online consultant, and Data Specialist with over 20 years of implementation experience. He has been a Microsoft MVP for nine years, as well as blogging on various project server scenarios, has articles published on the Microsoft Project User Group (MPUG), and is the author of Microsoft Project 2013 Plain & Simple.

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