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
(412)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Jan 3, 2020
Duration
2h 36m
Table of contents
Introduction
Checking out Your Verson 2m Excel or Project? 3m Introduction 1m Summary 1m Understanding the SKU Soup 3m What Is Microsoft Project? 2m What's in the Course? 2m Who Is This Course Aimed At? 1m
Project Management Concepts and Terminology
Dependencies and Durations 1m Introduction 1m Microsoft Project and the Critical Path 1m Plan vs. Schedule 2m Planning Process 2m Project Constraints 2m Project Resources 1m Summary 2m Terminology 2m The Dependency Network and Critical Path 3m The WBS in Project 1m The Work Breakdown Structure 1m
Microsoft Project Internals
Components 2m Introduction 1m MS Project Data as a Database 1m MS Project Database Demo 3m Summary 1m
Navigating the Project Interface
Demo – Navigating the Project Interface and Changing the View 14m Introduction 1m Navigating the Project Interface 6m Summary 1m Understanding Views 3m
Saving Your First Plan
Demo - Entering the 1st Set of Data 3m Demo - Where to Save the Project to 4m Entering the 1st Set of Data 1m Introduction 1m Summary 1m Where in the Process Are We? 1m Where to Save the Project to 1m
Creating the Task List
Demo - Cut and Paste from Word 1m Demo - Entering Tasks Manually 5m Demo - Import from Excel 3m Demo - Sync to SharePoint 4m Demo - Templates 3m Introduction 1m Manual vs. Auto Scheduled Mode 2m Summary 2m Task Creation Options 2m WBS and Outline Levels 1m
Entering Task Durations
Auto Scheduled Tasks 1m Demo 7m Demo - Introduction 0m Estimates over Time 1m Introduction 1m Manually Scheduled Tasks 1m Personal Choice 0m Summary 2m Switching Task Mode 1m
Task Sequencing
Best Practices 0m Demo - Sequencing Auto Scheduled Tasks 2m Demo - Sequencing Manually Scheduled Tasks 6m Dependency Types 2m Introduction 1m Lag and Lead Times 0m Sequencing Auto Scheduled Tasks 1m Sequencing Manually Scheduled Tasks 1m Sequencing Tasks 1m Summary 1m Terminology 1m
The Timeline
Copying the Timeline to Other Applications 1m Demo - Adding Tasks to the Timeline 8m Demo - Copying the Timeline to PowerPoint 2m Introduction 0m Project Timelines 0m Summary 1m The Timeline in Microsoft Project 1m Timeline Introduction 1m
Printing
And This Is What You Get! 1m Demo - Printing the Gantt Chart 4m Demo - Printing the Timeline 1m Introduction 1m It's Not Quite WYSIWYG 1m Printing the Gantt Chart 1m Summary 1m This Is What You See! 1m
Description
Course info
Rating
(412)
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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