Project Introduction

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Course objectives

At the end of the course participants will be able to:

Course topics

Introduction to Project

  • Overview
  • Getting Started

Starting a Project

  • Scheduling a Project
  • The Project Calendar
  • Resource Calendars

Tasks and Durations

  • Creating Tasks
  • Creating Milestones
  • Outlining a Project
  • Task Durations
  • Task Notes

Tasks Scheduling

  • Task Relationships
  • Relationship types
  • Lead and Lag time
  • Task Constraints
  • Deadlines

Formatting

  • Text
  • Bars
  • Gantt Chart Wizard

Resources

  • Creating Resources
  • Task Types
  • Assigning Resources
  • Automatically Levelling Resources
  • Manually Levelling Resources

Project Costs

  • Variable Costs
  • Fixed Costs

Tracking the Project

  • Creating Project Baselines
  • Tracking
  • What can go wrong

Printing

  • Printing the Gantt Chart
  • Printing Reports

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites but experience with the Windows operating environment and using a keyboard and mouse is desirable.

Course Duration

1 day

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