Microsoft Project in Business Situations: Tips from the Field
53mBeginner2022-09-06
Authors
Cindy Lewis
Microsoft Certified Trainer, MVP, PMP, Author, Educator, and Speaker
Course details
If you’re new to project management and scheduling, or just looking to upskill for your current role, learning how to use Microsoft Project can help you manage some of the most common tactical problems facing your business. In this course, Microsoft MVP Cindy M. Lewis shows you how to get the most out of Microsoft Project to solve critical business situations, especially those where time and date restrictions apply.
Explore use cases of typical business hiccups that cause timing and scheduling constraints. Find out how to allocate a budget to a project phase, identify an over- or underbudget scenario, deploy single or multiple business target dates, modify a schedule to incorporate a major schedule delay, and generate an early warning for a major delivery task. Along the way, Cindy draws insights from her own experiences and shares techniques to help you improve time delivery.
Explore use cases of typical business hiccups that cause timing and scheduling constraints. Find out how to allocate a budget to a project phase, identify an over- or underbudget scenario, deploy single or multiple business target dates, modify a schedule to incorporate a major schedule delay, and generate an early warning for a major delivery task. Along the way, Cindy draws insights from her own experiences and shares techniques to help you improve time delivery.
Skills covered
Microsoft ProjectProject Management SoftwareProject ManagementBusiness Software and ToolsMicrosoftOne-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- Add fixed business targets to Microsoft Project
Creating a Time Budget for a Phase
- Set a task as auto or manually scheduled
- Build a multilevel list
- Set a time budget for a new phase
- Set a time budget for an existing phase
- Identify over and under budget situations
Building a Schedule with Finish Targets Up Front
- Enable the project summary task
- Work with forward and backward scheduling
- Create milestone tasks
- Build a schedule with a required start and finish date
- Build a schedule with multiple intermediate dates
- Identify missed targets and critical paths
Add an Early Warning to a Major Delivery Task
- Difference between deadlines and constraints
- Audit a schedule for unnecessary constraints
- Build a major delivery task
- Evaluate schedule risk during changes
Incorporate a Major Schedule Delay
- Move an unbegun project
- Move an unbegun task
- Move a task in progress
- Add tasks to represent a delay
- Baseline revision best practices
Apply Techniques to Improve Time Delivery
- Display critical tasks
- Identify business critical tasks
- Create and update effort-driven tasks
- Split task delivery time
- Use Start to Start and Finish to Finish links
- Partial overlap links with lag and lead time
- Ignore low-priority tasks
Conclusion
- Next steps