System Requirements In today’s digital business environment, organisations seek employees who are computer literate. Seeing as lately most projects rely on using Microsoft Project (MS…

https://vimeo.com/731698067 Welcome to the Microsoft Project Fundamentals course. This is a self-directed learning programme designed to help you develop new skills at your own pace.…

Let’s Review We have covered four modules in this course: Module 1: Background Module 2: Project Planning Module 3: Project Monitoring Module 4: Project Communication…

Over to you Finally, in Exercise 11, you make sure you communicate this project. For that, we will take a look at some features of…

https://vimeo.com/729933820 A few printing tips can save a lot of paper. Also try the Reports features – see Configure and Display Reports and Dashboards. To…

https://vimeo.com/720986089 Reporting the progress status is important for managers, stakeholders as well as for the project manager to know what is happening on the project.…

https://vimeo.com/720984307 The Timeline feature is new from Project 2010, and allows a customised, simplified version of the project plan, which is ideal for communicating to…

Over to you In Exercise 10, you will need to review and improve the project plan, which is currently over budget and over schedule. After…

https://vimeo.com/729932156 In this video, we are going to learn how to monitor and control our project progress against the project plan in MS Project. The…

https://vimeo.com/720980892 A baseline is a work product or plan that has been approved. Variances are identified by comparing actual performance to baselines. Remember that using…

Over to you In Exercise 9, you will create a critical path in MS Project and show the float. Please review the downloadable exercise worksheet…

https://vimeo.com/729931633 In this video we will learn how to display critical path information of single or master projects in MS Project. There is a summary…

Over to you In Exercise 8, you will be adding the durations to the project, as given in the table on the attached worksheet. Remember,…

https://vimeo.com/729930732 Work and Duration were already discussed in previous sections – Fixed Work, Fixed Units, Fixed Durations and Create a User Controlled Schedule – as part…

Over to you For Exercise 7, please download the exercise worksheet to find all the information you need to add the fixed costs for this…

https://vimeo.com/729929973 We already looked at resources and resource costs in a previous topic – Enter and Edit Resource Information. This video will now cover other…

Over to you Exercise 6 is about adding the dependencies between the tasks on MS Project. Please review the downloadable exercise worksheet attached above the…

https://vimeo.com/729928627 In this video, we will be looking at the dependencies between the tasks in MS Project. In the study notes below, you will find…

Over to you In Exercise 5,  you will add the work content to the MS Project. All the information required can be found on the…

https://vimeo.com/729927319 In this video, we will be looking at how to create a user controlled schedule in MS Project. In the study notes below, you…

https://vimeo.com/720967028 In this video, we will be looking at different task types: fixed work, fixed units and fixed durations. We will look at durations in…

https://vimeo.com/720965857 In this video, we will be looking at how to manage resource allocation in MS Project. In the study notes below you will find…

Over to you In Exercise 4, you will assign the resources in the Resource Sheet to the Tasks in the Gantt Chart on MS Project.…

https://vimeo.com/729925990 This section views some of the different methods of assigning resources to tasks, specifically looking at assignments where individuals work on tasks. Multiple resources…

Over to you The Garage Construction Project Exercise 3 invites you to add the project resources to the Resource Sheet in MS Project. The resources…

https://vimeo.com/729924805 In this video, we will learn how to enter and edit resource information in MS Project. In the study notes below you will find…

https://vimeo.com/720689268 In this video, you will learn about task information and task constraints in MS Project. In the study notes below you will find a…

Over to you In Exercise 2, you will put in practice what you have learned on the previous topic about creating and modifying a Task…

https://vimeo.com/729922586 MS Project isn’t the only way of creating and communicating a project plan. A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a method of arranging the…

Over to you Let’s start applying what we have learned so far by creating a comprehensive project plan for a Garage Construction Project. This plan…

https://vimeo.com/729921109 In Module 2 we will learn how to plan a project in MS Project, and we will start by setting up the project information…

https://vimeo.com/729919238 In this video, we will be looking at customising our option settings in MS Project. In the study notes below you will find a…

https://vimeo.com/720668344 In this video, we will be looking at automatic and manual scheduling in MS Project. In the study notes below you will find a…

https://vimeo.com/720666766 In this video, you will get a comprehensive overview of how to create and use custom fields in MS Project. In the study notes…

Microsoft Project (or MS Project) is essentially a database used for project planning. MS Project has many database fields, which are pieces of information that…

The Interface of Microsoft Project In this video, you will get a comprehensive overview of the interface of MS Project. In the study notes below…

Refresh your Project Management Knowledge Before mastering Microsoft Project and learning how to use the software to support your project, it is important to understand…