Microsoft Project 2019 and Project Online Desktop Essential Training

Learn how to master Microsoft Project, the world's leading project management software. This training covers Project 2019 and Project Online Desktop.

Introduction

• Get started with Microsoft Project 2019 and Project Online Desktop
• Understand the differences between Project editions
• Exercise files

1. Get to Know Project

• Manage files with the Backstage view
• Navigate the Project ribbon
• Make features easy to access

2. Set Up Project Files

• Create and save a project
• Create a project from a template
• Set helpful Project options
• Create a project from an Excel workbook
• Create a calendar for work days and times
• Set up exceptions to the regular work week

3. Creating Tasks

• The difference between auto and manual scheduling
• Create a manually scheduled task
• Create an auto-scheduled task
• Switch between manual and automatic scheduling
• Create a milestone task
• Create a recurring task
• Copy tasks from another program
• Create a summary task
• Display summary tasks and subtasks
• Organize the task list
• Delete tasks and summary tasks
• Work with work breakdown structure codes

4. Linking and Timing tasks

• Link tasks to build a schedule
• Add lag or lead time to task links
• Set task dates to specific dates
• View tasks and task links

5. Creating Resources

• Understanding resources
• Create a work resource
• Create a material resource
• Set up costs for work and material resources
• Create a cost resource
• Resource housekeeping

6. Assigning Tasks to Resources

• Understand duration, work, and units
• Assign resources to tasks
• Use Team Planner to assign resources
• Find overallocation
• Use effort-driven and non-effort-driven scheduling
• Modify resource assignments
• Replace resources on a task

7. Working with Views

• Choose a view
• Work with a table
• Insert and rearrange table columns
• Change the settings for columns in a table
• Display two views at the same time
• Use the Timeline view
• Create multiple timelines
• Sort tasks and resources
• Group tasks and resources
• Filter tasks and resources

8. Fine-Tuning the Project Schedule

• Review the critical path
• Identify schedule issues with Task Inspector
• Split tasks and assignments
• Delay a task or assignment
• Adjust a work contour
• Level resources
• Inactivate a task

9. Tracking and Managing a Project

• What are baseline, scheduled, and actual values?
• Save and clear a baseline
• Update a baseline
• Set up for recording progress
• Record progress
• Assign overtime
• Update costs
• Reschedule unfinished work
• An intro to the agile features of Project

10. Viewing and Reporting Project Information

• Get a high-level view of project status
• Find schedule problems
• Look for cost problems
• Work with graphical reports
• Evaluate earned value
• Print views and reports

11. Sharing Projects

• Save to other formats
• Work with the global template
• Export data from Project
• Share Project information with others

Conclusion

• Next steps