NỘI DUNG MS  PROJECT

 INTRODUCTION

• Overview of project management standards and terms
• The role of Project in the Microsoft Enterprise solution
• Configuring Microsoft Project and customizing the user interface

BUILDING A PROJECT PLAN FROM SCRATCH

Planning activities

• Identifying the goals, assumptions and limitations
• Outlining stages, tasks and milestones
• Analyzing projects with work breakdown structures

Creating your plan in Microsoft Project

• Reproducing the WBS in Project
• Placing tasks in sequential order
• Calculating task durations

Designating calendars

• Scheduling a project based on the start or finish date
• Working with default calendars

Scheduling project tasks

• Establishing relationships between tasks
• Linking and interrelating tasks
• Optimizing the schedule using lead and lag times
• Constraining tasks to target specific dates
• Defining milestones and setting deadlines

CREATING AND ASSIGNING RESOURCES

Assigning staff and material resources to tasks

• Establishing resource needs
• Producing a resource list

Managing resources

• Reviewing assignments and workloads
• Eliminating resource over-allocations with leveling
• Designing resource calendars

Calculating cost and budgeting

• Analyzing cost structures
• Defining task and resource costs
• Monitoring total project costs

KEEPING YOUR PROJECTS ON TRACK

Optimizing the schedule

• Examining significant scheduling factors
• Selecting task types
• Establishing the critical path
• Finalizing the project plan

Updating a project and recording progress

• Setting the baseline
• Incorporating actual progress
• Identifying existing and potential schedule problems
• Manipulating and rescheduling tasks
• Monitoring resource progress and balancing workloads

COMMUNICATING AND REPORTING PROJECT DATA

Organizing and summarizing reports

• Sorting and filtering tasks and resources
• Categorizing information with groups

Distributing project information

• Displaying complex data with custom views
• Setting up and printing views and reports
• Publishing project data to a Web site
• Integrating Microsoft Project with other applications

MANAGING MULTIPLE PROJECTS

Setting up master projects and subprojects

• Building a master project file
• Linking and consolidating projects and subprojects

Sharing resources between projects

• Creating a resource pool
• Leveling shared resources

CLOSING A COMPLETED PROJECT

• Defining the end of a project
• The three main activities of project closure