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Project Management Concepts with Microsoft Project

Project Management Concepts with Microsoft Project. Chapter 3 (supplement). Agenda. Project Scheduling Concepts MS Project “Tutorial” Includes Scheduling a Generic Project Team Building Exercise: Develop Preliminary Schedule for Term Project. Learning Objectives.

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Project Management Concepts with Microsoft Project

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  1. Project Management Concepts with Microsoft Project Chapter 3(supplement)

  2. Agenda • Project Scheduling Concepts • MS Project “Tutorial” • Includes Scheduling a Generic Project • Team Building Exercise: Develop Preliminary Schedule for Term Project

  3. Learning Objectives • Understand the components of a project schedule • Be able to describe project activities and their characteristics using MS Project

  4. Project Scheduling Concepts • Project = A planned undertaking of related activities to reach an objective that has a beginning and an end • Activity / task • Identifiable and distinct with a deliverable • Start time, stop time, duration (best, worst, estimated) • Resource requirements (people, equipment, etc.) • Precedence (yet independent) • Finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish, start-to-finish • Delay • Well-defined method • Measurable progress

  5. Project Scheduling Concepts (cont’d) • Critical path and slack time • Milestone / event • Summary task and subtasks • Charts • Gantt • PERT

  6. MS Project “Tutorial” - Lab • Start MS Project • Look at: Help - On-Line | Getting Started • Walk through the handout • Schedule the generic task on handout p. 8

  7. Team Building Exercise • Prepare preliminary project schedule • See Group Project – Project Description

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