Project Management Concepts with Microsoft Project

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Project Management Concepts with Microsoft Project

• Chapter 3(supplement)

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Agenda

• Project Scheduling Concepts
• MS Project Tutorial
• Includes Scheduling a Generic Project
• Team Building Exercise Develop Preliminary
  Schedule for Term Project

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Learning Objectives

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

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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

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Project Scheduling Concepts (contd)

• Critical path and slack time
• Milestone / event
• Summary task and subtasks
• Charts
• Gantt
• PERT

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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

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Team Building Exercise

• Prepare preliminary project schedule
• See Group Project Project Description