Learn Microsoft Project - Task Management (beginner)
1h! Run Time
Supervisors
Provided
Skills covered in this course
Description
Turn your project scope into a clear, well-structured Microsoft Project schedule you can actually manage and report on.
What this course covers:
- Building a work breakdown structure with tasks and summary tasks
- Setting a baseline so you can measure the quality of your estimates
- Producing estimates that balance being SMART with realistic risk contingency
- Using views to spot patterns, such as tasks that consistently run long
- Working confidently in the Microsoft Project interface
This is level 2 in a five-part maturity series for building reliable schedules.
Table of Contents
* What is a PBS (Product Breakdown Structure) and a WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)
* Importance of Ordering Activities
* PBS/WBS Best Practices
* Tasks, Summary Tasks and Outdent levels
* Durations and their Estimates
* Estimating Principles
* Adding Tasks to the Baseline
* Schedule Quality Assessment
* Update Tasks
* Record Task Progress
* Reschedule Incomplete Work in one Go
* Evaluate the Project Schedule
* Reporting on Task Progress
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
Author
MS Project Elearning.com is the leading Microsoft Project e-learning provider offering a step by step approach for mastering MS Project.
They offer 5 online learning courses about Microsoft Project, which they call 'Maturity Levels'.
After these 5 courses you will be able to generate a professional schedule that outperforms 95% of the project schedules that are made throughout the world.
MS Project Elearning.com wants to enable change. "Our goal is to get businesses and people enthusiastic about a new way of managing and planning their projects. This means to collaborate in projects according to 'processes' that work and are supported by the best PPM-tooling that is currently available on the market: Microsoft Project".
"Together with you, we want to be in a constant flow of seeking opportunities for your project management organization and embedding improvements so your Project Management Organisation will be a true ROI enabling machine!"
