Microsoft Office Project, also referred to as Microsoft Project, is a suite of tools for more efficient project and portfolio management. Project is used in a variety of industries including construction, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, government, retail, financial services and health care.The main modules of Microsoft Project include project work and project teams, schedules and finances. Microsoft Project is designed to help users set realistic goals for project teams and customers by creating schedules, distributing resources and managing budgets.

Project Basics

• The Project screen
• Using the ribbon
• Creating a new project

Calendars and Scheduling

• Project start and finish dates
• Creating calendars
• Setting exceptions
• The timeline

Scheduling tasks manually

• Creating manually scheduled tasks
• Choosing start and finish dates
• Changing task durations

Automatically scheduled tasks

• Choosing automatic scheduling
• Linking tasks
• Using constraints
• The effect of calendars

Advanced Tasks

• Working with summary tasks
• Lag and slack
• Task notes
  • Recurring tasks

Costs and Resources

• Creating a resource pool
• Types of resources
• Setting resource costs
• Assigning resources to tasks

Resource Assignments

• Changing assignments
• Using task types
• Detailed assignment information
• The Team Planner

Resource Conflicts

• Identifying conflicts
• Resolving overallocations
• Levelling resources

Tracking a Project

• Setting a baseline
• The critical path
• Recording actual values
• Viewing variance information

Reporting

• Printing Project views
• Creating simple reports
• Visual reports using Excel

Views

• Project views
• Table
• Editing a view
• Formatting views