Project 98 - Day 2

Tracking the Project

 

Who Should Attend This Course

Users who have Project 98 Level 1 or equivalent training

 

Course Length: one day

 

Course Lessons

1. Working with the Critical Path

Viewing and shortening the critical path, viewing slack, assigning overtime

 

2. Customizing Project Information

Setting Microsoft Project options; using the GanttChart Wizard, the Drawing toolbar, the AutoFilter feature, and the Organizer; creating a custom filter, table, and view; applying a table to a view; adding and hiding a table column

 

3. Working with Baselines

Working with baselines; using baseline tables; saving a project baseline, a task baseline, a project interim plan, and a task interim plan

 

4. Tracking Your Progress

Tracking progress; revising the current date; updating a task on and not on schedule; viewing slippage and summary information; updating a task in progress; entering the percent complete, actual and remaining durations, and actual work values; applying progress lines

 

5. Working with Earned Value

Entering a status date, viewing earned value data, exporting earned value data to Excel

 

6. Working with Reports

Creating a report, a custom report, and a crosstab report; using the Print Preview window; changing page setup options; printing a report

 

 

Sharing and Finalizing Project Information

 Course Lessons

1. Finalizing a Project

Marking tasks complete, correcting actual data, analyzing final data, using final data in a new project, copying task names to a new project

 

2. Working with Multiple Projects

Working with and creating consolidated projects, creating a subproject, inserting a project, linking and unlinking subproject information, viewing multiple critical paths, saving a workspace file

 

3. Working with Resource Pools

Working with, creating, and updating resource pools; linking a project to a resource pool; opening a sharer file

 

4. Reviewing Workgroup and Web Basics

Using workgroup features; setting up the workgroup manager and workgroup resources; sending a TeamAssign, TeamUpdate, and TeamStatus message; responding to a TeamAssign, TeamUpdate, and TeamStatus message; updating the project; customizing workgroup features; adding hyperlinks to a project; saving a project as an HTML file

 

5. Importing and Exporting Data

Using import/export maps, importing and exporting data, creating a custom import/export map, saving a project as a database

 

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