4. Introduction
Microsoft Project helps to:
• easily plan projects and collaborate with
others.
• Stay organised and keep your projects on
track with the only project management
system designed to work seamlessly with
other Microsoft applications
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5. Advantages
• Quickly focus on what matters, easily select
actions to take, and seamlessly browse
functions with an enhanced visual experience.
• Stay in control of your project plans no matter
the size.
• With Task Path highlighting in the Gantt chart,
you always know how your tasks come together
and identify which are most critical to your
project’s success.
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6. Advantages
• Focus on what matters most by quickly
organizing and linking tasks to create
project plans and timelines.
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13. Create Tasks and Milestones
(Cont)
• Name: Task Name
• Percent Completed: How far this task has
been done
• Scheduled Mode: How to set the
sschedule (Manual or Auto)
• Dates: Start and Finish
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15. Relationship Between Tasks
• Predecessor: Task which happen before
the task itself.
• Type: 4 Types
– Finish to Start (FS)
– Start to Start (SS)
– Start to Finish (SF)
– Finish to Start (FS)
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17. Resources
Three resource types:
• Work resources: include the people and equipment needed to
complete the tasks in a project’s plan .
• Cost resources: Represent a financial cost associated with a task
you need to account for in the plan. Examples include categories of
expenses like travel, entertainment, and so on .
• Material resources: are consumables you use up as the project
proceeds . For example, a construction project might need to track
steel or concrete as it is used throughout the project .
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23. Password
• Every PIC will be given a password
• This password is used to access a project
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24. Tips and Tricks
• To create sub tasks (task Indent Task)
DURATION
• Total Duration
• Actual Duration
• Remaining Duration
• % Complete = Actual/Total
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25. • Essential aspects of tasks in a plan include their
duration and order of occurrence.
• You must assign resources to tasks before you
can track the progress or cost of resources.
• You can use formulas and graphical indicators in
custom fields to create a highly customized view,
such as a stoplight view, to communicate key
project health indicators to your stakeholders
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