Microsoft Project is a project management software that allows users to plan projects by defining tasks, assigning resources and timelines, tracking progress, and analyzing workloads and budgets. It was initially created internally at Microsoft in 1984 to help manage their large number of software projects. Key features include creating Gantt charts, critical path schedules, assigning resources to tasks, and monitoring project progress against the original plan. Crashing allows expediting schedules by compressing durations but at increased costs, with the goal of minimizing time while controlling additional expenses.

1. Presented byKhem Singh Chauhan (191090)

2. IntroductionMicrosoft Project is a project management software program developed and sold by MicrosoftDesigned to assist project managers in developing plans, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workloads.The application creates critical path schedules, and critical chain which can be visualized in a Gantt chart.Available currently in two editions, Standard and Professional.MS Project's proprietary file format is *.mpp.

3. History Initially proposed by Microsoft's Manager of Product Development, Alan M. Boyd as an internal tool to help manage the huge number of software projects that were in development at any time inside the company.

4. The first commercial version of Project was released for DOS in 1984. Subsequent DOS versions: V2 (1985), V3 (1986) and V4 (1986)

5. First Windows version-1990

6. Macintosh version -1991

7. Subsequent versions-V3 (1992), V4 (1993), 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2010.CompetitorsOpenProj

8. Open Workbench

9. Primavera (software)

10. Project.net

11. Basecamp (software)

12. Gantt Project

13. Genius Inside

14. LiquidPlanner

15. MicroPlanner X-Pert

16. NavalPlanPurposeList each task necessary to complete a project in the order they should be performed.Assign start and finish dates to tasks or let the program set them for you by you specifying the duration of the task.Display the tasks graphically over a time line to get an overall view of the project.Assign workers, contractors, and other resources to tasks and print their schedules.Compute the hours and cost necessary to complete a task or the entire project.Monitor a project’s progress and compare it to your original estimate.Analyze such items as cost, hours, slack time, resource allocation, etc. using tables and graphs

17. Planning a ProjectDefine Goals

18. Develop Tasks

19. Establish Timeframes