Project Management Guides and Tutorials from Microsoft

This is a list of Microsoft Project Management guides and tutorials I built through various sources.

• A quick history of project management

• Watch this: New features in Project 2007

• Watch this: Create a project

• Project keyboard commands

• Administrator role guide for Project Web Access
• Create a milestone
• Plans within plans: master projects and subprojects
• Create my timesheet
• Report the Status of my Tasks
• Add a Task to Your Task Status
• Project Fields and Their Descriptions
• Show the critical path
• Manage your project’s critical path
• Use templates in Project 2007
• Back to Basics: Working with task date constraints
• Back to Basics: Understanding task dependencies
• Create task dependencies (links) within your project
• Create and link tasks with Project 2007
• Change or remove task dependencies (links)
• Create work breakdown structure (WBS) codes  This topic has been updated with more information about basic view usage.
• Set lead or lag time (float) between tasks  Set lead or lag time (float) between tasks. This topic has had a number of terms added to make it more searchable from the perspective of the PMBOK.
• Use templates in Project 2007 More information on templates.
• Assign a resource to a task  Assigning resources to a task also helps you to discover how long it will take to complete that task — and if you track costs, how much the task will cost.
• Enter costs for resources  Project 2007 calculates the costs for resources based upon a number of factors and resource types.
• Overview of project cost information  Project 2007 can help you estimate and track basic cost information for your project.
• How your project fits into the big picture  Project management is fairly straightforward: identify tasks, assign resources, set the schedule.But what do you say when your supervisor asks you what the business objectives are for the portfolio containing your project, or whether your project’s deliverable is a product or a result? This article can help you understand some key project management terms and how they relate to your project.

• Goal: Optimize the project plan to meet the budget
• Goal: Optimize the project plan for resources
• Goal: Prepare to manage costs
• Goal: Review final project information
• Goal: Set up a project for tracking
• Goal: Record progress and respond to updates
• Goal: Identify schedule problems
• Goal: Resolve resource allocation problems  To get the best performance and results from resources, you need to manage resource workloads to avoid overallocations and underallocations. Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to help get the best performance from your project resources.

• Watch this: Link tasks in your project  This demo shows how to create task dependencies within a single project, and how to adjust the link type for the dependency.
• Watch this: Set up a recurring task  This demo shows how to create a task that repeats on a set schedule throughout a project.
• Watch this: Insert a task
• Watch this: Group tasks or resources  This demo shows how to group tasks, remove the grouping, and create a new resource group using multiple criteria
• Watch this: Create a milestone
• Watch this: Create a cross-project link  This demo shows how to create task dependencies across separate Project 2007 files.
• Watch this: Use lag and lead time  This demo shows how to use lag and lead time to create gaps and overlaps between tasks in a project.
• Watch this: Create a project  This demo shows how to create a project, set project properties, and set file properties.
• Watch this: Set up a recurring task  This demo shows how to create a task that repeats on a set schedule throughout a project.
• Watch this: Split a task  This demo shows how to interrupt a task, creating a gap between two portions of the task. It also shows how to move the entire split task, adjust the length of the gap created by the split, and rejoin the split portions of the task to remove the gap.
• Watch this: Insert a task  This demo shows how to insert a new task between two existing tasks in a project.
• Watch this: Group tasks or resources  This demo shows how to group tasks, remove the grouping, and create a new resource group using multiple criteria.
• Watch this: Create a cross-project link  This demo shows how to create task dependencies across separate Project 2007 files.
• Watch this: Create an inter-project dependency  Watch the video on creating relationships between groups in your organization through Project dependencies.
• Watch This: Split a view  Work like the pros. Learn now to split a few for easy task and resource manipulation.
• Watch this: Create slack (float) in your schedule
• Watch this: Add a deliverable  Identify deliverables to show an end product of a particular task or of the entire project.
• Watch this: Add resources  Watch this video to learn how to add resources to your project, and how to assign them to project tasks.
• Watch this: Show the critical path  This demo shows you several ways to display a project’s critical tasks. It also shows how to display multiple critical paths in a single project.
• Watch this: Create a cross-project link  Watch this short demo to learn how to create an inter-project dependency between a task in one project and a deliverable that is linked to a task in another project.

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Steve Mullen has been involved in information technology for over 35 years. He is also actively involved in the music program (voice and English hand bells) and Vestry of St. Anne’s Episcopal Church in Damascus, MD.

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