Microsoft Project is a widely-used, widely-misused project scheduling tool. This series of web seminars will unveil some of the most widely misunderstood features and functions of the software, to help you schedule your real-world projects more easily.

This three-part seminar covers:

• Resources and Deadlines
• Right-Sizing Your Project
• Formulas and Views
  

"Resources and Deadlines" explores resources and deadlines in Microsoft Project. In this session, learn

• What data MS Project can track about your projects' people, things, materials, machinery, and equipment

• Where you can generate reports that use that data

• Why people often have trouble representing deadlines in MS Project, and a simple, powerful way to track them

When you create a project plan, how big should it be? How many rows of tasks should we create? How deep should our hierarchy of tasks and sub-tasks be? How much data do we want to track in MS Project?

There are no absolutely "right" or "wrong" answers to these questions. This session will share the way experienced schedulers decide what should be put into the schedule, and what should be left out of it.

"Formulas and Views" are two powerful tools for creating custom reports and calculations in MS Project. Often people laboriously create custom status reports by hand, when a few simple formulas and a custom view would automatically produce a high-quality report in seconds.

This session explores Formulas and Views in depth. This session assumes that you are familiar with how to create a schedule in MS Project, and will quickly turn to advanced topics about how to create custom reports.

• Teacher: Alex Brown, PMP IPMA-C