Project 98: Managing a Project

Code:

 ZD52-711

Series:

 Office Productivity

Duration:

 1 day
Saving a baseline plan
Project planning processes
Executing processes
Creating a baseline plan

Tracking project progress
Modifying the environment for tracking
Tracking and updating tasks
Entering data for tasks in progress

Adjusting the schedule
Adjusting and viewing the schedule
Using interim plans

Working with resources and printing reports
Adjusting resource schedules and pay rates
Observing and customizing reports		 Managing consolidated projects
Consolidating projects
Managing resources

Importing and exporting data
Importing data
Exporting data

Project communications
Setting up the workgroup messaging system
Creating HTML files and using hyperlinks

Customizing the Microsoft Project environment
Customizing views
Creating macros
Working with global settings
Setting preferences and changing Gantt bar styles
Project 98: Managing a Project

Course specifications
Course number: 052 711
Course length: 1 day

Certification
The combined content of the Project 98: Creating a Project and Project 98: Managing a Project courses satisfies the requirements for the certified Microsoft Office User Specialist for Microsoft Project 98 at the Expert level.


Course description
Overview:
Students will learn how to use Microsoft Project 98 to manage a project plan after the project has begun. This course meets the Microsoft Proficiency Guidelines for Microsoft Project 98 at the Expert level.

Prerequisites:
Windows 95/98: Introduction, Microsoft Project 98: Creating a Project (Windows 95), or equivalent knowledge.

Delivery method:
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Benefits:
Students will learn how to use Microsoft Project 98 to track and modify a project that is in progress.

Target student:
Students enrolling in this course should have completed the Project 98: Creating a Project course and be familiar with terms such as Gantt Chart, PERT Chart, task, critical path, and resource.



Project 98: Managing a Project

Performance-based objectives
Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Create a baseline plan
  • Track an active project
  • Manage future tasks
  • Work with resource scheduling
  • Consolidate projects
  • Work with data in other applications
  • Create, edit, and add hyperlinks to HTML files
  • Modify the Microsoft Project environment