Are you going to a training center to give your money for Microsoft Project training and lose 3 working days? Find the best use for your money and time! I publish videos and materials of a standard 3-day Microsoft Project 2010/2013 training course, which in the corporate version costs about 200,000 rubles. More precisely, it was worth it, because... Now it's free including example files and a book for the course.
Why such an unprecedented gift? This is a sponsorship program, we are helped by manufacturers of industry solutions for Microsoft Project such as Turbo Planner (capital construction, R&D and IT).
Now we are publishing a complete analogue of the most expensive course on MS Project and in a more effective form of e-learning through videos, documentation, and example files.
Course handouts and documentation
The video course includes handouts in Microsoft Project form and a booklet.
You can download them below.
A quick introduction to Microsoft Project 2013 and Visual Resource Optimizer in half an hour
1.Introduction to project management methodology based on the ISO 21500 standard and a complete overview of the MS Project 2013 interface
a. Project concept
b. General principles of project management
c. Main stages of working with the project
d. Project management automation tools
e. General overview of Microsoft Project 2013
I included in this block the first introduction in the CIS to project management methodology based on the ISO 21500 standard, explaining the difference between the concept of a project according to the ISO and PMI methodology. The course places great emphasis on the limits of applicability of standard methods and at what point it is necessary to use industry solutions. The emphasis is placed on the importance of the planner as a success of implementation. This introduction turned out to be unique in its own way in its emphasis on the limits of applicability and risks from the implementation of standard methodologies, which is usually kept silent by trainers. Judging by the number of "upvotes" on YouTube, the community found this introduction to modern project management methodology to be very effective.
The standard course on MS Project in the most expensive 3-day version, in my opinion, has a methodological error. The fact is that trainers tell how the MS Project interface works, ignoring the fact that they overload beginners with redundant information. As I already noted, the “quick introductions” with which we started the course are more effective. However, we deliberately follow the standard program so that there are no blocks left from the standard training program that are not covered by our free courses.
Below is a complete overview of all menus and all options of Microsoft Project 2013. In fact, this block is more useful for experienced users, because Probably many people were tormented by the question “what is this button?” It explains all the buttons and what they do. However, even listing the functionality of MS Project took one hour. If you are a beginner, you might want to skip this block, because... There may be an “overload” from the abundance of information, go further through the program, and then return to this lesson.
2.Creation of a new project and quick introduction to network planning
a.Creating a new project from scratch and based on a template
b.Setting project parameters
c.Project Timeline
d. Top-down planning
A standard commercial course on MS Project usually begins with creating projects. However, the trainers are silent about the limitations of MS Project functionality in the practical applicability of the templates, as well as the features of the Excel-like functions that Microsoft introduced into the product to strengthen its sales. In this block, I highlight the risks from the thoughtless implementation of MS Project “first line of use” functions, which are designed largely by salespeople, not methodologists.
If you don’t want to know why MS Project templates are rarely implemented, you can scroll to the beginning of the video, there is a link for this.
This lesson contains another block on a quick introduction to network planning, but it is much simpler than the 30-minute express course at the very beginning of our educational package.
3.Working with tasks as components of a project
a. Task concept
b. Creating, changing, deleting tasks
c. Establishing connections between tasks. Team "Respect connections"
d. Creating a task hierarchy
e. Task parameters (duration, limitations, method of calculating labor costs, etc.)
f. Special task types (recurring tasks, milestones, interrupted tasks)
g. Review of the most typical situations associated with changing work parameters
This video contains a recording of a block of a standard commercial course on MS Project 2013 with coverage of all task options in the project. In contrast to the mechanical presentation of options by trainers, the course focuses on those options that are actually used, and also shows how MS Project itself automatically switches restrictions on tasks, which is a surprise for many users.
As practice shows, when working with project tasks, exotic connection parameters are very rarely needed, but the methodology for creating Hierarchical Work Structures (WBS, WBS) is much more important. I made a video tutorial that covers the creation of work structures from a methodological point of view, ignoring rare options. If methodology is more important to you, rather than going through all the options as in the previous lesson, then you can look at this version of the story on how work structures are made.
4. Resource and budget planning
a. Types of resources
b. Setting up project and resource calendars
c. Assigning resources. Planning “from resources” and “from work”
d. Working with resource costs
This video tutorial contains at the beginning a small repetition about network planning, because... many people know how to handle tasks, but do not know how to use MS Project resources. The lesson is designed so that you can watch it in isolation from others. The lesson shows the subtle effects of resource management options on MS Project tasks. Some of the questions are included in the lesson on MS Project reporting below, which shows how, by manipulating resources and new MS Project 2013 reports, build Cash Flow including balances and turnover in periods.
5.Analysis and optimization of the project
a. Resource overload and its elimination. Automatic resource leveling feature
b. Task path
c. Resource optimizer Team Planner
d. Project budget analysis
e. Project schedule analysis. Critical path method.
f. Risk analysis
g. Project optimization
We included an overview of the resource optimizer and leveling in the basic knowledge, taking into account modern trends. Some questions regarding project analysis are discussed in the reporting block below. Another lesson on the Critical Path will be added in this section.
6.Project management and plan/actual analysis
a. Working with baselines and intermediate plans
b. Entering actual parameters
c. Analysis of project implementation. Earned Value Method
d. Project adjustment
The first lesson shows the real plan/factual analysis technique that many trainers hide from users in order to sell “consulting” later. Although in fact this is where the main value of MS Project is as a product that, like Excel, has developed formulas. I showed how the actual implementation is entered and then the standard technique of how arbitrary “performance indicators” for the project are derived using formulas and graphical indicators.
The next lesson is probably the most difficult in this course. Here we look at not just the Mastered Volume methodology, but its innovative version modified by Microsoft. However, only with such non-obvious methods can you achieve the correct percentage of completion according to plan/actual. In my experience, course participants cannot absorb such material only in lecture form. Download my example project and try to repeat the steps.
Only 5% of users can now use such techniques, but the ability to use them is the symptom of whether you need to call a consultant for help or not.
7. Completion of the project and the technique for calculating standards after the fact
Usually, trainers very briefly explain the data processing techniques in a project after it is closed. This lesson reveals know how to obtain top-down standards for the relationship between types of work in a project by analyzing the collected factual information.
We are ready to provide you with Microsoft Project training, as well as provide consultations on using Project to solve your business problems. Moreover, you don’t have to go to a training center to acquire new knowledge: we organize training via the Internet using modern conferencing tools. You can order individual consultations or training for a small group of specialists from your organization.
Why MS Project courses don't work
After speaking with many Brise clients, we have come to understand why traditional Microsoft Project group courses are likely to be of little help to most of their participants.
- The trainer has a standard course program in advance, in which it is impossible to take into account the different levels of training of the group members, as well as the differences in the learning goals that they set for themselves. This problem is especially acute when the training is not corporate, and a group of employees from various organizations gathers.
- With a large number of students, the trainer does not have the opportunity to pay enough attention to work issues and difficulties that arise during the learning process for each of them. It sounds paradoxical, but The more a trainer earns from teaching a group, the worse he will train each of its participants.
- Typically, courses last only a few days in a row, during which the teacher tries to “download” a lot of information into the student at once, with very limited practice and the inability to comprehend this information in practice. An overwhelmed student may leave a glowing review immediately after the course, but after a while it turns out that he learned very few skills, or not the ones he will need in practice.
- In the worst case scenario, in a project management course, the training is conducted in front of a whiteboard and projector screen rather than in a computer lab, and students receive no practice at all in using the Project program.
Which approach to learning is more effective?
Several short seminars instead of one long one. Our seminars last no more than 2 hours. In this case, the breaks between them should be several working days so that the student can master the acquired knowledge in practice.
Small groups. For group training, we allow no more than five people in a group, all of whom are from the same organization. This will allow employees to share their experience with each other and help develop common approaches to further work.
No trips to the training center. In the 21st century, with the universal availability of the Internet, spending as much time traveling to class and back as the seminar itself is an unaffordable luxury.
Who conducts the training: our experts
We offer one-on-one consultation with Microsoft Project experts who do not specialize in training but have extensive hands-on experience using the product. Brise experts:
- Implement MS Project in organizations in various industries;
- They write articles about using Project in project management, which are published, among other things, on our website;
- They answer numerous questions on one of the main Russian-language forums on Project;
- Solve complex technical problems, including when interacting with Project developers;
- Developing additional components for MS Project.
According to our estimates, there are no more than 30 experts of such qualifications throughout the CIS, but we offer individual consultations with three of them with an hourly rate at the price of an ordinary dentist.
Cost of education - 2,500 rubles per hour, regardless of the number of participants (from one to 5 people). When compared to the cost of other popular courses, one-on-one training lasting 3 hours or more can be cheaper than a whole course.
Topics of training and consultations on Project
The training program is individual for each student or group, and is drawn up based on the results of a preliminary interview. We offer the following popular and important topics that can be included in your training program:
- Professionally customize Microsoft Projects or project templates to suit your organization's needs:
- automatic indicators of task status (status, deviations in the pace of completion of volumes, delays in deadlines);
- setting up formulas in custom fields to calculate the required task indicators (planned % completion and volume of work as of the report date, planned balance, deviations in deadlines and pace of completion);
- setting up Gantt chart views and tables to group and display the required task indicators and assigned volumes;
- setting up for the manager for all indicators of the calendar plan (completed and remaining volumes, total mastered volumes, deviations by period and cumulative, budget development, etc.);
- setting up project templates to account for mutual settlements under contracts with contractors;
- setting up OLAP cube templates for automatically creating Excel charts and pivot tables for any MS Project task indicators.
- Consultations on completed settings for examples of your projects and problems that arise in MS Project.
- Setting up shared workspaces in cloud document storage for remote participants to access project data.
- Data integration between Excel documents and MS Project.
How to get a consultation
To book a training or consultation, you need to follow these steps.
If you need help working with MS Project, contact us now. For now, our experts together can allocate no more than 10 hours a week for consultations, so it is possible that in the future we will have to raise the cost of this service, or provide it by appointment.
Microsoft Project courses at GCDPO in Moscow - training in effective planning and project management at all stages: from tracking interrelated business processes to resource allocation (personnel, material, time) and preparation of reporting documentation.
Purpose of the course:
- develop skills in managing small and large projects using the tools of the Ms Project 2010/2013/2016 application.
Course audience:
- administrators and project managers;
- employees of companies whose responsibilities include monitoring the implementation of business plans, sales, IT projects, etc.
Learning outcome
Skill:
- install and configure Microsoft Project;
- analyze, optimize, adjust various projects in terms of costs and timing;
- implement resource and calendar planning;
- monitor project implementation and prepare final reports;
- resolve conflicts related to restrictions;
- exchange Ms Project data with other applications;
- administer a portfolio of projects in Microsoft Project Professional.
- export web page data;
- configure and administer the Project Server application.
Basic training requirements:
- Skills in working with Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point.
Course curriculum
Topic 1. Projects and project management. Creating a project.
Project classification
Project stages
Construction of a hierarchical work structure (WBS)
Development of network models
Scheduling using the critical path method (CPM)
Project resource planning
Cost analysis
Project execution and control
Creating a new project
Entering a set of works
Task list structure
Estimating task durations
Repetitive tasks
Linking tasks
Leading and lagging tasks
Milestone tasks
Types of Time Constraints
Deadlines.
Topic 2 Project resources.
Resource List Definitions
Additional resource characteristics
Resource Calendars
Types of tasks
Fixed volume field
Assigning Resources to Project Tasks
Microsoft Project views.
Topic 3. Analysis and optimization of the project plan.
Timing Analysis
Resource Load Analysis
Project cost analysis.
Topic 4. Project execution and control.
Fixing the project baseline
Entering real task execution data
Project progress monitoring
Print reports and views.
Topic 5. Managing multiple projects.
Inserting an external project into the current project
Creating connections between tasks in different projects
Creating a Shared Resource Pool
Opening projects that share a pool of resources
Modifying the shared resource pool file.
Topic 6. Exporting the project plan.
Copying charts to MS Office files
Export plan to files of other formats.
Year of manufacture: 2010
Publishing house: BHV-SPb
ISBN: 978-5-9775-0582-6
Chapter 1. Brief description of project management methods
- Projects and project management
- Organizational aspects of project management
- Project Management Processes
- Initiation processes
- Planning processes
- Execution Processes
- Monitoring and regulation processes
- Termination processes
- Project management standard and real management processes
- Knowledge Areas in Project Management
- Implementation of project management processes
- Brief description of network planning and management methods
Chapter 2. Quick start
- Characteristics of the content of the first project
- First experience with MS Project 2010
Chapter 3. Brief description of the MS Project project management system
- Project management systems
- Project management system MS Project
- Versions of the MS Project project management system
- Project Database
- Manage views of project schedule information in Project
- Quick Access Toolbar
- Menu feed
- Project Schedule Views
- Timeline
- Tables
- Filters
- Reports
- Basic elements of the Project interface
- Tasks and resources in Project
- Types of tasks
- Types of resources
- How to work with a table
- Selecting parts of a table
- Formatting text elements
- Managing Table Columns
- Sorting tables
- How to work with a Gantt chart
- How to work with resource loading tables
- How to work with a resource schedule
- How to use the Calendar view
- Calendar view context menu
- How to work with filters
- Additional options for formatting schedule task segments
- Access to information about the main elements of the project
- Description of project tasks
- Description of project resources
- Description of project objectives
- reference system Project 2010
- Managing UI Elements
Chapter 4: Using Project in the Pre-Planning Stage
- Recommendations for initiating projects
- Features of initiating small projects
- Preliminary project planning
- Planning the content and determining the structure of work at the preliminary planning stage
- Creating a New Project File
- Determining the composition of tasks and estimating the duration of their completion
- Formation of resource provision - labor costs
- Forming relationships between project schedule tasks
- Develop a preliminary project schedule
- Project cost estimation using Project
- Project budget and working with it
- How to create and format reports using Project
- Principles of breaking a report into sheets
- Printing screen forms
- Formatting printout sheets
- Standard reports
- Assessment of the financial viability of the project
- Formation of a basic project plan
- Defining Project Success Criteria
- Other Project Planning Processes in the Pre-Planning Stage
- Planning the scope of the project and determining the work structure at the preliminary planning stage
- Project Scope Planning
- Small project content planning
- Defining the scope of major projects
- About deploying large projects
- On the decomposition of large projects
- Features of high-tech projects
- Formation of project success criteria
- Quality planning
- Organizational planning
- Permanent organization and its impact on the project
- Role of the Project Manager
- Features of project management in matrix structures
- Communication planning
- Risk planning
- Contract planning
- Planning and change management
- Organization of work with documents in the project
- Personnel management and the influence of the human factor at the project initiation stage
Chapter 5: Detailed Project Planning with Project
- Project structures and data organization
- Project schedule details
- Recommendations for assessing project task indicators
- Recommendations for estimating labor costs
- Guidelines for estimating task durations
- Recommendations for estimating costs
- Analyzing and adjusting the detailed project schedule
- Features of time planning of a detailed project plan
- How to schedule resources using Project
- Features of other planning processes at the detailed planning stage
- Planning using the critical chain method
Chapter 6: Support project execution and analysis with Project
- Principles of accounting for progress and results of work using Project
- Advanced capabilities for working with different versions of charts
- Update the schedule based on task progress and results
- Visualization of work progress and identification of deviations of the current state of work from the basic plan
- How to manage the project implementation cycle and resources
- How to control the critical path
- How to shorten the critical path
- Monitoring resource requirements
- Managing resources in Project
- Work cycle management and resource loading - additional Project features
- Interrupting tasks
- Adjusting the detailed execution plan for the example project
- Analyzing financial resource needs using Project
- Management of financial resources during project implementation
- Project Execution Management
- Special situations in project management
- Supporting project management processes at the project execution stage
- Quality management at the project execution stage
- Change management during the project execution stage
- Project problem solving management
- Human factor in project management
- Create complex project schedules using Project
- Formation of complex graphs
- Sharing resources when implementing different projects
- Determining the execution sequence of tasks belonging to different schedules
- Work calendars in Project
- Creating and editing work calendars
- Support project team management features with Project
- Support for data analysis processes using the Project interface
- Using Visual Reports
- Rescheduling project dates
- Copying pictures for use in MS Office software products
- Project supports project completion processes
Chapter 7. The concept of project portfolios and corporate project management systems
- Project portfolios - a company management tool
- Characteristics of MS Project 2010 capabilities in corporate project management
- MS Project and corporate management systems
- Appendix 1. List of algorithms
- Chapter 3 Algorithms
- Chapter 4 Algorithms
- Chapter 5 Algorithms
- Chapter 6 Algorithms
- Chapter 8 Algorithms
- Chapter 9 Algorithms
- Appendix 2. Description of the CD
- Recommended reading
Microsoft Project Tutorial
● MS Project: Introduction to MS Project
INTRODUCING MS PROJECT
● MS Project: Chapter 1. Installation, launch and configuration
● MS Project: Chapter 2. Tables
● MS Project: Chapter 3. Sorting, grouping and filtering data in tables
● MS Project: Chapter 4. Gantt Chart
● MS Project: Chapter 5. Networks
● MS Project: Chapter 6. Calendar and Resource Schedule
● MS Project: Chapter 7. Task and resource usage diagrams
● MS Project: Chapter 8. Views and Forms
PLANNING
● MS Project: Chapter 9. Basics of planning and preparation for drawing up a plan
● MS Project: Chapter 10. Work planning
● MS Project: Chapter 11. Planning resources and creating assignments
● MS Project: Chapter 12. Additional information about tasks and resources
● MS Project: Chapter 13. Project cost planning, analysis and optimization of resource loading
● MS Project: Chapter 14. Analysis and optimization of the work plan and project cost
● MS Project: Chapter 15. Risk Analysis
● MS Project: Chapter 16. Approval of the project plan: data export
● MS Project: Chapter 17. Approval of the project plan: printing and making changes
TRACKING
● MS Project: Chapter 18. Project Tracking
● MS Project: Chapter 19. Collaboration
● MS Project: Chapter 20. Work progress analysis
● MS Project: Chapter 21. Report Preparation
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
● MS Project: Chapter 22. Features of the standard edition
● MS Project: Chapter 23. Installing and configuring MS Project Server
● MS Project: Chapter 24. Professional edition capabilities
MS Project: INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
At first glance, Microsoft Project appears to be another application in the Microsoft Office family, with a toolbar like Word and tables and graphs like Excel. But the deeper you get into Microsoft Project, the more differences you'll notice.
One of the key differences is the narrow scope of the program. While other applications in the Microsoft Office family are focused on a wide range of applications and contain a variety of functions, MS Project is intended exclusively for project management.
Another important difference is that it is impossible to work with MS Project without having theoretical knowledge in the field of project management and without knowing the features of this program. Anyone can open Word and prepare a document without first reading a book the size of the one in your hands. Of course, this user will not use styling commands, he may not be able to insert page numbers, etc. into the document, but the document will be ready for printing and can be used. If you open MS Project and try to create a project plan, then without special knowledge you will not be able to get a plan suitable for implementing the project.
Thus, if you want to manage projects using MS Project, then you cannot do without studying the theory of project management and the functionality of the program. And the book you are holding in your hands should help you with this.
What will you study
The book will introduce you to MS Project version 2002. With the release of this version, profound changes were made to the MS Project family. If the previous version consisted only of the MS Project 2000 desktop application and was supplemented by the MS Project Central server package, now the MS Project family includes three applications: the MS Project Standard and MS Project Professional desktop applications and the MS Project Server. In addition, MS Project Standard and MS Project Server version 2002 have been translated into Russian.
The standard and professional editions of MS Project are designed to create a project plan, which can then be published on the MS server
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Project Server for organizing collaboration on a project. Using MS Project Server, project team members receive tasks from the manager, report on the progress of their implementation, and delegate them to each other. The project manager, in accordance with data received from employees, monitors the progress of work, and the organization's management analyzes the workload of employees and the status of all projects carried out in the organization.
The DBMS used by MS Project Central, the predecessor of MS Project Server, could be either Oralce or MS SQL Server. MS Project Server
can only use MS SQL Server versions 7 and higher as a DBMS.
The package is designed for collaboration on project documents
Share-Point Team Services, included in the MS Project Server distribution. This package uses MS SQL Server as a DBMS, and its capabilities are available in both the standard and professional editions of MS Project.
Differences between the standard edition and the professional edition
If your organization does not use MS Project Server, then the differences between the standard and professional editions will not be noticeable, since they are related to the capabilities of using MS Project Server.
The combination of MS Project 2002 standard edition and MS Project Server is designed for collaboration of small groups on projects. The combination of the professional edition of MS Project 2002 and the server is intended for working on projects in a large organization. Therefore, when using the professional edition, the server allows you to carry out operations necessary for a large enterprise, such as centralized storage of project templates and a list of enterprise employees. In addition, the professional version provides tools for automated selection of employees for a project based on their skills, and it is also possible to predict the workload of the enterprise, taking into account certain scenarios for the development of events.
MS Project Server is released in one edition and can be used with both the standard and professional editions of MS Project 2002, and even with MS Project 2000. Performing professional operations on the server is only possible when using MS Project 2002 Professional.
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How to choose an edition and what you will need to install
If you plan to work with MS Project without using collaboration tools, then you need to install the program in the standard edition. If you plan to collaborate on projects within a small group, then the standard edition of the desktop application in combination with MS Project Server is suitable for you. In this case, you do not need to install the MS SQL Server DBMS, since MS Project Server includes its shortened version, intended for use with the standard edition.
And finally, if you need to use the corporate capabilities of the package, then install the professional edition of the desktop application and the MS Project Server. In this case, you will need to install MS SQL Server version 7 or higher. For analytical operations used in the professional edition, the DBMS must support OLAP, that is, the Analysis Services package must be installed on the MS SQL Server server.
What's new in version 2002
First of all, the server part of the product underwent changes, which was significantly redesigned. But there were some changes in desktop applications, although they mostly affected the program interface. The most important among them are the appearance of the Project Guide panel (Consultant) and the ability to view MS Project Server pages directly in the MS Project window. Planning tools have been enhanced with the ability to store multiple project baselines and analyze earned value based on alternative task completion percentage data. A list of new features and links to pages that describe working with changed program elements are given in the alphabetical index at the end of the book.
How will you learn MS Project 2002
This course is divided into four parts. In the first part, you will get acquainted with the program interface in order to find out the capabilities of the tool that you will have to work with in the future. No theoretical knowledge in the field of project management is required: you will master the principles of working with tables and charts, learn how to enter, edit, sort, group and filter data.
In Part 2, we'll move on to creating a project plan. In the lessons in this part, you will create your own project plan and at the same time
MS Project: INTRODUCTION
Through planning practice you will study the theory of project management. You will learn how to define scope of work, how to allocate resources, plan costs and risks, how to distribute a file for approval, and compare project versions.
In the third part, you will learn how to monitor the project, that is, monitor the implementation of the project plan and make necessary changes to the plan as work progresses. In this part of the book, you will learn how to work with MS Project Server and organize collaboration with it. As in the previous part, practical materials will be preceded by theoretical ones. You will learn how to maintain the original project plan, assign tasks to employees, organize the collection of progress data, analyze the collected data, and prepare reports.
The fourth part talks about additional features of MS Project 2002. You will learn how to work with important, but not so often used tools
standard edition of MS Project and how to use the most valuable features of the professional edition and MS Project Server.
Example files
Each lesson is accompanied by example files, links to which are provided in the text. The files are located on the CD included with the book in the \Bogdanov folder.
In order to use the examples, you need to go to the main menu and enter the EXAMPLES directory. The examples themselves are located in the Samples subfolder, and
after copying the \Bogdanov folder to disk, the path to it will look like C:\Bogdanov\Samples. The examples are located in subfolders with lesson numbers, for example, the files for lesson 2 are located in the folder C:\Bogdanov\Samples\CH02.
In the text of the lessons, links are given only to file names without specifying the path. For example, if lesson 10 provides a link to example 1.mpp, then this file is located in the C:\Bogdanov\Samples\CH10 folder. In cases where the author refers to an example file related to another lesson, the name of the folder is appended to the file name.
When preparing the examples, a step-by-step principle was used, that is, changes are made to the project sequentially from file to file. In addition, the files were created so that when they were opened, the appearance of the project matched the illustrations in the book. We strived to create such
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examples that could be used in practice. You can copy the tables, filters, reports, groups, custom fields and views we created into your project and use them to solve practical problems.
The example files were prepared in the English version of Microsoft Project 2002 Standard and tested in the localized version. Therefore, when opening these examples in the Russian version of MS Project 2002, located on the CD included with the book, duplicate names of some views and tables will be displayed in the menu. If you have no problems with English, then you can work with the localized version as if it were in English. To do this, after installing the program, close it and find the Global.mpt file on your disk. One copy will be located in the folder where you install MS Project 2002, and replace the second copy found with the Global.mpt file,
located in the folder \Bogdanov\Samples\TEMPLATE.
At the end of each part of the book there is a list of check questions and tasks. They are grouped by lesson topics, and the answers to them can be found in the text of the lessons. The assignment files are located in the folders C:\Bogdanov\Samples\TEST with the part number added, for example, the assignment files for the second part of the book are located in the folder C:\Bogdanov\Samples\TEST2.
Index file
For your convenience, we have created an index file with which you can quickly download the necessary example files. This file is called
index.mpp and is located in the C:\Bogdanov folder. When you open this file, the Project Guide panel (Consultant) loads, which contains a link to view a list of examples for any of the course lessons. Once you select a lesson, you will see a list of examples with descriptions. When you click on the name of the example, the file with the example will open in MS Project (Fig. 1.1).
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Rice. 1.1. After clicking on the View button, a dialog for entering the lesson number opens, and after entering the lesson number in the table next to the Consultant panel, links to example files for the lesson with comments are displayed
In addition, using the Project Guide panel (Consultant), you can view tables with links to the most important pages of the MS Project help system and to files of additional software that can be installed with MS Project (Fig. 1.2).
Basic terms
In the lessons of the first part of the book, you may encounter some terms. We will dwell on them in detail at the beginning of the second part, when you learn to plan a project, but so that you do not have any questions when reading the first part, we will list the main terms and give their definitions.
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A project consists of tasks, that is, activities aimed at achieving a certain result. In order for a task to be completed, resources are allocated to it - material (equipment) and workers (employees). Allocating a resource to a task is called an assignment, and a task can have an unlimited number of assignments.
Tasks can be combined into groups (or phases), and a task that combines others is called a summary task. Closing tasks, that is, tasks whose completion leads to the achievement of an important project result or completes a phase, are called milestones.
A task has a duration, that is, the time required to complete it. In addition, a task is characterized by the amount of effort (scope of work) and the costs (or cost) required to complete it.
MS Project: INTRODUCTION
In a project plan, tasks are linked through dependencies, which define the order in which tasks are performed relative to each other. The duration of a project consists of the time intervals from the start of the earliest task to the end of the latest, taking into account dependencies between tasks. If increasing the duration of a task increases the duration of the entire project, the task is called critical.
If you come across other terms while reading Part 1, you can find explanations of them using the index at the end of the book.
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