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Project 2007 Essential Training

with Lorna Daly

Covering everything from the basics of project management to the ins and outs of integrating Project 2007 with other Office applications, Project 2007 Essential Training is a comprehensive and valuable course. Instructor Lorna A. Daly teaches users how to work with Project 2007 to best analyze and manage business ventures of any scope. She explains how to organize resources and assign work, how to streamline processes and resolve project conflicts, and how to customize and optimize Project 2007 for future tasks. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

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author: Lorna Daly
subject: Business, Project Management
software: Project 2007
level: Beginner

duration: 4h 0m
released: Aug 10, 2007

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Project Management Fundamentals

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Introduction 2m 24s

Welcome 54s

How to use the exercise files 1m 30s

1. Getting Started with Project 2007 12m 49s

Project management basics 7m 20s

Why use Microsoft Project? 2m 50s

What's changed in Project 2007? 2m 39s

2. Setting Up Project 2007 10m 50s

Initial overview 2m 16s

Initial setup 3m 36s

Using the Project Guide 1m 48s

Creating a new project 3m 10s

3. Working with Tasks 26m 35s

Entering tasks 2m 9s

Creating subtasks 4m 5s

Inserting, copying, and moving tasks 4m 22s

Dates and task duration 4m 56s

Changing timescale 2m 57s

Establishing deadlines and milestones 3m 8s

Repeating tasks 2m 4s

Entering and printing task notes 2m 54s

4. Creating Relationships Between Tasks 22m 26s

Task dependencies within a project 3m 6s

Creating dependencies 3m 58s

Dependency types and lag times 4m 13s

Viewing and deleting dependencies 5m 14s

Different types of constraints 2m 53s

Dealing with conflicts 3m 2s

5. Managing Resources and Assignments 19m 48s

Adding resources to your project 2m 44s

Creating a resource list 5m 7s

Distributing project work 5m 47s

Removing or replacing resources 2m 16s

Viewing resource assignments 3m 54s

6. Managing Costs 15m 19s

Assigning project costs 2m 38s

Exploring costs 5m 48s

Fixed costs and accruing costs 4m 8s

Viewing a project's costs 2m 45s

7. Reviewing Your Projects 13m 53s

About views 5m 17s

Creating a view 4m 9s

Combination views 4m 27s

8. Working with Tables 15m 49s

Understanding and viewing tables 5m 47s

Creating or editing a table 6m 46s

Adjusting tables 3m 16s

9. Printing Your Projects 6m 21s

Preparing to print and Print Preview 2m 9s

Page setup options 4m 12s

10. Critical Paths 17m 28s

Identifying the critical path 6m 27s

Using the Critical Path wizard 4m 3s

Shortening the critical path 6m 58s

11. Resolving Resource Conflicts 18m 3s

How to identify conflicts 5m 5s

Basic conflict resolution techniques 4m 9s

Leveling resource assignments 8m 49s

12. Establishing Baselines 10m 14s

Overview of tracking principles 4m 1s

Setting a baseline 3m 34s

Working with interim plans 2m 39s

13. Updating Your Projects 12m 23s

Tracking basics 4m 19s

Tracking progress 4m 59s

Using timephased fields 3m 5s

14. Reporting 19m 29s

Understanding reporting 3m 5s

Analyzing the Overview report 3m 32s

Analyzing the Current Activities report 2m 41s

Analyzing the Costs report 2m 51s

Analyzing the Assignments report 2m 13s

Analyzing the Workload report 1m 13s

Creating custom reports 3m 54s

15. Integrating with Office 10m 5s

Copying project data into other applications 4m 29s

Linking projects 3m 36s

Import an Outlook task into Project 2m 0s

16. Customizing and Optimizing Your Projects 6m 20s

Setting defaults 3m 4s

Creating a Project template 1m 55s

Using a Project template 1m 21s

Conclusion 15s

Goodbye 15s

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