Managing Time-Constrained Projects with Microsoft Project

Contents

• Introduction Introduction

  • Welcome

    1m 1s
  • Using the exercise files

    33s
• 1. Checking Your Project Schedule 1. Checking Your Project Schedule

  • Making tasks automatically scheduled or manually scheduled

    2m 20s
  • Checking task links

    4m 52s
  • Adding lag or lead between tasks

    1m 23s
  • What does the Deadline field do?

    1m 21s
  • Tracking deadlines with formatted taskbars

    2m 51s
  • Adding buffers to your schedule

    3m 45s
  • Managing buffers

    1m 11s
• 2. Reviewing the Schedule 2. Reviewing the Schedule

  • Displaying the critical path and slack

    1m 9s
  • Fixing an incomplete critical path

    3m 12s
  • Filtering to show the critical path

    1m 6s
  • Filtering to show multiple critical paths

    1m 28s
  • Setting a baseline

    1m 57s
  • Looking for schedule problems

    3m 17s
• 3. Shortening the Schedule 3. Shortening the Schedule

  • Fast-tracking tasks

    56s
  • Adjusting lag time between tasks

    48s
  • Understanding crashing

    6m 46s
  • Finding the best tasks to crash

    2m 2s
  • Adding resources to tasks to shorten duration

    2m 40s
  • Using different resources to shorten duration

    51s
  • Reducing scope

    54s
  • Working with a task calendar

    3m 1s
• 4. Executing the Schedule 4. Executing the Schedule

  • Resetting a baseline

    1m 43s
  • Entering actuals for a time-constrained project

    7m 29s
• Conclusion Conclusion

  • Next steps

    1m 26s