Microsoft Power BI

MS Project: Tracking Progress and Formatting Plan

Course Duration: 90 Minutes

Target Audience:

All employees of organisations who engage in projects and who would benefit from having a detailed understanding of how projects are best planned, executed, monitored and controlled to ensure a successful outcome.

Course Objectives:

This topic will cover additional task options within a project, understand task types, and tracking your tasks during the project lifecycle. It will also cover formatting and some customising to display information with effect.

Course Outline:

Course Introduction

  • Recap on Microsoft Project Set-Up

Planning with Microsoft Project

  • Entering Recurring Tasks and Splitting Tasks
  • Attaching Notes and Hyperlinks to Tasks
  • Adding Time Constraints
  • Setting Deadlines
  • Using Task Types
  • Formatting Milestones, Text and Bars
  • Displaying Outline Tasks
  • Showing Outline Numbers
  • Grouping Tasks
  • Filtering Tasks
  • Marking Tasks On-Track
  • Updating Tasks
  • Updating Task Status (On Schedule, Late)
  • Displaying the Critical Path
  • Printing the Project and Setting Page Layouts (Headers / Footers / Legends)

Course Summary and Review