2015
Lynda
John Riopel and Bonnie Biafore
0:57
English

Learn how to manage projects with time constraints and fast-track schedules with Microsoft Project. This course, taught by expert project manager John Riopel, shows how to verify project schedules by checking task links, checking lag between tasks, removing unnecessary date constraints, and more. He then shows how to review the schedule and display the critical path, use multiple critical paths, and find incomplete paths. Then find out how to shorten the schedule by fast-tracking tasks, shortening lag time, using crashing, reducing scope, and assigning overtime. Finally, learn how to best execute the schedule, setting a baseline and entering actuals for the project.
The course includes a sample Project file with before-and-after examples, so you can jump into the course at any point and compare your work to the author's.

Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files
1. Checking Your Project Schedule
Making tasks automatically scheduled or manually scheduled
Checking task links
Adding lag or lead between tasks
What does the Deadline field do?
Tracking deadlines with formatted taskbars
Adding buffers to your schedule
Managing buffers
2. Reviewing the Schedule
Displaying the critical path and slack
Fixing an incomplete critical path
Filtering to show the critical path
Filtering to show multiple critical paths
Setting a baseline
Looking for schedule problems
3. Shortening the Schedule
Fast-tracking tasks
Shortening lag time between tasks
Understanding crashing
Finding the best tasks to crash
Adding resources to tasks to shorten duration
Using different resources to shorten duration
Reducing scope
Assigning overtime
4. Executing the Schedule
Resetting a baseline
Entering actuals for a time-constrained project
Conclusion
Next steps


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