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Microsoft Official Academic Course

Microsoft Project 2013

Microsoft® Official Academic Course

Microsoft® Project 2013

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Preface

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Illustrated Book Tour

Pedagogical Features

Many pedagogical features have been developed specifically for Microsoft Official Academic Course programs. Unique features of our task-based approach include a Lesson Skill Matrix Workplace Ready, and Step by Step exercises; and three levels of increasingly rigorous lesson- ending activities: Competency, Proficiency, and Mastery Assessment.

Presenting the extensive procedural information and technical concepts woven throughout the textbook raises challenges for the student and instructor alike. The Illustrated Book Tour that follows provides a guide to the rich features contributing to Microsoft Official Academic Course program’s pedagogical plan. Following is a list of key features in the lessons, which are designed to prepare students for success on the certification exams and in the workplace:

• Lesson Skill Matrix: Each lesson begins with a lesson skill matrix. This feature outlines all the topics covered in the lesson.

• Business Cases: Each lesson features a real-world business case scenario that places the software skills and knowledge to be acquired in a real-world setting.

• Software Orientation: Every lesson includes a software orientation. This feature pro- vides an overview of the software features students will be working with in the lesson. The orientation will detail the general properties of the software or specific features, such as a ribbon or dialog box, and it includes a large, labeled screen image.

• Step-by-Step Instructions: Concise and frequent step-by-step instructions teach stu- dents new features and provide an opportunity for hands-on practice. Numbered steps give detailed instructions to help students learn software skills. The steps also show results and screen images to match what students should see on their computer screens.

• Illustrations: Screen images provide visual feedback as students work through the exercises. The images reinforce key concepts, provide visual clues about the steps, and allow students to check their progress.

• Button Images: When the text instructs a student to click a particular button, an image of that button is shown in the margin or in the text.

• Key Terms: Important technical vocabulary is listed at the beginning of the lesson. When these terms are used later in the lesson, they appear in bold italic type and are defined. The Glossary contains all of the key terms and their definitions.

• Reader Aids: Engaging point-of-use reader aids, located throughout the lessons, tell students why this topic is relevant (The Bottom Line), provide students with helpful hints (Take Note), show alternate ways to accomplish tasks (Another Way), or point out things to watch out for or avoid (Troubleshooting). Reader aids also provide additional relevant or background information that adds value to the lesson.

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• Skill Summary: Each lesson ends with a recapping of the skills covered in the lesson.

• Knowledge Assessment: Provides a total of 20 questions from a mix of True/False, Fill-in-the-Blank, Matching, or Multiple Choice, testing students on concepts learned in the lesson.

• Competency, Proficiency, and Mastery Assessment: Provide three progressively more challenging lesson-ending activities.

• Circling Back: These integrated projects provide students with an opportunity to renew and practice skills learned in previous lessons.

• Online Files: The student companion website contains the data files needed for each lesson. These files are indicated by the icon in the margin of the textbook.

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Lesson Features

Lesson Skill Matrix

Key Terms

Step-by-Step Exercises

The Bottom Line

Another Way Reader Aid

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3 Resource and Task Assignments

LESSON

As the video production manager at Southridge Video, you are working on a new music video for Don Funk, an up-and-coming singer/songwriter. You fi rst mapped out the initial tasks in the project, then identifi ed the resources needed to complete the tasks in the project. Now you need to put the two together. When you make assignments (link resources and tasks), Microsoft Project 2013 can provide several key pieces of information including: who is working on what tasks and when; if the resources are available when you need them to be, or are over-allocated; and more. In this lesson, you will learn how to assign work, material, and cost resources to a task and how to use the Actions tag to affect Project’s scheduling behavior.

K E Y T E R M S actions tag assignment duration formula effort-driven scheduling units work work formula

L E S S O N S K I L L M A T R I X

SKILLS TASKS

Assigning Work Resources to Tasks Make individual resource assignments

Assign multiple resources simultaneously

Adding More Work Resource Assignments to Tasks Add work resources to a task

Add work resources to an effort-driven task

Use the Actions tag to change Project’s scheduling behavior

Assigning Material Resources to Tasks Assign a material resource to a task

Assigning Cost Resources to Tasks Assign a cost resource to a task

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ESTABLISH EQUIPMENT RESOURCES

USE the project schedule you created in the previous exercise.

1. In the Resource Sheet, click the next empty cell in the Resource Name column. 2. Click the Resource tab and then click the Information button in the Properties group;

the Resource Information dialog box appears.

Establishing Equipment Resources

THE BOTTOM LINE

Setting up equipment resources in Microsoft Project is very similar to setting up people resources. There are key differences, however, in the way equipment resources can be scheduled.

Establishing Equipment Resources

You don’t need to track every piece of equipment that will be used in your project. It will be helpful, though, to track equipment resources when you need to schedule and track equipment costs or when the equipment might be needed my multiple people at the same time. In this exercise, you learn how to establish the equipment resources for your project.

3. If it is not already displayed, click the General tab in the Resource Information dialog box.

4. In the Resource Name fi eld, type Digital Truck-Mounted Video Camera. 5. In the Type fi eld, select Work from the drop-down menu. Your screen should look

similar to Figure 2-5. Notice that the Resource Information dialog box contains many of the same fi elds as the Resource Sheet.

Figure 2-5

Resource Information dialog box with newly added resource

Resource name field

Resource type field

You can also activate the Resource Information dialog box by double-clicking a resource name or an empty cell in the Resource Name column.

ANOTHER WAY

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Screen Images with Callouts

File Download icon

Project Information: Sorting, Grouping, and Filtering | 143

Microsoft Project’s Sort Dialog Box In Microsoft Project, you can use the Sort dialog box to sort task or resource information in the current view by a specifi ed fi eld or fi elds (see Figure 7-1).

SO F T W A R E OR I E N T A T I O N

Sorting Data

THE BOTTOM LINE It is easiest to review and utilize data in Microsoft Project when you have it organized to fi t your needs. The simplest way to reorganize task and resource data in Project is by sorting.

SORT DATA IN A RESOURCE VIEW

GET READY. Before you begin these steps, launch Microsoft Project. OPEN the Don Funk Music Video 7M from the data fi les for this lesson. SAVE the fi le as Don Funk Music Video 7 in the solutions folder for this lesson as directed by your instructor.

1. Click the View tab, and then click Resource Sheet. The Resource Sheet view appears. The default table in the Resource Sheet view is the Entry table. However, you want to look at the cost per resource, which is not displayed in the Entry table.

2. On the ribbon, click the Tables button in the Data group and then select Summary. The Summary table appears in the Resource Sheet view.

3. Auto fi t the columns so the data can be easily read. Your screen should look similar to Figure 7-2.

Figure 7-1

Sort dialog box

The Sort dialog box enables you to select up to three fi elds for three levels of sorts within sorts, to choose whether the view should be sorted in ascending or descending order, and to indicate whether items should be permanently renumbered according to the sort.

Ascending & Descending sort options for each levelPrimary Sort

Secondary Sort

Tertiary Sort

Permanently renumber resources check box

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Troubleshooting Reader Aid

Summary Skill Matrix

Easy-to-Read Tables

Cross- Reference Reader Aid

20 | Lesson 1

lunch each day. Microsoft Project differentiates between working and nonworking time, so the duration of a task doesn’t always correspond to elapsed time. If you estimate that a task will take 24 hours of working time, you would enter its duration as 3d to schedule the task over three 8-hour workdays. If this task were to start at 8:00 A.M. on Thursday, it would not be completed until 5:00 P.M. on Monday. No work is scheduled on evenings or weekends because these have been defi ned as nonworking times.

You can also schedule tasks to occur over working and nonworking time by assigning an elapsed duration to a task. Elapsed duration is the total length of working and nonworking time you expect it will take to complete a task. Suppose you own an automobile body shop. In the process of repainting a car, you have the tasks “Apply rustproof undercoat” and “Apply fi rst color overcoat.” You also need a task called “Wait for undercoat to dry” because you cannot apply the color paint until the undercoat is dry. The task “Wait for undercoat to dry” will have an elapsed duration because the undercoat will dry over a contiguous range of hours, whether they are working or nonworking. If the undercoat takes 24 hours to cure, you would enter the duration for this task as 1ed (or 1 elapsed day). If you scheduled it to start at 11 A.M. on Wednesday, it would be complete at 11 A.M. on Thursday.

Table 1-1 shows abbreviations and meanings for actual and elapsed times in Microsoft Project.

Table 1-2

Abbreviations and meanings for actual and elapsed times

IF YOU ENTER THIS ABBREVIATION IT APPEARS LIKE THIS AND MEANS

m min minute

h hr hour

d day day

w wk week

mo mon month

em emin elapsed minute

eh ehr elapsed hour

ed eday elapsed day

ew ewk elapsed week

emo emon elapsed month

TROUBLESHOOTING

For most projects, you will use task durations of hours, days, and weeks. When estimating task durations, think carefully about the level of detail you want to apply to your project’s tasks. If you have a multiyear project, it is probably not practical or even possible to track tasks that are measured in minutes or hours. You should measure task durations at the lowest level of detail or control necessary, but no lower.

Although the task durations are supplied for you for the exercises in this book, you and the project team will have to estimate task durations for most real-world projects. There are a number of sources of task duration estimates:

• Information from previous, similar projects

• Estimates from the people who will actually complete the tasks

• Recommendations from people who have managed similar projects

• Professional or industry organizations that deal with the project subject ma t ter

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S K I L L S U M M A R Y

IN THIS LESSON YOU LEARNED: MATRIX SKILL

To establish people resources Establish individual people resources

Establish a resource that represents multiple people

To establish equipment resources Establish equipment resources

To establish material resources Establish material resources

To establish cost resources Establish cost resources

To establish resource pay rates Enter resource cost information

To adjust resource working times Establish nonworking times for an individual work resource

Establish a specifi c work schedule for a resource

To add resource notes Attach a note to a resource

Knowledge Assessment

Matching

Match the term in column 1 to its description in column 2.

Column 1

1. resource calendar

2. Max. Units

3. material resource

4. project calendar

5. cost resource

6. work resource

7. base calendar

8. availability

9. resources

10. note

Column 2

a. the maximum capacity of a resource to accomplish tasks

b. specifi es default working and nonworking times for a resource, a project, or a task

c. when and how much of a resource’s time can be assigned to work on tasks

d. the people and equipment that do work to accomplish the tasks of the project

e. the people, equipment, money, and materials used to complete the tasks in a project

f. a way of documenting information about resources, tasks, and assignments

g. consumable items used up as the tasks in a project are accomplished

h. a resource that doesn’t depend on the amount of work on a task or the duration of a task

i. the base calendar that provides default working times for an entire project

j. defi nes the working and nonworking time for an individual resource

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ESTABLISH A PROJECT BASELINE

GET READY. Before you begin these steps, launch Microsoft Project.

1. OPEN the Don Funk Music Video 9 M project schedule from the data fi les for this lesson.

2. SAVE the fi le as Don Funk Music Video 9 in the solutions folder for this lesson as directed by your instructor.

3. Click the Project tab. In the Schedule group, click the Set Baseline button and then select Set Baseline.

4. The Set Baseline dialog box appears. You will accept all of the default settings in this dialog box by clicking OK.

Microsoft Project saves the baseline, although there is no indication in the Gantt Chart view that anything has changed. In the next few steps, you will explore some of the changes caused by saving the baseline.

5. On the ribbon, click the View tab and then click the down-arrow under Gantt Chart. Select More Views, and the More Views dialog box appears.

6. In the More Views box, select Task Sheet and click Apply. Using this view, there is more room to see the fi elds in the table because the Gantt Chart is not shown. Now you will switch to a different table in the Task Sheet view.

7. On the ribbon, click Tables, and then click Variance. The Variance table appears. This table includes both the Scheduled and Baseline columns so that you can compare them easily. Your screen should look similar to Figure 9-2.

You will go deeper into the Set Baseline dialog box in Lesson 11. Cross

Ref

You can save up to eleven baselines in a single project schedule. The baselines are named Baseline (the fi rst baseline you would normally save) and Baseline 1 through Baseline 10. Saving multiple baselines is helpful if your project duration is especially long or if you have approved scope/schedule changes. You can save multiple baselines to record different sets of baseline values and later compare these against each other and against actual values.

TAKE NOTE*

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Take Note Reader Aid

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Proficiency Assessment Projects

Knowledge Assessment Questions Knowledge Assessment Fill in the Blank

Complete the following sentences by writing the correct word or words in the blanks provided.

1. enables you to see on your screen what will print on paper before you print it.

2. People or organizations that might be affected by project activities are called .

3. If you have two views displayed in a combination view and want to print the view, only the view in the pane will print.

4. When previewing a view in print preview, you can change the number of pages visible by selecting either the or pages button.

5. A common activity for project managers is to information from the project schedule to share with stakeholders.

6. To add your company name so that it prints at the top of every page, use the dialog box to add the company name to the header.

7. A is a predefi ned format intended for printing Microsoft Project data.

8. A report is used to represent high-level information usually on one page.

9. If subtasks are hidden in a view, reports that contain task lists will include only tasks.

10. In a report, you can only information.

Multiple Choice

Select the best response for the following statements.

1. In a view, you can information.

a. enter

b. edit

c. print

d. All of the above are correct.

2. If assignments are hidden under tasks or resources in a usage view, what will the usage report show?

a. tasks or resources with corresponding assignment details

b. only the tasks or resources

c. only overallocated assignment details

d. it depends on how you set up the report

3. In the Print Preview window, the status bar shows “4 rows by 3 columns.” How many pages will be printed?

a. 7

b. 4

c. 12

d. 3

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74 | Lesson 3

Project 3-3: Offi ce Remodel Material Resources

You now need to assign material resources to tasks in your offi ce remodel project schedule.

OPEN Offi ce Remodel 3-3 from the data fi les for this lesson.

1. Open the Assign Resources dialog box using the button on the Resource ribbon. 2. Select task 9, Install drywall. 3. In the Assign Resources dialog box, assign drywall as a resource and then assign 50

units for the drywall resource.

4. In the Assign Resources dialog box, assign nails as a resource and then assign 5 units for the nails resource.

5. Close the Assign Resources dialog box. 6. SAVE the project as Offi ce Remodel Material Resources and then CLOSE the fi le.

LEAVE Project open for the next exercise.

Project 3-4: Don Funk Video – Change Project’s Behavior Using Actions tag

Although you have already assigned most of the resources for your music video, you have realized that you need to assign additional resources for a few of the tasks. You can use an Actions tag to do this.

OPEN Don Funk Music Video 3-4 from the data fi les for this lesson.

1. Select task 7, Book Musicians. 2. Activate the Assign Resources dialog box. 3. Click on Brenda Diaz, and then assign her to the task. 4. Use the Actions tag to indicate that you want to reduce the number of hours

resources work per day (units), but keep the same duration and work.

5. Close the Assign Resources dialog box. 6. SAVE the project schedule as Don Funk Actions and then CLOSE the fi le.

LEAVE Project open to use in the next exercise.

Profi ciency Assessment

Project 3-5: Don Funk Cost Resources

In this exercise, you will assign cost resources for the Don Funk Music Video.

OPEN the Don Funk Music Video 3-5 from the data fi les for this lesson.

1. Open the Assign Resources dialog box. 2. For task 6, Identify and reserve locations, assign Travel as a resource at a cost of

5000. 3. For task 18, Scene 1 vocal recording, assign Food as a resource at a cost of 250. 4. Close the Assign Resources dialog box. 5. SAVE the project schedule as Don Funk Cost Resources and then CLOSE the fi le.

LEAVE Project open for the next exercise.

Mastery Assessment

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Competency Assessment

Project 7-1: Sorting by Multiple Criteria

You have some additional setup work that needs to be completed before the shooting of one of the Don Funk Music Video scenes can begin. Because you will need to pay overtime (time and one-half ) for this additional work, you would like to get a volunteer who has a low standard rate. Sort your resources according to Standard Rate and Max Units so that you can make your request from the least-cost group of employees.

GET READY. Launch Microsoft Project if it is not already running.

OPEN Don Funk Music Video 7-1 from the data fi les for this lesson.

1. Click the View ribbon, then in the Resource Views group, click Resource Sheet. 2. On the ribbon, click Sort, and then click Sort by. 3. In the Sort by section select Type from the dropdown menu. Next to that, click

Descending. 4. In the fi rst Then by section, select Standard Rate from the dropdown menu. Next to

that, click Descending. 5. In the last Then by section, select Max Units from the dropdown menu. Next to that,

click on Descending. Make sure the Permanently renumber resources box is not checked. 6. Click the Sort button.

7. SAVE the project schedule as Don Funk Standard Rate Sort and then CLOSE the fi le. LEAVE Project open for the next exercise.

Project 7-2: Apply HR Filter

You are reviewing your project schedule for hiring a new employee. You want to specifi cally review the staff members from the Human Resources (HR) department who are involved with this project. You need to apply a fi lter that will screen out any staff except HR. OPEN Hiring New Employee 7-2 from the data fi les for this lesson.

1. Click the View ribbon and then click Resource Sheet. 2. Click the down-arrow in the Group column heading, point to Filters and then click

[Custom . . .]. 3. In the Group section, select contains from the dropdown list in the fi rst box if it is

not already visible. In the adjacent box, type HR. 4. Click the OK button.

5. SAVE the project schedule as Hiring New Employee HR Filter and then CLOSE the project schedule.

PAUSE. LEAVE Project open to use in the next exercise.

Profi ciency Assessment

Project 7-3: Resource Groups by Standard Rate for Don Funk Music Video

You are working on employee reviews and pay increases for your staff for the upcoming year. You have decided it would be benefi cial to be able to look at the standard rate variation within resource groups working on this project. You need to set up a custom group that will enable you to do this. OPEN Don Funk Music Video 7-3 from the data fi les for this lesson.

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Competency Assessment Projects

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Circling Back Exercises

198 | Lesson 9

Project 9 - 5 : Offi ce Remodel Task Delay

You have just been informed that while the plumber was re-running the pipes for the offi ce lunchroom remodel, a pipe burst and the fl oor was fl ooded with several inches of water. It will take a week to clean and dry the water damage. You need to reschedule the remaining work on incomplete tasks to restart when the cleanup is complete.

OPEN the Offi ce Remodel 9- 5 project schedule from the data fi les for this lesson.

1. Activate the Update Project dialog box. 2 . Reschedule uncompleted work to start after Thursday, October 22, 2016.

3 . SAVE the project schedule as Offi ce Remodel Reschedule , and then CLOSE the fi le. LEAVE Project open to use in the next exercise.

Project 9 - 6 : Tracking the Don Funk Music Video as Scheduled

The last phase of the Don Funk Music Video, Post-Production, is going well. Tasks are being completed on schedule. You want to update the project to show that the tasks are complete through a specifi ed current date.

OPEN the Don Funk Music Video 9- 6 project schedule from the data fi les for this lesson.

1. Activate the Update Project dialog box. 2. Update the project as complete through July 15, 2016.

3. Scroll the Gantt Chart bars so that the task and progress bars on the week of July 10, 2016 are visible.

4. SAVE the project schedule as Don Funk On Schedule , and then CLOSE the fi le. CLOSE Project.

Mastery Assessment

OPEN Don Funk Music Video 9- 4 from the data fi les for this lesson.

1. Activate the Project Statistics box to view the costs for the project. 2. Display the Cost table. 3. Filter the tasks to show only the tasks that are over budget.

4. Collapse all Production Scene summary tasks (hide subtasks) except for the Scene summary task with the greatest cost variance

5. SAVE the project schedule as Don Funk Overbudget , and then CLOSE the fi le. LEAVE Project open to use in the next exercise.

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Circling Back | 117

Mete Goktepe is a project management specialist at Woodgrove Bank. The management at Woodgrove has recently decided that the eight-year old commercial lending software currently in use is outdated and needs to be replaced. Mete has been assigned as the project manager for the Request For Proposal (RFP) process to evaluate and select new software. This process entails determining needs, identifying vendors, requesting proposals, reviewing proposals, and selecting the software.

Project 1: Entering Tasks

Acting as Mete, you fi rst need to enter project information and then enter and organize the tasks for this project.

GET READY. Launch Project if it is not already running.

1. In the New section of the Backstage area, double-click Blank Project. 2. On the Tasks tab, in the Tasks command group, click the Mode button. From the list,

click Auto Schedule. 3. Click the Project tab, then click Project Information. Set the start date to May 2,

2016. 4. SAVE the project plan as RFP Bank Software Tasks. 5. In the Properties group on the ribbon, click the Change Working Time button. 6. Add the following exception dates:

• Memorial Day to begin on May 30, 2016 and to occur yearly on the last Monday of May for 2 occurrences.

• Independence Day to begin on July 4, 2016 and to occur yearly on July 4 for 2 occurrences.

• Labor Day to begin on September 5, 2016 and to occur the fi rst Monday of September for 2 occurrences

• Thanksgiving Day to begin on November 24, 2016 and to occur on the fourth Thursday of November for 2 occurrences

7. Click OK to close the Change Working Time dialog box. 8. In the Gantt Chart view, enter the following task names and durations (enter all tasks,

even if no duration is listed). [This is a partial list of tasks in the project plan. Additional data will be available in future exercises.]

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Author Credits

Gregg D. Richie Gregg D. Richie, PMP, MCTS is the founding member and managing partner of P8, LLC, which is a consulting firm that provides consulting and training in project management tech- niques, including advanced usage and application of Microsoft Project. He is an adjunct faculty member teaching project planning and risk management for the University of Washington’s Project Management Certificate Program. With more than 30 years of experience in the field of project management, working on projects on almost every continent, he travels all over the world as an international project management consultant and speaker. He joined the US Navy in 1979 and is a 20-year veteran of the SEABEES, which is the self-sustained, combat-trained construction force for the US Navy. It was here that his love for both teaching and project man- agement was discovered and developed. He began instructing in 1983, has taught thousands people in classroom environments, and publicly spoken to thousands at a time. His education includes two technical degrees; one in computer programming and the other in civil engineering and architectural drafting; he also holds a Bachelor of Science from Southern Illinois University in Workforce Education and Development, and a Master’s Certificate from Villanova University in Applied Project Management.

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Brief Contents

Lesson 1: Project Basics 1

Lesson 2: Establishing Resources 37

Lesson 3: Resource and Task Assignments 59

Lesson 4: Refining Your Project Schedule 76

Lesson 5: Fine-Tuning Tasks 101

Circling Back 1 117

Lesson 6: Fine-Tuning Resources 121

Lesson 7: Project Information: Sorting, Grouping, and Filtering 142

Lesson 8: Project Schedule Formatting Fundamentals 161

Lesson 9: Project Schedule Tracking Fundamentals 182

Lesson 10: Project Reporting 199

Circling Back 2 221

Lesson 11: Advanced Project Schedule Tracking 224

Lesson 12: Integrating Microsoft Project with Other Programs 240

Lesson 13: Project Schedule Optimization 255

Lesson 14: Advanced Project Schedule Formatting 277

Lesson 15: Managing Multiple Projects 294

Lesson 16: Working with Resource Pools 307

Lesson 17: Customizing Microsoft Project 328

Circling Back 3 341

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Contents

UNIT 1

Lesson 1: Project Basics 1

Navigating in Microsoft Project 2013 3 Starting Microsoft Project 2013 and Opening a Template 3

Creating a Project Schedule 11 Opening a New Blank Project Schedule 11 Specifying the Project’s Start Date 12 Saving the Newly Created Project Schedule 13

Defining Project Calendars 14 Defining Project Calendars 14

Entering Tasks and Task Details 16 Entering Tasks 16 Entering Task Durations 18 Switching from Manual to Automatic Scheduling 21 Creating a Milestone 22

Organizing Tasks into Phases 23 Create Summary Tasks 23

Linking Tasks 26 Linking Two Tasks 26 Linking Several Tasks 27 Linking Milestones 28

Documenting Tasks 29 Entering Task Notes 30

Reviewing the Project Schedule’s Duration 31 Checking Project Duration 31

Knowledge Assessment 33 Competency Assessment 34 Proficiency Assessment 35 Mastery Assessment 36

Lesson 2: Establishing Resources 37

Establishing People Resources 38 Establishing Individual People Resources 38 Establishing a Group Resource 40

Establishing Equipment Resources 42 Establishing Equipment Resources 42

Establishing Material Resources 44 Establishing Material Resources 44

Establishing Cost Resources 45 Establishing Cost Resources 45

Establishing Resource Pay Rates 46 Entering Resource Cost Information 46

Adjusting Resource Working Times 49 Establishing Nonworking Times 49 Establishing Specific Work Schedules 50

Adding Resource Notes 53 Attaching a Note to a Resource 53

Knowledge Assessment 54 Competency Assessment 56 Proficiency Assessment 57 Mastery Assessment 58

Lesson 3: Resource and Task Assignments 59

Assigning Work Resources to Tasks 61 Making Individual Resource Assignments 61 Assigning Multiple Resources Simultaneously 62

Adding More Work Resource Assignments to Tasks 64 Adding Work Resources to a Task 64 Using the Actions Tag to Change Project’s Scheduling Behavior 66

Assigning Material Resources to Tasks 69 Assigning Cost Resources to Tasks 70

Assigning a Cost Resource to a Task 70

Knowledge Assessment 71 Competency Assessment 73 Proficiency Assessment 74 Mastery Assessment 74

Lesson 4: Refining Your Project Schedule 75

Applying a Task Calendar to an Individual Task 78 Assigning a Task Calendar to an Individual Task 78

Changing Task Types 80 Task Types and the Effect of the Work Formula 81 Using the Task Information Dialog Box to Change a Task Type 83

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Splitting a Task 84 Splitting a Task 84

Establishing Recurring Tasks 86 Setting Up a Recurring Task 86 Assigning Resources to a Recurring Task 88

Applying Task Constraints 89 Applying a Constraint to a Task 90

Reviewing the Project’s Critical Path 92 Reviewing the Project’s Critical Path 92

Viewing Resource Allocations Over Time 93 Reviewing Resource Allocations 93

Knowledge Assessment 97 Competency Assessment 98 Proficiency Assessment 99 Mastery Assessment 99

Lesson 5: Fine-Tuning Tasks 101

Managing Task Constraints and Relationships 102 Exploring Effects of Constraints and Relationships 102

Setting Deadline Dates 105 Setting Task Deadline Dates 106

Establishing Task Priorities 107 Establish Manually Scheduled Tasks 108

Manually Scheduling Tasks 108

Knowledge Assessment 112 Competency Assessment 113 Proficiency Assessment 114 Mastery Assessment 115

Circling Back 117

UNIT 2

Lesson 6: Fine-Tuning Resources 121

Entering Material Resource Consumption Rates 122

Entering Costs Per Use for Resources 123 Assigning Multiple Pay Rates for a Resource 124 Applying Different Cost Rates to

Assignments 126 Specifying Resource Availability at Different

Times 127 Resolving Resource Over Allocations

Manually 129

Leveling Over Allocated Resources 134 Knowledge Assessment 138 Competency Assessment 139 Proficiency Assessment 139 Mastery Assessment 140

Lesson 7: Project Information: Sorting, Grouping, and Filtering 142

Sorting Data 143 Grouping Data 148 Filtering Data 151

Creating and Applying a Filter 151

Creating a Custom Filter 154 Knowledge Assessment 156 Competency Assessment 158 Proficiency Assessment 158 Mastery Assessment 159

Lesson 8: Project Schedule Formatting Fundamentals 161

Gantt Chart Formatting 163 Modifying the Gantt Chart Using the Bar Styles Dialog Box 163 Modifying the Gantt Chart Using Gantt Chart Styles 165

Modifying Text Appearance In a View 168 Modifying the Appearance of a Single Piece of Text 170

Creating Custom Fields 171 Creating and Editing Tables 173 Creating Custom Views 176 Knowledge Assessment 178 Competency Assessment 179 Proficiency Assessment 180 Mastery Assessment 181

Lesson 9: Project Schedule Tracking Fundamentals 182

Establishing a Project Baseline 183 Tracking a Project as Scheduled 187 Entering the Completion Percentage for a Task 188 Identifying Over Budget Tasks and Resources 190

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Identifying Time and Schedule Problems 193 Knowledge Assessment 196 Competency Assessment 197 Proficiency Assessment 197 Mastery Assessment 198

Lesson 10: Project Reporting 199

Activate and Print a Dashboard Report 201 Customize and Print a Report 203 Reporting Project Status 205 Using Visual Reports 207 Customizing and Printing a View 211 Knowledge Assessment 216 Competency Assessment 218 Proficiency Assessment 219 Mastery Assessment 219

Circling Back 221

UNIT 3

Lesson 11: Advanced Project Schedule Tracking 224

Recording Actual Start, Finish, and Duration Values of Tasks 226

Adjusting Remaining Work of Tasks 228 Evaluating Performance with Earned Value

Analysis 232 Knowledge Assessment 235 Competency Assessment 237 Proficiency Assessment 238 Mastery Assessment 239

Lesson 12: Integrating Microsoft Project with Other Programs 240

Using a GIF Image to Display Project Information 241

Using the Timeline View to Display Project Information 244

Saving Project Information In Other File Formats 247

Knowledge Assessment 250 Competency Assessment 251 Proficiency Assessment 253 Mastery Assessment 254

Lesson 13: Project Schedule Optimization 255

Making Time and Date Adjustments 256 Viewing the Project’s Critical Path 258 Delaying the Start of Assignments 261 Applying Contours to Assignments 263

Applying a Contour to a Resource Assignment 263 Manually Editing a Task Assignment 265

Optimizing the Project Schedule 266 Identifying the Project Finish Date and Total Cost 266 Compressing the Project Schedule 267

Knowledge Assessment 273 Competency Assessment 274 Proficiency Assessment 275 Mastery Assessment 276

Lesson 14: Advanced Project Schedule Formatting 277

Customizing the Calendar View 278 Using Task IDs and WBs Codes 281 Formatting the Network Diagram 287 Knowledge Assessment 290 Competency Assessment 291 Proficiency Assessment 292 Mastery Assessment 293

Lesson 15: Managing Multiple Projects 294

Managing Consolidated Projects 295 Creating Task Relationships Between

Projects 298 Knowledge Assessment 302 Competency Assessment 303 Proficiency Assessment 304 Mastery Assessment 305

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Lesson 16: Working with Resource Pools 307

Developing a Resource Pool 308 Viewing Assignment Details in a Resource Pool 312 Revising Assignments in a Sharer File 314 Updating Resource Information in a Resource

Pool 315 Updating Working Time for All Projects in a

Resource Pool 317 Adding New Project Schedules to a Resource

Pool 319 Revising a Sharer File and Updating a Resource

Pool 321 Knowledge Assessment 323 Competency Assessment 324 Proficiency Assessment 325 Mastery Assessment 326

Lesson 17: Customizing Microsoft Project 328

Defining General Preferences 329 Working with Templates 330 Working with the Organizer 332 Knowledge Assessment 337 Competency Assessment 338 Proficiency Assessment 339 Mastery Assessment 340

Circling Back 341

Glossary 344 Index 347

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1Project Basics LESSON

L E S S O N S K I L L M A T R I X

SKILLS TASKS

Navigating in Microsoft Project 2013 Start Microsoft Project Open a template The ribbon and its dynamic view The Backstage area How Microsoft Project handles project data Default views

Creating a Project Schedule Open a new blank project schedule Specify a start date Save the project schedule

Defi ning Project Calendars Defi ne the project calendar

Entering Tasks and Task Details Enter tasks Enter task durations Switch from Manual to Automatic Scheduling Create a milestone

Organizing Tasks into Phases Create summary tasks

Linking Tasks Link two tasks Link several tasks at once Link the milestone tasks

Documenting Tasks Enter a task note

Reviewing the Project Schedule’s Duration Check the project’s duration

K E Y T E R M S base calendar bottom–up planning calendar deliverable dependency duration elapsed duration Gantt Chart view link milestone note phase predecessor project calendar

project schedule resource calendar ribbon risk sequence successor summary task task task calendar Task ID template top–down planning work breakdown structure

Southridge Video is a video production and editing agency that works primarily with clients in the music industry to produce promotional videos for tours and full-length music videos for television play. Video production managers must identify the production tasks, plan and manage the schedule, and communicate project information to all the members of the production team. Microsoft Project 2013 is the perfect tool for managing a project such as this. In this lesson, you will learn how to navigate in Microsoft Project 2013, how the software handles data, how to create a new project sched- ule, enter tasks, durations, and milestones into the schedule, and organize the tasks in the schedule.

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Microsoft Project’s Start Screen When you fi rst launch Microsoft Project, you will see a screen similar to that shown in Figure 1-1. Your screen may be different if default settings have been changed or if other preferences have been set. Later, you will set the option directing the software to go directly to the Gantt Chart view.

SO F T W A R E OR I E N T A T I O N

Before you begin using Microsoft Project 2013, you will need to become familiar with the user interface, also known as the Ribbon. This is similar to other Offi ce applications in that the commands are in tabs, such as File, Task, Resource, Report, Project, and View. Selecting a tab activates the ribbon. Within each ribbon, commands are organized into groups; each command has its own button, which you activate by clicking with the mouse. Project's user interface makes it easy to fi nd the commands you need more quickly.

Figure 1-1

Microsoft Project 2013 Start screen

Figure 1-2

Gantt Chart view

Ribbon

Command Groups

Table Area Chart Area

Chart Timescale

Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon Tabs Title Bar

Status Bar View Shortcuts Zoom Slider

Timeline

The most widely used view is the Gantt Chart view as shown in Figure 1-2. This view displays various task data as well as a graphical display of how the project is currently scheduled.

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START MICROSOFT PROJECT

GET READY. Before you begin these steps, be sure to turn on or log on to your computer.

1. On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button. The Start screen appears. 2. On the Start menu, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft Offi ce 2013, and then

click Microsoft Project 2013. Microsoft Project opens. 3. Your screen should look similar to Figure 1-1. This is the start screen. From this screen

you can choose to open a blank project, import information from Microsoft Excel or a SharePoint task list, open an existing project fi le, or open a template.

PAUSE . LEAVE Microsoft Project open for the next exercise.

Navigating in Microsoft Project 2013

THE BOTTOM LINE

Microsoft Project is the tool used by project managers to manage project schedules – it is not the process of project management. A project schedule is a model of a real project – what you want to happen or what you think will happen throughout the project. The schedule contains all of the tasks, resources, time frames, and costs that might be associated with such a project. You can modify this schedule (or any other project template) to fi t your specifi c project needs. Later in this lesson you will learn how to create a project schedule from a blank template. A template is a predefi ned fi le that can be blank with the default characteristics set, or it could already contain project task and resource information. Knowing how to navigate in Microsoft Project and how Microsoft Project handles data will increase your effi ciency in locating needed information.