Project 2021 Beginner Tutorial

Project 2021 Beginner Tutorial

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Who it's for: Microsoft Project is professional level software made for project managers, resource managers, team leads, and anyone who is given the task of planning and running a project that is too big for “I’ll just knock it out.”

What it is: Project is a structure-based project planning, running, and tracking software tool. It’s also the most popular project management tool. Microsoft Project students will learn how to plan projects of any scope, small to large.

What you'll learn: Start from the ground level and learn how to build a phase-based work breakdown structure, apply durations, constraints, resources, and track the project while it runs. You’ll learn tricks, tips, and how to modify Microsoft Project to fit your needs and work style.

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Start 0:00
Introduction 0:03
Introduction to Projects and Tasks 2:36
Project Management Concepts 3:50
Navigating Project 5:43
Creating New Project Plans and Setting Start Dates 12:19
Hiding Task 0 and Copying the Standard Built-In Calendar 17:27
Adding Calendar Exceptions 21:18
Assigning Calendars to Project Plans 24:41
Overview of Manually Scheduled and Auto-Scheduled Tasks 25:26
Manually Entering Tasks and Task Durations 27:21
Importing Tasks from Excel 30:37
Changing the Task List to Auto-Schedule 34:17
Adding Project Summary Tasks to Plans 36:38
Adding Other Summary Tasks to Outline the Project Plan 38:27
Adding Milestone Tasks to the Project Plan 40:10
Overview of Task Relationships and Definitions 43:59
Setting Up the First Relationship Between Tasks 47:17
Setting Up Stage 1 Relationships 49:30
Setting Up Stage 2-4 Relationships 53:24
Reviewing Task Schedules Based on Relationships 58:26
Displaying WBS Codes in Project Plan 59:08
Changing Relationship Type and Adding Lag and Lead Time 1:02:03
Adding and Modifying Tasks 1:08:13
Adding Recurring Tasks to Stage 3 1:10:24
Adding Task Notes 1:14:49
Projects and Tasks Recap 1:19:56
Introduction to Resources and Plans 1:23:02
Overview of Resource Types 1:24:05
Reviewing the Columns in Resource Sheet View 1:26:00
Entering Resources and Costs 1:30:03
Creating Resource Calendars 1:36:50
Assigning Resources to Tasks 1:40:02
Exercise - Assigning Resources to Tasks 1:42:45
Assigning Material and Cost Resources to Tasks 1:44:03
Updating Resource Sheet with New Information and Changing Assignments 1:47:14
Manually Resolving Resource Conflicts 1:53:15
Leveling Resources and the Entire Project to Resolve Conflicts 1:57:01
Optimizing Project Plans 2:02:27
Overview of Baseline and Interim Plans 2:06:23
Setting a Baseline 2:08:24
Reviewing the Cons of Printing a Plan 2:11:27
Using the Copy and Copy Pictures Command 2:13:09
Using the Timeline to Share Project Information 2:16:31
Resources and Plans Recap 2:25:11
Conclusion 2:27:30

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[j_j_black]

Lag time is positive - is like a gap between the tasks. and Lead time is negative - next task is overlapping to the previous one.

[suhailmustafa]

Excellent and well organized. Introducing one concept at a time making it easy for beginners and lot of tips for seasoned PMs as well. Great work!!

[venkateshsundaresan]

One of the best tutorial to get an depth knowledge on MS Project!

[zaldyangel]

The over allocation is still there (2:04:20). The info had been pushed to the left where it can not be seen.

[mahsajamshidi]

lag time is represented as "positive" and lead time is represented as "negative", why you said wrong several times?

[christopherbweupe]

Wonderful presentation the core Basic knowledge and skills required have been highlighted.

[hughsutherland]

Great course! Gives me a great baseline to work from in my learning MS Project.

[Live]

What an informative video thank you very much!
highly appreciated.

[ezmat]

Thanks, great course!! Do you know if is there any way to automatically add in the calendar all the non-working days of some specific country and year? For example, Argentina

[delvinnyanga]

how to add tittle that contains tasks below the tittle Training Tollout Initiative like task 1, 2, 3 4? somebody to guide me,

[CRITTERSZONE]

This is amazing, learnt a lot. Keep it up

[celreyes]

Hi, it's a great tutorial. I followed every step and instruction, but I wonder why I was getting the wrong duration....mine is 10 days. Stage 1 is 7 days, stage 2-7days, stage 3-10days, and stage 4 is 5 days.

[reru_other]

Is there by chance a completed version of the project file so we can look back over it without having to make it from scratch?

[maheshshinhsodha]

Your video is amezing but please few zoom video ....

[xuanli]

Have you ever noticed that after leveling the ressources automatically, all the daily call tastks under 3.1 are switched into the same day/two days, simply one hour after one another, which actually makes no sense? I fixed it by seting a lag time for one day after each call. But I don´t really understand this point, why they can be switched together, although they are set to be daily repeated?

[jbabru]

Hello could help.. There is no task board on MS 2021?

[mijuutube]

You passed over how to create stages why?