Tracking Projects in Project 2019 (Online Desktop Client)
Project 2019 (Online Desktop Client)
| Intermediate
- 10 videos | 29m 18s
- Includes Assessment
- Earns a Badge
Project managers need to be able to track projects. In this 10-video course, you will explore the timeline, adding baselines, tracking project progress and critical tasks, adding milestones, using task indicators, rescheduling, and modifying calendars. This course has been recorded in a Project Online Desktop Client environment. Begin by taking a look at the timeline, which offers a clear and concise overview of your project, and then learn how to add a baseline to your project, which allows you to compare the actual progression of the project to what you had originally planned. Next, discover how to track your project's progress; track critical tasks, and analyze and configure critical tasks. Explore how to add a milestone to highlight the objectives of your project; use task indicators to help manage and anticipate potential problems, and reschedule a project. Conclude the course by learning how to change the scheduling settings to make planning as intuitive as possible, and also how to modify your calendars.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
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Use the timelineAdd a baseline to a projectTrack your projects progressTrack critical tasksAnalyze & configure critical tasks
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Add a milestoneUse task indicatorsReschedule a projectChange the scheduling settingsModify your calendars
IN THIS COURSE
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4m 7sThe timeline offers a clear and concise overview of your project. You can also adjust the level of detail that appears in the timeline, including adding and removing task information. See how to change your timeline's display settings. FREE ACCESS
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2m 34sBefore you start your project, it's a good idea to add a baseline. This allows you to compare the actual progression of the project to what you had originally planned. See how to set one or more baselines, how to update your project, and where to display the slippage. FREE ACCESS
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3m 25sUsing Project, you can keep up on how your projects are progressing. See how to edit this information within your chart or table, and look at how to inactivate a task that has been removed from your project for the time being. FREE ACCESS
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3m 11sOnce you've verified the progression of your project, it's easier to identify the most critical tasks. See how to highlight late tasks as well as critical tasks within your chart in Project. FREE ACCESS
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2m 27sCritical tasks are essential steps within your project. See how to analyze your critical tasks so that you can plan your project more precisely. Also see how to change the critical task calculations from your settings menu. FREE ACCESS
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2m 10sIf you'd like to highlight the objectives of your project, you can add milestones. See how to add these milestones in Project and how to change the dates and the duration, if necessary. FREE ACCESS
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3m 16sYour task indicators will help you manage and anticipate potential problems. See how to view and replace existing fields with indicators in Project. FREE ACCESS
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2m 27sWith automatic recalculations in Project, it's easier to reschedule your project or an individual task and to see the effect of these changes on the entire project. See how to change individual dates, manually recalculate your project as needed, or change your status date to monitor your current progress. FREE ACCESS
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2m 28sThe default settings in Project can be modified to make project planning as intuitive as possible for you. For example, you can change the default start date for a project, automatically incorporate scheduling changes, or modify the display options. FREE ACCESS
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3m 12sWith Project you can manage multiple calendars. For example, you can change the working hours in the standard calendar, or you can add company vacation to help you better estimate the dates of your projects. You can also create a new calendar with specific parameters. FREE ACCESS
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