Tracking Projects in Project 2019 (Online Desktop Client)

Project 2019 (Online Desktop Client)    |    Intermediate
  • 10 videos | 29m 18s
  • Includes Assessment
  • Earns a Badge
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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

  • Use the timeline
    Add a baseline to a project
    Track your projects progress
    Track critical tasks
    Analyze & configure critical tasks
  • Add a milestone
    Use task indicators
    Reschedule a project
    Change the scheduling settings
    Modify your calendars

IN THIS COURSE

  • 4m 7s
    The 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
  • 2m 34s
    Before 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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    3.  Tracking your project progress in Project 2019 (Online Desktop Client)
    3m 25s
    Using 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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    4.  Tracking critical tasks in Project 2019 (Online Desktop Client)
    3m 11s
    Once 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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    5.  Analyzing & configuring critical tasks in Project 2019 (Online Desktop Client)
    2m 27s
    Critical 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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    6.  Adding a milestone in Project 2019 (Online Desktop Client)
    2m 10s
    If 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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    7.  Using the task indicators in Project 2019 (Online Desktop Client)
    3m 16s
    Your 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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    8.  Rescheduling your project in Project 2019 (Online Desktop Client)
    2m 27s
    With 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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    9.  Changing your scheduling settings in Project 2019 (Online Desktop Client)
    2m 28s
    The 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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    10.  Modifying your calendars in Project 2019 (Online Desktop Client)
    3m 12s
    With 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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