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MS project 2007
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Quick reference guide for Project 2007
Learn the basics of project management with Project 2007. Print this Word document and tape it to your monitor!
Web 2.0 and Project 2007
Tap the collective wisdom of other Project users on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, discussion groups, and more.
Create a new project
Create a new project from scratch, or take advantage of previous work by using a template or an existing project.
Video: Insert a new task
This video shows you how to insert a new task between two existing tasks in your project.
Set working times, vacations, and holidays for your project
You can use the project calendar to reflect the general working days and hours of your project, as well as regular nonworking times (such as weekends and evenings) and special days off (such as holidays). You can also control how much a work resource is available to work throughout the life of the project.
Create WBS codes
Work breakdown structure (WBS) codes identify each task's unique place in the outline structure of your project. WBS codes can be used for reporting schedules and tracking costs.
Indicators fields
The Indicators field displays indicators that give different types of information about a task or resources. If you’ve ever been confused by the meaning of an indicator, this guide can help you out!
Goal: Review final project information
History gives us the best indicator of future trends. The end of a project is an opportunity to create a history of your project's successes and failures and to share this information with your stakeholders. Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to learn how Project 2007 can help you use your completed project to improve your future projects.
Project 2007 content updates on Twitter
The Project Help team is using Twitter to announce new and updated content, as well as other great resources.
A short course in project management
In this article, Carl Chatfield and Timothy Johnson provide a nice refresher on the basics of project management, regardless of what software tools you use. They focus especially on the project triangle model.
Goal: Control project risks
After a risk event occurs, you may need to respond to the risk in order to control the impact it may have on the project. Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to learn how Project 2007 can help you respond to risks.
Demo: Add, hide, and show columns in Project
Suppose you need to share your project plan, but there’s a column of information you don’t want to share with all your stakeholders. You don’t want to delete the information, either. It’s easy to hide information in Project 2007 and then bring it back again later. This demo walks you through the process.
Use the Project Guide to start a new project
The Project Guide provides easy-to-follow instructions to help you set up a new project. This tool is especially useful for new project managers or people who are still coming up-to-speed with Project 2007.
Goal: Identify new risks
Risk management is the process of identifying, mitigating, and controlling the known risks in order to increase the probability of meeting your project objectives. Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to learn how to use Project 2007 to help manage project risks.
How scheduling works in Project
Project 2007 uses a powerful scheduling engine to help align your organization's projects and tasks with available resources. Understanding how Project 2007 schedules work is a key factor in making intelligent planning decisions.
Share work on an enterprise project
With Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, you can check out a project that you are working on, send it to someone else for review, and then check the file back into Project Server 2007 with changes made by the reviewer. This can be particularly helpful in a situation where the reviewer does not have access to your Project Server.
Goal: Adjust costs to keep the project on budget
Assume you discovered a problem with your project's budget. Now what? Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to discover how Project 2007 can help you fix the problem and re-optimize the schedule for cost.
How calendars work in Project 2007
There are four types of calendars in Project 2007: base, project, resource, and task. You can modify these calendars to define the working days and hours for the whole project, for groups of resources, for individual resources, and for tasks.
How your project fits into the big picture
A project is simply a set of activities that occur according to a schedule, and that produce some kind of output. Some projects stand alone, with no relationship to other work going on in an organization. On the other hand, some projects are part of larger efforts, like phases, processes, programs, and portfolios. This article can help you get a handle on these concepts and better understand how your project fits into your organization’s big picture.
Install updates for Microsoft Office 2007 Help
Download updates to the Help files for Project 2007 and the entire 2007 Microsoft Office system.
Watch this: create slack (float) in your schedule
Slack provides some additional space in your project, so that if a task slips, pushing the schedule out, the project finish date is still met. This short demo shows you how to add slack to your project.
Goal: Monitor costs
Monitoring your project's costs is critical to your project's financial success. Monitoring costs involves reviewing the basic cost information on a repeated basis, as well as performing a more detailed analysis of cost information. This goal, part of the Project Map, shows you how to use Project 2007 to monitor costs.
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Ms Project 2003
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Connect with other Project users
Tap the collective wisdom of other Project users on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, discussion groups, and more.
Understanding project management basics (book excerpt)
Review the basics before you begin managing your project. In this book excerpt, Teresa S. Stover leads you through an overview.
Find out if your project is on track using baselines
To track a project, you must have something to track against. The baseline plan contains the original estimates against which you can track your project's actual progress.
Save an interim plan
After you save a baseline plan and begin updating your schedule, you may want to save an interim plan periodically as a snapshot of your progress.
Create a milestone
A milestone is a reference point marking a major event in a project. Adding milestones in Project 2003 is a key skill that will help you as you manage your project.
Show the critical path
To meet a specific finish date, it's important to keep an eye on the critical path. Project 2003 helps you review the critical path in several ways, so you can make sure that changes you make don’t affect the critical path and put the project in jeopardy.
View a project file
This article offers tips for viewing your project information on a computer that doesn't have Project 2003 installed.
Create a new project
Back to basics! Learn how to create a new project file in Project 2003 and begin the process of project management.
Add a task to a project
Back to basics! Learn how to add single and recurring tasks in Project 2003.
Link tasks
Learn how to create dependencies between tasks within a project or across multiple projects.
Insert an entire document into a project plan
Did you know that Project 2003 lets you attach files to your project plan? You can add documents and other supporting information easily by following the instructions in this article.
Add resources to the enterprise resource pool
Learn how to use Project 2003 to add resources to the pool of enterprise resources by adding them directly from a project or by using a wizard.
Demo: Linking Project tasks
This short tutorial shows you how to use task dependencies and lag and lead time in Project 2003 to help you create better project plans.
Goal: Review final project information
History gives us the best indicator of future trends. The end of a project is an opportunity to create a history of your project's successes and failures and to share this information with your stakeholders. Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to learn how Project 2003 can help you use your completed project to improve your future projects.
Import data into Project 2003 from another file format
You can import information into Project 2003 from another product's file format, such as Excel 2003, Access 2003, ODBC-compliant database formats (Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Server), XML, and a comma-separated values or tab-delimited text format.
Dig deeper into scheduling
This training module takes you through some basic features and calculations that work behind the scenes in Project when you develop a project schedule. Learn how to harness them and get the results you require.
Goal: Control project risks
After a risk event occurs, you may need to respond to the risk in order to control the impact it may have on the project. Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to learn how Project 2003 can help you respond to risks.
About using calendars in Project
There are four types of calendars in Project 2003: base, project, resource, and task. You can modify these calendars to define the working days and hours for the whole project, for groups of resources, for individual resources, and for tasks.
Organizing tasks into an outline (book excerpt)
In this book excerpt, Teresa S. Stover walks you through the basics of using Project 2003 to organize your tasks into a structure representing the hierarchy from the broader perspective to the deep and detailed perspective where the real work actually takes place.
Every project plan is a triangle
At every project's core is the trio of time, money, and scope. These are the factors you juggle every day to keep your project plan on track.
Change the color, shape, or pattern of Gantt bars
To call attention to task bars on the Gantt Chart, you can change their color, shape, or pattern to separate them from other bars of a similar type.
Goal: Identify new risks
Risk management is the process of identifying, mitigating, and controlling the known risks in order to increase the probability of meeting your project objectives. Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to learn how to use Project 2003 to help manage project risks.
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