Chapter 1 Project, project management, and you

• Practice files
• Meet the Project program
• Meet the Project family
• See the new features in Project 2019
• New features in earlier versions

• • New in Project 2016
  • New in Project 2013
  • New in Project 2010

• Take a project manager’s perspective
• Let’s get started!

Chapter 2 Take a guided tour

• Practice files
• Explore the Project user interface
• Manage files and set options in the Backstage view
• Work with schedule details in views
• Use reports to check a plan’s status
• Skills review
• Practice tasks
  • Explore the Project user interface
  • Manage files and set options in the Backstage view
  • Work with schedule details in views
  • Use reports to check a plan’s status

Chapter 3 Start a new plan

• Practice files
• Create a new plan and set its start date
• Set nonworking days in the project calendar
• Enter the plan title and other properties
• Skills review
  • Create a new plan and set its start date
  • Set nonworking days in the project calendar
  • Enter the plan title and other properties

Chapter 4 Build a task list

• Practice files
• Create tasks
• Switch task scheduling from manual to automatic
• Enter task durations and estimates
• Enter milestone tasks
• Create summary tasks to outline the plan
• Link tasks to create dependencies
• Check a plan’s duration and finish date
• Document task information
• Skills review

• • Create tasks
  • Switch task scheduling from manual to automatic
  • Enter task durations and estimates
  • Enter milestone tasks
  • Create summary tasks to outline the plan
  • Link tasks to create dependencies
  • Check a plan’s duration and finish date
  • Document task information

Chapter 5 Set up resources

• Practice files
• Set up work resources
• Enter the maximum capacity for work resources
• Enter work resource pay rates
• Adjust working time in a resource calendar
• Set up cost resources
• Document resources by using notes
• Skills review

• • Set up work resources
  • Enter the maximum capacity for work resources
  • Enter work resource pay rates
  • Adjust working time in a resource calendar
  • Set up cost resources
  • Document resources by using notes

Chapter 6 Assign resources to tasks

• Practice files
• Assign work resources to tasks
• Control work when adding or removing resource assignments
• Assign cost resources to tasks
• Check the plan after assigning resources
• Skills review

• • Assign work resources to tasks
  • Control work when adding or removing resource assignments
  • Assign cost resources to tasks
  • Check the plan after assigning resources

Chapter 7 Format and share your plan

• Practice files
• Customize a Gantt chart view
• Add tasks to a Timeline view
• Customize reports
• Copy views and reports
• Print views and reports
• Skills review

• • Customize a Gantt chart view
  • Add tasks to a Timeline view
  • Customize reports
  • Copy views and reports
  • Print views and reports

Chapter 8 Track progress: Basic techniques

• Practice files
• Understand progress tracking
• Save a baseline of your plan
• Track a plan as scheduled
• Enter a task’s completion percentage
• Enter actual values for tasks
• Skills review
  • Save a baseline of your plan
  • Track a plan as scheduled
  • Enter a task’s completion percentage
  • Enter actual values for tasks

Chapter 9 Fine-tune task scheduling

• Practice files
• See task relationships by using Task Path
• Adjust task link relationships
• Control task scheduling by using constraints
• Interrupt work on a task
• Adjust working time for individual tasks
• Control task scheduling by using task types
• See task schedule details by using the Task Inspector
• Skills review

• • See task relationships by using Task Path
  • Adjust task link relationships
  • Control task scheduling by using constraints
  • Interrupt work on a task
  • Adjust working time for individual tasks
  • Control task scheduling by using task types
  • See task schedule details by using the Task Inspector

Chapter 10 Fine-tune task details

• Practice files
• Enter deadline dates
• Enter fixed costs
• Create a recurring task
• View the plan’s critical path
• Schedule summary tasks manually
• Skills review

• • Enter deadline dates
  • Enter fixed costs
  • Create a recurring task
  • View the plan’s critical path
  • Schedule summary tasks manually

Chapter 11 Fine-tune resource and assignment details

• Practice files
• Change resource availability over multiple date ranges
• Work with multiple resource pay rates
• Change resource pay rates over different date ranges
• Delay the start of assignments
• Apply contours to assignments
• Create and assign material resources
• View resource capacity
• Adjust assignments in the Team Planner view (Project Professional only)
• Skills review

• • Change resource availability over multiple date ranges
  • Work with multiple resource pay rates
  • Change resource pay rates over different date ranges
  • Delay the start of assignments
  • Apply contours to assignments
  • Create and assign material resources
  • View resource capacity
  • Adjust assignments in the Team Planner view (Project Professional only)

Chapter 12 Fine-tune the Project plan

• Practice files
• Examine resource allocations over time
• Resolve resource overallocations manually
• Level overallocated resources
• Check the plan’s cost and finish date
• Inactivate tasks (Project Professional only)
• Skills review

• • Examine resource allocations over time
  • Resolve resource overallocations manually
  • Level overallocated resources
  • Check the plan’s cost and finish date
  • Inactivate tasks (Project Professional only)

Chapter 13 Organize plan details

• Practice files
• Sort plan details
• Group plan details
• Filter plan details
• Create new tables
• Create new views
• Skills review

• • Sort plan details
  • Group plan details
  • Filter plan details
  • Create new tables
  • Create new views

Chapter 14 Track progress: Detailed techniques

• Practice files
• Update a baseline
• Track actual and remaining work for tasks and assignments
• Track timephased actual work for tasks and assignments
• Reschedule incomplete work
• Skills review

• • Update a baseline
  • Track actual and remaining work for tasks and assignments
  • Track timephased actual work for tasks and assignments
  • Reschedule incomplete work

Chapter 15 View and report project status

• Practice files
• Examine a plan’s variance
• Identify tasks that have slipped
• Examine task costs
• Examine resource costs
• Skills review

• • Examine a plan’s variance
  • Identify tasks that have slipped
  • Examine task costs
  • Examine resource costs

Chapter 16 Format and print views: In-depth techniques

• Practice files
• Format a Gantt chart view
• Format a Timeline view
• Format a Network Diagram view
• Format a Calendar view
• Print and export views
• Skills review

• • Format a Gantt chart view
  • Format a Timeline view
  • Format a Network Diagram view
  • Format a Calendar view
  • Print and export views

Chapter 17 Format reports: In-depth techniques

• Practice files
• Create a custom report
• Customize charts in a report
• Customize tables in a report
• Skills review

• • Create a custom report
  • Customize charts in a report
  • Customize tables in a report

Chapter 18 Customize project

• Practice files
• Share custom elements between plans
• Record and run macros
• Edit macros
• Customize the ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar
• Skills review
  • Share custom elements between plans
  • Record and run macros
  • Edit macros
  • Customize the ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar

Chapter 19 Share information with other programs

• Practice files
• Copy Project data to and from other programs
• Open files in other formats in Project
• Save to other file formats from Project
• Generate reports with Excel and Visio
• Skills review

• • Copy Project data to and from other programs
  • Open files in other formats in Project
  • Save to other file formats from Project
  • Generate reports with Excel and Visio

Chapter 20 Consolidate projects and resources

• Practice files
• Share a resource pool across multiple plans
• Consolidate plans
• Create dependencies between plans
• Skills review

• • Share a resource pool across multiple plans
  • Consolidate plans
  • Create dependencies between plans

Chapter 21 Use Agile project management with Project

• Practice files
• Navigate the Agile project management template
• Reset the Agile project management template
• Create the product backlog
• Create the Agile team
• Plan a sprint
• Record progress from daily scrum meetings
• Generate reports for sprint reviews
• Sources for more information
• Skills review
  • Navigate the Agile project management template
  • Reset the Agile project management template
  • Create the product backlog
  • Create the Agile team
  • Plan a sprint
  • Record progress from daily scrum meetings
  • Generate reports for sprint reviews

Appendix A A short course in project management

• Understand what Defines a Project
• The project triangle: View projects in terms of time, cost, and scope

• • Time
  • Cost
  • Scope

• Time, cost, and scope: Manage project constraints

• • You have less time
  • You have fewer resources
  • You have more work

• Manage your projects with Project

Appendix B Develop your project management skills

• Join a Project learning community
• Join a project-management learning community

Appendix C Collaborate: Project, SharePoint, and PWA

• Set the Project desktop client to Computer mode

• • Sources for more information

• Share your plan by using SharePoint

• • Sources for more information

• Team collaboration with Project Web App

• • Sources for more information

• Project portfolio management

Sources for more information