This is an introductory poerpoint on using Microsoft Project 2003

1. Microsoft Project 2003 By: Percy K. Parakh Academic Computing

11. Project 2003 family Microsoft Office Project 2003 Project 2003 Standard Edition Project 2003 Professional Edition Project 2003 Server Project 2003 Web Access

13. Project management tasks Planning tasks Monitoring and tracking tasks Build the plan Set a project start date Enter task names & duration Link tasks Fine tune the plan Set a baseline Enter actuals Track variance Adjust schedule Communicate with team

15. Click on Start, Microsoft Office, Project 2003

16. Title Bar Standard Toolbar Formatting Toolbar Task Pane Project Plan Window Gantt Chart View 1) Click on Create New Project

17. 2) Click, On my computer 3) Click, New Business

18. Project Guide Toolbar Project Guide pane Gantt Chart View

19. Active View Name Table Chart portion of the view Show/Hide Project Guide

20. From the View Menu, click on Resource Sheet This is the Resource Sheet View The Resource Sheet View displays details about Resources used in the Project

21. Click on View, Task Usage This is the Task Usage View

22. 1) Click on Define business vision 2) Click on Go to selected Task Timescale

23. 1) Click on View, Reports 2) Click on Custom

24. 1) Select Tasks 2) Click on Preview

25. This is the Task Report

27. 1)Click on File, New 2) Click, Blank Project

28. 1) A New project is created 2) The New project task pane is replaced by the Project Guide 3) Click on Set a date to schedule from

29. 1) Click here for Calendar 3) Select a start date, Ex. Oct 3, to Start 2) You may have to click here to go to the next month

30. Click on Done

31. 1) Click on Save 2) Name the Project Wingtip Toys Commercial 1

32. Click on Define general working times

33. Blue-indicates times at which you can schedule a task Yellow-indicates times when you cannot schedule a task 1) Click on save and go to step 2

34. Click on Save and go to Step 3

35. Click here to set Holidays and days off

37. Save and go to Step 5

38. Click on Save and Finish

40. Click on List tasks in the project

41. 1) Click here and enter Task Name Pre-Production 2) Click on here and enter the next Task, and so on Notice that Project assigns an estimated duration of one day to each task ? Denotes an estimated duration

42. 1) Click here and type 5d , enter 2) Notice the duration here

43. Type in 3d, enter and so on

44. Enter the rest of the durations for all the tasks

46. 0d duration milestone

47. Click on Organize tasks into phases

48. 1) Select tasks 2-6 2) Click on indent Summary Task Bar in the Gantt Chart

50. Click on Schedule tasks

51. 1) Select Tasks 2 and 3 2) Click on Finish to start

52. 1) Select Tasks 3,4,5,6 2) Click on finish to start

54. 1) Click on here, press CTRL 2) Click here 3) Click here

55. Here’s the Completed Project !!!