Managing Actual Values in Microsoft Project

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Free Online Course: Managing Actual Values in Microsoft Project provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Managing Actual Values in Microsoft Project is taught by John Riopel and Bonnie Biafore.

Overview
  • Follow along with project management experts Bonnie Biafore and John Riopel as they share their tips for recording actual values in Microsoft Project.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • Project scenario
    • What you need to know
    • Using the exercise files
    1. Setting Up a Project for Updating
    • Fields for updating progress
    • Setting Project options for updating
    • Building a custom view for updating duration
    • Building a custom view for updating work
    • Preparing a project for updating
    2. Manually Updating Tasks
    • Updating tasks that run according to schedule
    • Updating completed tasks that didn't run according to schedule
    • Rescheduling tasks
    • Updating duration for incomplete tasks
    • Updating percentage complete for incomplete tasks
    • Updating actual and remaining work for incomplete tasks
    3. Manually Updating Assignments
    • Updating actual and remaining assignment work
    • Updating percentage work complete for assignments
    • Entering actual work by time period
    • Updating cost for cost resources
    4. Importing Updates
    • Pros and cons of importing progress updates
    • Creating a custom view that shows tasks to update
    • Creating task update forms for team members
    • Importing task updates from Excel
    Conclusion
    • Next steps