Managing Time-Constrained Projects with Microsoft Project

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Free Online Course: Managing Time-Constrained Projects with Microsoft Project provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 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 Time-Constrained Projects with Microsoft Project is taught by John Riopel and Bonnie Biafore.

Overview
  • Learn how to manage projects with time constraints and fast-track schedules with Microsoft Project.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • Using the exercise files
    1. Checking Your Project Schedule
    • Making tasks automatically scheduled or manually scheduled
    • Checking task links
    • Adding lag or lead between tasks
    • What does the Deadline field do?
    • Tracking deadlines with formatted taskbars
    • Adding buffers to your schedule
    • Managing buffers
    2. Reviewing the Schedule
    • Displaying the critical path and slack
    • Fixing an incomplete critical path
    • Filtering to show the critical path
    • Filtering to show multiple critical paths
    • Setting a baseline
    • Looking for schedule problems
    3. Shortening the Schedule
    • Fast-tracking tasks
    • Adjusting lag time between tasks
    • Understanding crashing
    • Finding the best tasks to crash
    • Adding resources to tasks to shorten duration
    • Using different resources to shorten duration
    • Reducing scope
    • Working with a task calendar
    4. Executing the Schedule
    • Resetting a baseline
    • Entering actuals for a time-constrained project
    Conclusion
    • Next steps