INT416:SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT LABORATORY
Course Outcomes: Through this course students should be able to
CO1 :: describe various features of MS-Project tool and create a project plan incorporating
various tasks.
CO2 :: define project resources and resolve over-allocation of resources
CO3 :: demonstrate projects in various views like Gantt chart and network diagram view.
List of Practicals / Experiments:
Getting To Know Microsoft Project
• Starting Microsoft Project
• Using The Toolbars
• Using The Calendar View
• Using The Gantt Chart View
• Using the timeline view for better plans
• Using timescale and gridlines
Defining The Project
• Understanding Project Information
• Understanding The Project Calendar
• Choosing Your Calendar For The Project
• Understanding File Properties
• Creating new calender and setting working and non-working days
• Applying calender on Gantt chart
Tasks
• Entering Tasks
• Entering A Task Duration
• Estimating Durations
• Understanding Milestones And Phases
• Using Recurring Tasks
• Using Recurring Tasks Continued
• Editing Tasks
• Changing Task Priority
• Inserting A Task
• Deleting Tasks
• Moving Tasks
• Arranging tasks using priority
• Manually scheduled tasks
• Automatically scheduled tasks
• Switch task modes
• Simplified planning with inactive tasks
Task Linkages
• Creating A Logical Sequence
• Using The General Tab
• Understanding Task Predecessors
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• Understanding Task Resources
• Understanding Advanced Task Options
• Understanding Task Constraints
• Understanding Task Types
• Using Task Notes
• Outlining A Task
• Understanding Summary Tasks
• Understanding Linkage Types
• Using A Finish To Start Relationship
• Using A Start To Start Relationship
• Using A Finish To Finish Relationship
• Using A Start To Finish Relationship
• Understanding Simple Linkage
• Spotting Linkages On A Gantt Chart
• Understanding Lag And Lead Time
• Understanding Lead Time On The Gantt Chart
• Understanding The Types Of Constraints
• Outline tasks into subtasks and summary tasks
Resources
• Using The Resource Sheet View
• Entering Resources
• Understanding Units
• Understanding Rates
• Understanding Accrue At
• Assigning a Calendar To a Group Of Resources
• Assigning Resources (Continued)
• Assigning A Resource Calendar
• Dynamic scheduling with team planner
• Find resources that have available time
• Group resources who are over allocated
Network Diagram View
• Understanding The Network Diagram View
• Examining A Network Diagram
• Understanding Summary Tasks In Network Design view
• Changing Task Linkage
Use a PERT analysis to estimate task durations
• About the PERT analysis
• Perform a PERT analysis by using the default weights for duration estimates
• Perform a PERT analysis by changing the way Project weights duration estimates
Shortening Your Project
• Setting The Critical Path
• Using The Critical Path View
• Filtering For Critical Tasks Only
• Shortening The Project
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Overallocations
• Using The Resource Usage View
• Using The Resource Management Toolbar
• Using The Resource Allocation View
• Using The Resource Allocation Graph
Resolving Overallocations
• Delaying Tasks Manually
• Leveling Resources
• Leveling Resources Continued
• Using The Leveling Gantt View
• Decreasing Work Time
• Splitting Tasks
• Viewing Slack In A Table View
• Viewing Slack In A Gantt View
• Reassigning Resources
• Increasing Working Hours
• Assigning Overtime To A Task
• Contouring Resources
Managing Costs
• Managing total costs for tasks and resources
• Managing total costs for the entire project
• Managing cost variances for tasks, resources, and assignments
• Managing timephased baseline (budgeted) costs and actual costs
• Calculate overtime costs
• Update costs
Printing Project Reports
• Using Print Preview
• Using The Project Summary Report
Tracking Progress
• Saving a baseline
• Compare actual values to the baseline estimates
• Updating the project schdeule
• Update task and project
• Customizing toolbars and fields
Text Books:
1. MICROSOFT PROJECT 2016 FOR DUMMIES by CYNTHIA SNYDER, WILEY
References:
1. MICROSOFT PROJECT 2019 STEP BY STEP by CINDY LEWIS, CARL CHATFIELD, TIMOTHY
JOHNSON, MICROSOFT PRESS
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