How to Run Successful Projects III: The Silver Bullet (3rd Edition)

The purpose of this appendix is to present the minimum functionality of MS Project 2000 required by a project manager to assist the running of a project. It is based on a course run by ETP and uses MS Project 2000 to plan and schedule an exercise project: the construction of a golf couse.

The notes follow the standard steps required during the planning and execution of a project:

• Creating tasks

• Editing and moving tasks in the plan

• Setting task durations

• Setting dependencies between tasks

• Formatting and presenting the plan

• Assigning resources to tasks

• Saving the baseline

The user of these notes is assumed to have a basic understanding of how to use the MS Windows operating system.