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Managing Actual Values in Microsoft Project

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Overview

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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

Taught by

John Riopel and Bonnie Biafore

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