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Project Management Using Microsoft Project

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1. File -> Info -> Organizer. Access global mpt - delete views - etc. (ADD MORE)






2. Responsibility Assignment Matrix.






3. Appears: min means: minute






4. Appears: mon means: month






5. ______ link Summary Tasks.






6. Appears: day means: day






7. Changing the working time in the 'details' section of the working time dialog won't change the default start time in the options -> scheduling settings. Try to keep these in sync.


8. Create file. Set up file properties. Set a start date. Set up calendars and working time.






9. View -> Timeline check box. Shows timeline - but by default - nothing's on it. To add items - right click and 'add to timeline'.






10. Work - resource - cost.






11. Shows logical relationship between tasks. View tab -> 'split view' section -> details checked -> More views -> Select there.






12. Task calendar - resource calendar - base calendar.






13. An approach for monitoring project progress that relies on the budgeted cost of activities completed to ascribe value






14. Always preserve the number of hours to perform a task. Changing work when fixed will impact duration.






15. Appears: ehr means: Elapsed hour






16. Work divided by available resource units. Formula: D=W/U






17. Hiding does not delete data. If you hide a column - data maintains - but to get it back - you'll need to right click - insert column.


18. 'Start no earlier than' constraint.






19. Matches the outline number initially in Project 2010. It is common for work breakdown structure elements to be numbered sequentially to reveal the hierarchical structure. For example 1.3.2 Rear Wheel identifies this item as a Level 3 WBS element - si






20. Two CRITICAL tasks vying for one resource - who wins?






21. Appears: eday means: Elapsed day






22. Contains information relative to tasks.






23. Single Start - Single Finish. No 'danglers'. Everything must be connected. No loops.






24. Fixed Duration - Fixed Units - or Fixed Work. Described on page 72 of Project 2010 book.






25. Their purpose is to ORGANIZE. Summary tasks have work packages or other summary tasks which comprise the parent summary task. Summary tasks are NOT scheduled. The children tasks are what need to be scheduled.






26. The Precedence Diagram Method is a tool for scheduling activities in a project plan. It is a method of constructing a project schedule network diagram that uses boxes - referred to as nodes - to represent activities and connects them with arrows that






27. To switch between ____________: (Project 2010) - Use the bottom-left icon. Use the ribbon. Task mode column in entry table. File -> options -> schedule.






28. Appears: emon means: Elapsed month






29. Can be added to the ribbon - and it walks user through formatting of the gantt chart. Pretty cool.






30. Task ribbon -> 'task' -> recurring task. An easy way to schedule reccuring meetings.






31. Start date - Current date - finish date - status date - schedule from - calendar - & priority (with project pro). Enterprise custom fields here too - if you're hooked into enterprise.






32. File -> Options -> Quick Access tool bar. Examples: Tables and Vies - good stuff.


33. It is NOT an exhaustive list of work. It is instead a comprehensive classification of project scope. Contains Sub-components - work packages (child of sub-component). Further work packages can be children of other work packages. Summary tasks are the






34. Two critical tasks - both same duration - vying for one resource - who wins?






35. A compact - matrix representation of a system or project. The approach can be used to model complex systems in systems engineering or systems analysis - and in project planning and project management.






36. Project Tab -> Change Working time. Define the actual 'hours' of work - which days work happens (weekends grayed out by default) - and 'exceptions' to standard work times. Work weeks tab present too.






37. Always preserve the number of people working on a task. Changing units when fixed will impact duration.






38. Gantt Chart -> Format -> Bar Styles segment -> format drop down. Adjust all aspects of the bars in the gantt.






39. The acceloration of the successor task. 'Negative lag'






40. File -> Options -> Scheduling --> Drop down for Decimal or Percentage.






41. Appears: wk means: week






42. Add your resources names to critical tasks _______ via bar styles/text.






43. Time delay. Sometimes - it's preferred to have lag shown as a task. You can assign costs to it - that way. Style sheets will indicate this.






44. The number of resources required to get the tasks/assignments completed.






45. Task ribbon -> schedule section -> broken task icon. Reschedule incomplete work - etc.






46. Always preserve the duration of a task. Changing duration when fixed will impact work.






47. Two tasks vying for one resource - who wins?






48. Tasks - resources - assignments - all have dialogs. Example: resource leveling. Project information dialog very important.






49. If '______________' isn't checked - for example - then you won't be able to set a style for critical tasks.






50. efines units.