Friday, September 26, 2008

Microsoft Project 2007 Training

New and Experienced Users:

Get a thorough understanding and practical training in Project 2007 and become a planning professional in your industry. The course modules takes 2 days from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. Please login to www.icpsprojects.com to see more information about the course.

Day 1 module:
Understand Project Screen, Project Set-up, Working with Tasks, Working with Resources and Cost, Identify Resource Overallocation, Resolve Resource Conflicts, and Refine the Schedule

Day 2 module:
Working with Views and Tables, Filter and Group, Tracking Progress, View Progress, Reporting, and Working with Charts: S-Curves Progress status and financial cash flow.

Just drop me a few lines at kent@icpsprojects.com if you need more information.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

New Features in Project 2007

Microsoft Office Project 2007 offers many new features that enhance project planning for new and experienced users alike. Five features stand out as particularly helpful:
multi-level undo, the Task Drivers pane, change highlighting, cost resources, and visual reports..

You can access these new features in the internet by just typing" new features in project 2007".

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Use Total Slack field to report project behind schedule


If you want to know whether how many days your project is behind schedule showing in the Total Slack field, you should:

1. Double-click the last task or the finish milestone to open the Task Information dialog box.
2. In the Advanced tab:enter the finish date in the Deadline field and select as late as possible in the Constraint type field and then click on the OK button.
3. You will notice a down-arrow sign appears in the Bar Chart area.

4. Save it as baseline.

5. Then use it to track the actual progress.

6. The image above shows the result.