Tutorial For MS Project
MS Project is feature-rich, but project management techniques are required to drive a project effectively. A lot of project managers get confused between a schedule and a plan. MS Project can help you in creating a Schedule for the project even with the provided constraints. It cannot Plan for you. As a project manager, you should be able to answer the following specific questions as part of the planning process to develop a schedule. MS Project cannot answer these for you. Microsoft Project is a project management software program developed and sold by Microsoft, designed to assist a project manager in developing a schedule, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.
The project creates budgets based on assignment work and resource rates. As resources are assigned to tasks and assignment work estimated, the program calculates the cost, equal to the work times the rate, which rolls up to the task level and then to any summary task and finally to the project level.
a project manager should also be able to answer other project-related questions as well. For example −
- Why did this project need to be run by the organization?
- What’s the best way to communicate project details to the stakeholders?
- What is the risk management plan?
- How the vendors are going to be managed?
- How the project is tracked and monitored?
- How the quality is measured and qualified?
MS Project can help you −
- Visualize your project plan in standard defined formats.
- Schedule tasks and resources consistently and effectively.
- Track information about the work, duration, and resource requirements for your project.
- Generate reports to share in progress meetings.

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