PM TENTATIVE COURSE PLAN
Week Parts Exercises Term Project Q and A
PART 1: 10 MARKS 10 MARKS 20 MARKS
1-2 CH 1: THE HISTORY OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT Group Formation, (min 2, (Microsoft Project)
CH 2: INITIATING THE PROJECT -&-max-3") Exercise Sheet
Excel Sheet (CR) completion
2 AE 1: Gantt Chart
3 CH 3: PROJECT SELECTION Quiz I
4 CH 4: ESTIMATING PROJECT TIMES AND COST Progress 1 Application
ON YOUR LAPTOP Exercises
Assignment I
PART 2:
5-6 CH 5: PROJECT SCHEDULE AE 2: WBS Assignment 2
7-8 CH 6: MANAGING RISK Quiz 2
9 MIDTERM 20
10-11 CH 7: REDUCING PROJECT DURATION
PART 3:
12-13 CH 8: MANAGING PROJECT TEAMS Progress 2
ON YOUR LAPTOP
PART4:
14 CH 9: PROJECT CLOSURE AE 3: Project risk Quiz3
assessment flowchart Assignment 3
PART 5:
15 TED TALK AND PM DOCUMENTRY AE4: Project Budget Quiz4
allocation sheet. Assignment4
16 OVER ALL PROJECT FLOW CHART Progress 3
ON YOUR LAPTOP
FINAL EXAM (40 MARKS)
MS Project Basic Exercise
1) Start a new project
2) Go into options to modify the days/hours worked - easier beforehand than
after you start
3) You'll be in the Gantt View - left side will be your quick table and right side
will be your actual Gantt Chart
4) First column - Name your Project "My Project"
5) Then add all your tasks
a. Phase 1- Initiation/Concept
i. Plan
ii. Project Proposal
iii. Project Approval
b. Phase 2 - Origination
i. Design
c. Phase 3 - Implementation/Execution
i. Development/Build
ii. Integration
iii. Validation Testing
d. Phase 4 - Deliver the Service/Project
e. Closing - Summary of your project
6) Highlight all areas below your project name
a. Indent Right (makes them subtasks)
7) Do this to all the other summary tasks
a. Phase 1, Phase 2, etc...
8) Add Time/Duration for each task - skip the summary tasks (or just make them
O)
9) Organize the tasks - are they sequential? Concurrent
a. Use the link icon to link them together
b. You'll have a "diamond" to indicate a milestone
10) You may have predecessors you need to handle (this before that and so on...)
a. Use the task numbers and add them to the predecessor and it will
automatically calculate
11) Task Mode
a. Manual or Automatic (I would set to calculate automatically)
b. Notice the color changes in the Gantt Chart
c. Look at the completed project schedule (bottom right hand to zoom)
12) Change the start date
a. Project>Move Project - insert the new date
b. Notice how all moves
13) Now add people/resources
a. Go to Gantt Chart in upper left-hand corner and change view
i. Resource Sheet
ii. Define People and other Resources
1. PM1
2. Tech1
3. ENG1
4. ENG2
5. TESTUSER1
iii. Add in hourly rates if tracking cost
14) Gantt View
a. Go to the column and view resources
b. See drop down menu - choose your resources
15) Add column next to resources for "Cost"
16) Reports>dashboards - Cost Overview and Work Overview
17) Take a Baseline/Reference
a. Project>Set Baseline
b. Show the 1st Baseline - gray bars reference for the project
18) Tracking the project as you work through it
a. Add amount complete (50%, etc.)
i. Right click on task to add different dominations
19) Tracking Gantt- critical path is shown
a. May need to go in and change the duration and add comments to
your task if it is causing slippage
