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Exercise 2 Instructions

The document provides instructions for a project assigning preparation tasks for new courses across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to Conestoga College students to help a professor with allocating time and delegating work. Steps include adding resources to the project, creating and organizing tasks in different programs, assigning tasks to resources, and defining a work breakdown structure for the tasks. The tasks involve preparing student materials, reviewing textbooks and exercises, and checking work across the new courses.

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Exercise 2 Instructions

The document provides instructions for a project assigning preparation tasks for new courses across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to Conestoga College students to help a professor with allocating time and delegating work. Steps include adding resources to the project, creating and organizing tasks in different programs, assigning tasks to resources, and defining a work breakdown structure for the tasks. The tasks involve preparing student materials, reviewing textbooks and exercises, and checking work across the new courses.

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Conestoga College

Today is February 1st, 2023, and you have decided that you are going to need more time
preparing for your classes than originally designated. Preliminary work preparing student
materials is moving along smoothly, but you have run into problems allocating enough time to
review course materials and work with the new textbooks. You want to create a timeline and
delegate some tasks to others that you will not need to do yourself. You have enlisted some of
your better students to help you with the preparation for the new courses you are going to be
teaching. In addition, one of the students will be working through the projects with you to give
you a better idea of what may cause issues with other students.

a. Open the file Exercise2_data. Save the project as Exercise2_LastName_First_Name


b. Using the table below, add yourself and the following students to your Resource Sheet:
Resource Name Type Initials
Kyle Smith Work KS
David Grant Work DG
William Cook Work WC
John Walker Work JW

c. Select Task 2 and insert a new task named Word. Indent Task 3 to make it a subtask of
Task 2.

d. Select Task 4 and insert a new task named Excel. Outdent the new task. Indent Task 5
to make it a subtask of Task 4.

e. Select Task 6 and insert a new task named PowerPoint. Outdent the new task. Indent
Task 7 to make it a subtask of Task 6.

f. Select the Task Name column and Wrap Text.

g. Change the duration of Tasks 3, 5, and 7 to 18hrs.

h. You have decided to break down the book work more and have asked one of your
students to be your helper. Add the following tasks to follow each of Task 3, 5, and 7:
Review end-of-chapter exercises 1 hr
Check all work 1 hr

i. Assign the following tasks as specified:


Kyle Smith: Task 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, and 13. Ignore the overallocation.
David Grant: Tasks 21 and 22
William Cook: Tasks 14, 15 and 16
John Walker: Tasks 18 and 19
Assign any remaining tasks to yourself plus Tasks 3, 7, and 11. If given the informational
warning symbol, select Increase the amount of work but keep the same duration. Ignore
the overallocation.

j. Right-click the Task Name column and Insert Column. Select WBS. Adjust the column
width as necessary.

k. Define the WBS Code with Level 1) Numbers; Level 2) Uppercase Letters; Level, 3)
Lowercase Letters.

l. Copy the entire table and paste it into a blank Excel worksheet. Adjust columns as
necessary. Save the file as Exercise2_Excel_LastName_First_Name

m. Open a blank Word document and paste the table into a Word document. Save the file
as Exercise2_Word_LastName_FirstName

n. Save your project file and upload all files, including Zoom Recording to eConestoga.

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