Week 1: Project Management Basics

Unit 4: Create and Plan Projects – Part 1

Create and Plan Projects – Part 1
Project creation

Project Project data

template ▪ ID, name, description
Lorem ipsum ▪ Start/Finish date
▪ Person responsible
Operational
project ▪ Time recording defaults
▪ Organizational assignments for
EXT
accounting purposes
▪ Customer (optional)
Microsoft ▪ Team members / org. unit assignment
Project

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Artifacts used in project management: Gantt chart view

Legend Project Task … w/o float Milestone

… with float
Phase Dependency

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Artifacts used in project management: WBS view and network view

WBS view

Network view

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Scheduling

Scheduling depends on
▪ Project start / finish date
▪ Task duration
▪ Dependency type and lag
▪ Calendar
▪ Task start / finish constraint date / type
Forward scheduling
▪ Actual date

Legend
Time
Backward scheduling Task on
critical path
Dependency

Task duration

Task not on
Start date critical path Finish date
(earliest/latest) (earliest/latest)

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System demo

D E MO

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Create and Plan Projects – Part 1
Summary

▪ Artifacts and views used in project planning

▪ Scheduling

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