Setting Up Equipment Resources

This includes:

1-What are Equipment Resources

2-How to enter Equipment Resource Names

Equipment Resources are work based resources like people resources. E.g. for a task like excavation - excavator, backhoe etc. are the equipments. They are usually rented on per hour/ day / week basis. These can also have a cost per use. These are not added as Material resources because these are not consumed in the project process

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Setting Up People Resources

in Microsoft Project 2010

This includes:

1-Different Types of Resources
2-How to enter People Resource Names
3-About Initials and Grouping

MS Project defines three basic types of resources.
Work Resources – include people and equipment. For these, work is calculated in terms of time based units like, hrs, days, weeks, etc.
Material Resources – include materials. These get consumed in the progress of the project.
Cost Resources – These neither have an associated work nor get consumed. E.g., travelling costs, training costs, etc.

Checking the Plan’s Duration

This includes:
1-Checking start and finish dates
2- Autoscheduling
3-Checking Task Links
4-Checking Overall project Plan

For checking and scheduling the Project Plan, we can take the following systematic steps:

Documenting Tasks

This includes:

1-How to get the notes column

2-How to enter notes for a task

For documenting information related to a task, information can be added in the Notes for a particular task. All tasks with notes are shown marked with an icon on the indicator column. These notes can be formatted and printed also.

Linking Tasks
 

This includes:
1-Relationship between tasks
2-Setting Links

Tasks are linked to each other by any of the following four relationships.
Finish to Start – means for two tasks A and B, B can start only after A finishes. Eg. Walls can be built only after foundations are over.
Start to Start – means B can start only after A has started. E.g. if task A refers to a friend getting paint and Task B refers to you painting the wall, then you can start painting the wall, once the activity of getting paints has started.

Organizing Tasks into Phases

in MS Project 2010

This video includes:

1-Add Phases to Tasks

2-Add Tasks to Phases

3-Outline View

Projects can be planned from top to down or from down to top. In the top- down approach, the major phases are entered first and sub- tasks inside the phases are then entered. In the other way, the detailed tasks are first listed out and then can be grouped into phases or summary tasks. A number of outline view options are available which allow viewing of tasks and phases at different levels.

Entering a milestone

This includes:

1-What is a milestone
2-Automatically marked milestones
3-Marking a new milestone

A milestone is a reference point based on which project progress can be monitored. MS Project defines milestones as tasks with zero duration. When we enter any task with zero duration, it automatically gets marked as a milestone. We can also manually mark the milestones. All milestones are denoted with a symbol in the chart view.

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