A project is composed by many activities and each activity includes a beginning and an end. In the same manner, people have different times and different availabilities and all this must be rationally included in a project schedule. Project scheduling helps project managers communicate and deal with team members as well as stakeholders and also helps keeping the project on track. Specifically, a project schedule includes Milestones, Deliverables, Tasks required to complete the results, Dependencies between tasks, Requirements and allocation of resources, Deadlines, time intervals and duration of activities. Without project management software scheduling like Project 2016 and above, you’re forced to manage task and milestone interdependencies separately usually on papers or in Excel worksheets. Every time one date changes, you must manually alter the date of all impacted tasks and milestones. This process is both time consuming and at high risk for manual errors. Team members can access it in order to update their own progress, leave comments on tasks, and monitor what work is coming up next for them. Stakeholders can quickly see how the project is doing without having to ask you for information or relying on an old, stale report. The trainer will carefully show you how to use Project 2016 and above to achieve the objectives set out in this course.
