Microsoft Project Training: Online Professional

This session sets the scene by introducing you to Project Online Professional.

It covers:

• An introduction to the interface.
• The pros and cons of using Project Online.
• How is it licensed? What plans are available?
• What is Project Online Professional? How does it fit with Office 365?

In this section, you start using the software properly.

It starts with Project Web App (‘PWA’):

• Uploading and viewing a project using PWA.
• Opening your project to edit it in your browser.
• Walkthrough of the ribbon.
• Editing your project (eg adding tasks and projects to timeline).
• Saving and publishing changes.
• Exporting your data to Excel and / or printing your project.
• Saving a site to use as a template.

This section focuses on working with Resources.

It covers:

• Introduction to resources.
• Adding new resources manually and uploading with Project file.
• Assigning, matching and allocating resources to tasks.
• Viewing assignments, Resource Capacity Planning and also Resource requests.
• Saving and publishing changes, exporting resources to Excel.

This section looks at the Project site which is associated with your project.

It covers:

• Introduction to the Project SharePoint site associated with your project. How to share it.
• Permissions for your site – who can do what? Adding and removing permissions.
• The document library. Where is it? How do you add / remove documents from it?
• Meetings and appointments.

This section covers:

• Setting up timesheets and categories.
• Working with and reporting on timesheets.
• Timesheet managers and adding information to timesheets.

This final section focuses on tracking and managing your projects.

It covers:

• Establishing a baseline.
• Using deliverables, risks and issues.
• Adding actuals and submitting status reports.
• Using PWA reports, the Project Overview dashboard and the Project and Resource overview.