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Assignment -1 – Read Microsoft project assignment Word Doc and do the assignment Assignment-2- Discussion -Read the Topic and Complete the Discussion ,Also Give 2 discussions which I have mentioned in chat (While chatting with you)
Discussion/Read the discussion.docx
Read the case study “McRoy Aerospace” on page 332 and answer questions 4 and 5 on page 333.
DISCUSSIONS
Discussions will consist of 2 parts: Your initial posting on the subject, and responses to two or more students postings.
Post your primary response by each Wednesday midnight. Respond to at least two (2) other postings by Sunday Midnight.
The primary post should be at least 300 words in length. Your second postings can either answer another student’s question
to your own post or be a comment to his or her original post. Secondary posts must be at least 150 words in length.
•All initial postings must have at least one citation or reference and it must be in APA format. Failure to have a reference or not having it in APA format will deduct 5 points.
•Word counts must be met. Each 10 words short will deduct 1 point from your total discussion score.
•If any part of your postings is copied and pasted you will receive no credit for the assignment, and no resubmission is possible.
MS Project Assignment/Don Funk Music Video 13-4.mpp
MS Project Assignment/Don Funk Music Video 14-2.mpp
MS Project Assignment/Don Funk Music Video 15-1.mpp
MS Project Assignment/Gregory Weber Biography 15-1.mpp
MS Project Assignment/Gregory Weber Biography 16-1.mpp
MS Project Assignment/Microsoft Project Assignment 17.docx
Microsoft Project Assignment 17
Complete Project 13-4: Don Funk Resource Assignment Contour (pg.276 of your workbook). Save your Don Funk Contour project file as YourLastNameYourFirstNameProject13-4 and submit it when done.
Complete Project 14-2: Don Funk Enhanced Network Diagram (pg.291 of your workbook). Save your Don Funk Enhanced Network Diagram project file as YourLastNameYourFirstNameProject14-2 and submit it when done.
Complete Project 15-1: Southridge Video Consolidated Project Schedule (pg.301 of your workbook). Save your Southridge Video Consolidated project file as YourLastNameYourFirstNameProject15-1 and submit it when done.
Complete Project 16-1: Adding a Sharer File to the Southridge Video Resource Pool (pg.324 of your workbook). Save your Southridge Video Resource Pool as YourLastNameYourFirstNameProject16-1A and Gregory Weber Biography project file as YourLastNameYourFirstNameProject16-1B and submit them when done.
MICROSOFT PROJECT ASSIGNMENTS
Each module the student will use Microsoft (MS) Project software to complete an assignment.
The use of MS Project is fundamental to helping students both understand the intricacies of
project planning and management, as well as give them practice in using a common project management software
. The student will be responsible for downloading and installing the software package from now the link available on the course home page.
MS Project Assignment/Southridge Video Resource Pool 16-1.mpp
MS project Tutorial/Project2013_Lesson13.pptx
Project Schedule Optimization
Lesson 13
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Objectives
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Software Orientation
The Calendar Options, located in the Schedule section of the Project Options dialog box, are used to provide basic time values, such as the hours per day or week, fiscal year settings, and the first day of the week.
Keep in mind that the Calendar tab has nothing to do with Microsoft Project’s base, project, resource, or task calendars. The settings on the Calendar tab affect only the time conversions for task durations that you enter into Microsoft Project, not when work can or should be scheduled.
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Software Orientation
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Making Time and Date Adjustments
As part of its project management capabilities, Microsoft Project has a scheduling engine that works with time.
Because time is always part of the “project equation,” it is critical that the project manager understand the array of time and date settings used by Microsoft Project.
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Step by Step: Adjust Fiscal Year Settings within Microsoft Project
GET READY. Before you begin these steps, launch Microsoft Project.
1. OPEN the Don Funk Music Video 13M project schedule.
2. SAVE the file as Don Funk Music Video 13.
3. On the Gantt Chart, drag the divider bar (between the table portion and the graph portion of the Gantt Chart) to the right until the Start and Finish columns are visible.
4. On the ribbon, click the File tab and then select Options. In the Project Options dialog box, select Schedule.
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Step by Step: Adjust Fiscal Year Settings within Microsoft Project
5. In the Calendar Options area, click the Fiscal year starts in: box, select July, and then click OK to close the Options dialog box.
6. [Press the F5 key.] In the ID box, type 60 and click OK. Your screen should look similar to the figure below.
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Another Way: You can restore the calendar year format by returning to the
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Step by Step: Adjust Fiscal Year Settings within Microsoft Project
When you select the starting month of the fiscal year, Microsoft Project reformats the dates on the Gantt Chart timescale to use the fiscal year, not the calendar year. The months of July–December 2016 now show a 2017 year to reflect that the 2017 fiscal year runs from July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017.
7. Click the Undo button twice to restore the dates to the calendar year format.
8. Drag the divider back to the right edge of the Duration column.
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9. SAVE the project schedule.
PAUSE. LEAVE Project open to use in the next exercise.
In this exercise, you changed the timescale view to accommodate a fiscal year–any 12 consecutive month period defined for accounting purposes–rather than a calendar year–a 12 month period from January to December.
Using a fiscal year timescale is most appropriate if there are stakeholders who are accustomed to analyzing information in a fiscal year format. Otherwise, use the calendar year format.
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There are many other options for controlling time in Microsoft Project through the Calendar options of the Project Options dialog box.
You use the Calendar options to define basic time values, such as how many hours a day or a week should equal, or how many days should equal one month.
You can also control other time settings, such as which day is the first day of the week (this varies from country to country).
The Calendar options can be confusing, however, because it has nothing to do with Microsoft Project’s base, project, resource, or task calendars. (You control these calendars through the Change Working time dialog box on the Project tab.)
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Step by Step: Adjust Fiscal Year Settings within Microsoft Project
The Calendar settings affect only the time conversions for task durations that you enter into Microsoft Project, such as how many hours equal one day–not when work can be scheduled.
For example, if your project is planned for 10 hours a day, 5 days per week, set the hours per day to 10 and the hours per week to 50.
The Default Start Time and Default End Time settings on the Calendar tab can also be confusing.
These settings are not related to working time values for calendars. Rather, the Default Start Time and Default End Time settings have a very specific purpose.
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Step by Step: Adjust Fiscal Year Settings within Microsoft Project
These settings supply the default start and end time for task constraints or for actual start and finish dates in which you enter a date but do not include a time.
For example, if you enter a Must Start On constraint value of January 14, 2016, for a task but do not specify a start time, Microsoft Project will use the Default Start Time value that is set on the Calendar tab.
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Viewing the Project’s Critical Path
One of the most important parts of the project schedule is the project’s critical path.
The critical path is the series of tasks that affect the project’s end date.
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Step by Step: View the Project’s Critical Path
USE the project schedule you created in the previous exercise.
1. On the ribbon, click the View tab, then click the Other Views button in the Task views group. From the list, select More Views. The More Views dialog box appears.
2. In the More Views dialog box, select Detail Gantt, and then click Apply.
3. On the ribbon, click the Tables button, then select Entry.
4. Move the divider bar back to cover the Duration column.
5. [Press the F5 key.] In the ID box, type 54, and then click OK. Microsoft Project displays the Scene 4 summary task at the top of your screen; this is a convenient location to view both noncritical and critical tasks.
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Step by Step: View the Project’s Critical Path
6. On the ribbon, click the Format tab. Click the Slippage button. Select any baseline that does not have a date. Microsoft Project removes the slippage lines from in front of the tasks. Your screen should look similar to the figure below.
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Step by Step: View the Project’s Critical Path
In the Detail Gantt view, noncritical tasks appear in blue and critical tasks are in red. In this view, you can also see some tasks that have slack (float). A thin teal line represents the total slack for a given task. Why does the critical path seem to stop in the middle of the project? The answer lies in the total slack.
7. On the ribbon, click the View tab, click the Tables button, and then click Schedule. The Schedule table appears in the Detail Gantt view.
8. Drag the divider bar to the right until all columns in the Schedule table are visible, then auto fit all the columns until you see all information easily.
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Step by Step: View the Project’s Critical Path
9. [Press the F5 key.] In the ID box, type 69 and click OK. Your screen should look similar to the figure below.
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Review the free slack and total slack for each task.
Recall from Lesson 4 that free slack is the amount of time the finish date of a task can be delayed before the start of any successor task is affected.
Total slack is the amount of time the finish date on a task can be delayed before the completion of the project will be delayed.
A task may have total slack, free slack, or both. Slack can be a positive value, negative value or a value of zero.
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Step by Step: View the Project’s Critical Path
10. Drag the divider bar back to the left to show just the Task Name column. Select tasks 54 through 78.
11. On the ribbon, in the Zoom group, click Selected Tasks.
12. On the ribbon, click the File tab and then click Options. Select Advanced, and then scroll to the bottom of the window until you reach the Calculation options for this project: section.
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Step by Step: View the Project’s Critical Path
13. Select the Calculate multiple critical paths check box near the bottom of this dialog box, and then click OK. Microsoft Project reformats the tasks in the remaining scenes and the Production phase to show a clearer picture of the critical path. Your screen should look similar to the figure below.
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Step by Step: View the Project’s Critical Path
14. On the Quick Access Toolbar, click the Undo button. Microsoft Project reverts to the single critical path for the project.
15. On the ribbon, click the View tab if necessary, then click the Tables button, and then click Entry.
16. Drag the vertical divider bar to the right of the Duration column.
17. SAVE the project schedule.
PAUSE. LEAVE Project open to use in the next exercise.
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