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Lesson 1 SPM Project Life Cycle

The document provides an overview of the course content for Microsoft Project 2013 software project management. It discusses 12 topics that will be covered including the project lifecycle, getting started with Project 2013, creating and modifying tasks, setting estimates, linking tasks, assigning and managing resources, adding external dependencies and deadlines, communicating the plan, updating and re-planning, closing the project, and Project Server 2013.

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Lesson 1 SPM Project Life Cycle

The document provides an overview of the course content for Microsoft Project 2013 software project management. It discusses 12 topics that will be covered including the project lifecycle, getting started with Project 2013, creating and modifying tasks, setting estimates, linking tasks, assigning and managing resources, adding external dependencies and deadlines, communicating the plan, updating and re-planning, closing the project, and Project Server 2013.

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Software Project Management

(SPM)
Using Microsoft Project 2013
Microsoft Project 2013 Course Content

1. Project Life Cycle 7. Assigning & Managing


2. Getting Started with Resources
Project 2013 8. Adding External
3. Getting the Project Dependencies
basics right and Deadlines
4. Creating and Modifying 9. Communicating the Plan
Tasks 10.Updating and Re-planning
5. Setting Estimates 11.Closing the Project
6. Linking the tasks 12. Project Server 2013
Introduction to Course Content
1-Project Lifecycle
• Every project, from the simplest to the most complex,
follows a basic “Project Life Cycle.”
• During different phases of the life cycle, you use
different features of Project 2013 to enable you to run
your project as smoothly and efficiently as possible.
2-Getting Started with Project 2013
3-Getting the Project Basics Right

• Some fundamental settings that you should set before you start building
your plan
• Doing this before you create the tasks will save a lot of heartache later on
4-Creating and Modifying Tasks
• How to create and build a complete "Work Breakdown Structure“
• Representing all of the tasks you need to perform in order to
complete the project
5-Setting Estimates
• Discusses the difference between duration and work and
how to set and enter estimates for each task.
• Providing realistic and defensible estimates for tasks
ensures that you will have a realistic chance of achieving
them
6-Linking the tasks
• Helps you understand how to link tasks together so that you
can set the correct order in which the tasks need to be
completed.
• Once tasks are sequenced together, it's possible to view the
task path and determine how long the whole project will
take.
7-Assigning & Managing Resources
• Project uses three types of Resources
– Work, Material & Cost
• What types of resources you can use in Project, how to create
them, and how to assign them to tasks
8-Adding External Dependencies
and Deadlines
• Apply and review
the consequences
of any items that
can affect your
project but are
outside of your
control.
9-Communicating the Plan
• Is all about
producing great
looking reports
and presentations
right out of
Project.
• Producing a
monthly status
report has never
been so easy.
10-Updating and Re-planning
• How to track the progress of the project?
• When you know what you need to do next
11-Closing the Project
• What to do at the end of the project.
• Is everything complete? What lessons can you learn from
this project?
• Can you use the project as a template to make the next
project better?
12-Project Server 2013
• Product philosophy and architecture • Project implementation (My
of Microsoft Project 2013 Tasks, My Timesheets, Time
• Role concept (managers, project Reporting methods, updating)
managers, resource managers, and • Project and resource
team members) evaluation in Web App (Project
• Project initiation with Project Center, Resource Center,
Professional and Web App (Project Reports)
Start, Enterprise Calendars, • Project closure(project
Enterprise Global, Enterprise archiving)
Templates, EPTs) • Project Sites (documents,
issues, risks)
• Planning options in Project Web
• Multi-project management
App
(master/subprojects,
• Resource planning in Project Server deliverables, cross-project
(Enterprise Resources, Team links)
Builder)
1.1--PROJECT LIFE CYCLE / PHASES
Activity
Level

Initiating Planning Executing

Closing
Monitoring & Control

Project Start Project Close


e
1.1-PROJECT LIFE CYCLE / PHASES

Source: PMBOK 5

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