Learn Microsoft Project - Critical Path Management (advanced)
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Description
If you already have a basic plan in Microsoft Project, this advanced course shows you how to turn it into a schedule that forecasts your project reliably and recalculates after a single edit.
What this course covers:
- Building complete, correct network logic for critical path management
- Minimizing date constraints so the schedule stays dynamic
- Keeping completed work in the past and remaining work in the future
- Handling multiple scenarios, including forward and backward scheduling
It suits schedulers who want less manual maintenance and more accurate milestone forecasts.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
Table of Contents
Introduction on automating a schedule, so after only one edit the schedule will update itself:
* Making Links between Tasks
* Lag and Lead
* Guidelines for Linking Tasks
* Link Types
* Constraints and the proper use of Constraints
* Critical Path
* Slack (Total Slack and Free Slack)
* Check on Dangling Tasks (Tasks that have no links yet)
* Critical Path Management
* Dependencies with Other Projects
* Adding a Dependency by Typing the Link Path
* How to see the external link in MSP?
* The Link Between Projects Window
* Dealing with Updates
* Updating Tasks
* Evaluating and Optimizing the Schedule
* What Lessons to Learn from your Progress against Baseline
* Comparing to Baseline to Structurally Improve Business Processes
* Managing against Deadlines
