CS202: Computer for Business Applications

MS Project Instructions

Date of Submission: 3^rd December 2019

1. Create MS Project and save it as your project name
2. Create a new calendar and save it as your project calendar as follows:
   1. Your calendar has to have a specific working hour according to your project plan.
   2. Weekends has to be Fridays and Saturdays.
   3. Your calendar has to have at least 2 exceptions.
   4. Set weekly meeting (recurring tasks) for your team members and move it to the top of the Gantt Chart.
3. Create a resource sheet for your project as follow:
   1. At least 3 work type resources
   2. At least 2 material type resources
   3. At least 2 cost type resources
4. Enter your phases and tasks in the Gantt Chart as follows:
   1. At least 4 phases, in each phase at least 4 tasks.
   2. Each task has to have: duration, start date and resource (if needed)
   3. At least 9 tasks have predecessors. Add a lead and lag time to some tasks.
   4. Each task has to be indented with its belonging phase.
   5. Set the task mode to all tasks to auto schedule.
5. Set at least 4 tasks to be milestone.
6. Change the type of dependency of one of the tasks according to your project.
7. Assign the resources to the tasks. Show some resources are overallocated. Take the snapshots of the resource sheet, Gantt chart, resource tasks and resource graphs, showing overallocation of resources in red color.
8. Show the critical path in your project before levelling the resources.
9. Take a snapshot of the network diagram before levelling the resources.
10. Level the resources. Take the snapshots of the resource sheet, Gantt chart, resource tasks and resource graphs, showing overallocation of resources in red color.
11. Show the critical path in your project after levelling the resources.
12. Take a snapshot of the network diagram before levelling the resources.
13. Insert a note in every phase of your project describing the tasks has to be done in that
    1. phase
14. Set a baseline. Save the project by giving an appropriate name to the file.
15. Modify the tracking of all the tasks of your project (at least one of them to be 100%). Show some tasks were done on time, some tasks were completed before the time. Some tasks took more time to complete the task.
16. Add to Gantt chart a tracking column and cost column. Cost column has to have values.
17. Switch your view to the Levelling Gantt Chart. Level all of task resources.
18. Take snap shot of the project statistics. Is the project on track? Why or Why not?
19. Create a project report and add the snapshots after answering each question.
20. Show the reports from the Dashboard.

Submission Instructions:

1. A complete MS Project file
2. A Complete MS Word file that explains the plan of your project and what has been done in the MS Project file. A cover page must be included with your name and ID’s. Format it

as Times New Roman, 12 pt

3. Submit both files on Moodle on time. No extensions will be granted.
4. Submission will be by the group leader on behalf of all team members.

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