Objectives - MS Project 2010

* Creating a summary task * Working with subtasks * Establishing task dependencies * Specify lead and lag times

A project task list can be as few as 10 or as many as several hundred tasks. With a large project, it can become difficult to locate a specific task. Using MS Project, you can organize the task list by creating a hierarchical structure. This process of structuring a task list is known as outlining. Outlining is used to organize common tasks into groups within the task list. The groups can represent phases of the project.

In this lab, we will first use outlining to group the tasks of our project into phases. We will create a main summary task to represent the entire project and then several levels of summary tasks below the main summary task to represent the phases of the project.

Creating an Outline

1. Log onto Windows. Open MS Project. 2. Open your project file that you created in Lesson 1, Part A (MyLab1a_XXX.mpp, where XXX are your initials.) 3. Save this file, using Save As, as MyLab1b_XXX.mpp, where XXX are your initials.

Creating a hierarchical outline organizes the project tasks list into groups of tasks. Each group of tasks is preceded by a summary task, which describes the tasks within each group.

The outline of a project generally begins with a main summary task. The main summary task is a brief description of the project and all tasks are subordinate to the main summary task. This main summary task is also helpful in generation of summary reports and cumulative totals in budgeting and resource management.

4. Click in the task namefield for task 1, Inventory current equipment. 5. Right click and select Insert Task. A new blank task row is inserted above and the task list is renumbered. 6. Type in (Student's Name) New System, where you enter