Microsoft Project Fundamentals

Lesson 2 Introducing Microsoft Project

LESSON OBJECTIVES

• Describe three of the five major ways that Microsoft Project helps you manage projects.
• List three of several Microsoft Project editions you can choose from as your project management solution.
• Explain the pros and cons of two different Microsoft Project editions.
• Select the Microsoft Project edition that is best suited to your projects, team, and organization.
• Navigate the Microsoft Project window.
• Name three sources for getting help with your Microsoft Project edition.

Although it doesn't manage your projects for you, Microsoft Project is your quick and clever assistant in estimating schedules, calculating costs, balancing resources, displaying progress, and testing what-if scenarios.

Microsoft offers several editions of Project, from basic to full-featured, and from traditional desktop to online cloud-based applications. In this lesson, you'll discern which of these flavors is best for you and your team.

To begin, you'll start up Microsoft Project and tour the windows, views, and modes where different features reside.

For this book, the procedures and examples are based on Microsoft Project Online Desktop Client as implemented in October 2021 as the Microsoft “Project Plan 3” for cloud-based project management solutions. This is largely the same as Microsoft Project Professional 2021, the perpetual (nonsubscription) version. You can learn about changes since then with help and tips located within the app, ...