Project 2007

Learn the basics of project management with Project 2007. Print this Word document and tape it to your monitor!

Tap the collective wisdom of other Project users on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, discussion groups, and more.

Create a new project from scratch, or take advantage of previous work by using a template or an existing project.

This video shows you how to insert a new task between two existing tasks in your project.

You can use the project calendar to reflect the general working days and hours of your project, as well as regular nonworking times (such as weekends and evenings) and special days off (such as holidays). You can also control how much a work resource is available to work throughout the life of the project.

Work breakdown structure (WBS) codes identify each task's unique place in the outline structure of your project. WBS codes can be used for reporting schedules and tracking costs.

The Indicators field displays indicators that give different types of information about a task or resources. If you’ve ever been confused by the meaning of an indicator, this guide can help you out!

History gives us the best indicator of future trends. The end of a project is an opportunity to create a history of your project's successes and failures and to share this information with your stakeholders. Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to learn how Project 2007 can help you use your completed project to improve your future projects.

The Project Help team is using Twitter to announce new and updated content, as well as other great resources.

In this article, Carl Chatfield and Timothy Johnson provide a nice refresher on the basics of project management, regardless of what software tools you use. They focus especially on the project triangle model.

After a risk event occurs, you may need to respond to the risk in order to control the impact it may have on the project. Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to learn how Project 2007 can help you respond to risks.

Suppose you need to share your project plan, but there’s a column of information you don’t want to share with all your stakeholders. You don’t want to delete the information, either. It’s easy to hide information in Project 2007 and then bring it back again later. This demo walks you through the process.

The Project Guide provides easy-to-follow instructions to help you set up a new project. This tool is especially useful for new project managers or people who are still coming up-to-speed with Project 2007.

Risk management is the process of identifying, mitigating, and controlling the known risks in order to increase the probability of meeting your project objectives. Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to learn how to use Project 2007 to help manage project risks.

Project 2007 uses a powerful scheduling engine to help align your organization's projects and tasks with available resources. Understanding how Project 2007 schedules work is a key factor in making intelligent planning decisions.

With Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, you can check out a project that you are working on, send it to someone else for review, and then check the file back into Project Server 2007 with changes made by the reviewer. This can be particularly helpful in a situation where the reviewer does not have access to your Project Server.

Assume you discovered a problem with your project's budget. Now what? Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to discover how Project 2007 can help you fix the problem and re-optimize the schedule for cost.

There are four types of calendars in Project 2007: base, project, resource, and task. You can modify these calendars to define the working days and hours for the whole project, for groups of resources, for individual resources, and for tasks.

Download updates to the Help files for Project 2007 and the entire 2007 Microsoft Office system.

Monitoring your project's costs is critical to your project's financial success. Monitoring costs involves reviewing the basic cost information on a repeated basis, as well as performing a more detailed analysis of cost information. This goal, part of the Project Map, shows you how to use Project 2007 to monitor costs.