Resource Planning with Microsoft Project

Resource Planning with Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project is a project management software product, developed and sold by Microsoft. It is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads. Microsoft Project was the company's third Microsoft Windows-based application, and within a couple of years of its introduction it became the dominant PC-based project management software. It is part of the Microsoft Office family but has never been included in any of the Office suites. It is available currently in two editions, Standard and Professional. Microsoft Project's proprietary file format is .mpp. Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server are the cornerstones of the Microsoft Office enterprise project management (EPM) product.

In this video viewers will learn how to create Work, Cost and Material resources within Microsoft Project. They will learn various methods of assigning resources, the 'Assignment Planning Variables', what 'Effort driven' is, and how to make detailed assignments.