SENG 380 Software Project Management – LAB-1zhengl/seng380/materials/lab1.pdf · The SENG 380 Labs - What are we going to do? • The basic usage of MS project 2003. • Three project

SENG 380 Software Project Management – LAB-1

Lei Zheng Feb. 23th

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• Lei Zheng, • A PhD student in ECE, • Office: ELW A334 or Lab: EOW 348 • [email protected].

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Any feed back is welcomed A public email (if you prefer anonymous): account: [email protected] password: msproject2003

Outline

• Introduction of SENG 380 Labs

• Introduction of Microsoft Office Project 2003

• LAB-1: To complete a project plan design

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The SENG 380 Labs - What are we going to do?

• The basic usage of MS project 2003.

• Three project labs – Feb.23th : A Tutorial & design of a project plan; – Mar. 8th : To allocate resources; – Mar. 26th : To generate a project report.

• Three lab reports – 10% in total

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Some rules for the lab

• For each lab, there’re going to be two parts – PART I: I will give an example about what we need to

do, and then allocate the assignment; – PART II: You’re expected to complete the assignment

independently and feel free to ask me questions.

• To be in the lab on time (a name list to sign) • To hand in reports in time

– Printed lab report; – Usually in one week after the lab

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Outline

• Introduction of SENG 380 Labs

• Introduction of Microsoft Office Project 2003

• LAB-1: To complete a project plan design

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Introduction of Microsoft Office Project 2003 • What is Microsoft Project? • MS Project is a tool to help you to plan projects, manage and update

project information, and communicate the status once the project is under way.

• The system will then display the data in such a way that the relationships of the tasks and their time scales can clearly be seen and potential problem areas identified.

• Project data can be entered and/or viewed in a number of ways.

Task form

Resource form

Form views Task

sheet

Resource sheet

Sheet views Gantt chart

Network Diagram

Resource Graph

Chart views

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• To find the software: – Desktop -> Lab Apps -> Microsoft Office Project

2003; – Or Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Office ->

Microsoft Office Project 2003. • Resource：

– C:/Program Files/seng380/MS-project-templates/Project_Plan

Introduction of Microsoft Office Project 2003

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Working Area

Menus Tool Bar

Task Pane Status Bar 9

Tasks • Basic Profile:

– ID, Name, Duration, Start, Finish, Predecessor • Types of Tasks

– Summary tasks: contain subtasks and their related properties; – Subtasks: are smaller tasks that are a part of a summary task; – Recurring tasks: are tasks that occur at regular intervals; – Milestones: are tasks that are set to zero duration and are like

interim goals in the project. • Task links – relationship on time scale

– Finish to Start – Start to Start (SS) – Finish to Finish (FF)

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The Gantt Chart

• Timescale – Tiers (One/two/three ), Units, Count, Zooming

• Working Time • Gantt Chart Wizard • Others: bar styles, layouts…

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Other Views

• Gantt Chart • Calendar • Network Diagram • Task Usage • Tracking Gantt • …

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Outline

• Introduction of SENG 380 Labs

• Introduction of Microsoft Office Project 2003

• LAB-1: To complete a project plan design

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LAB-1: Project plan design

• An Example (exercise 6.1 ) – How to create a project – How to add and manage tasks – How to use Gantt chart

• More task profiles • Critical path

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Text Book Page144-145 Exercise 6.1

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• Our Assignment-1 – Identifying all possible critical path in exercise 6.1

if activity F (Recruit staff) only takes 8 weeks. – Implementing exercise 6.2 in text book(Page 149)

• Printing Gantt chart; – Identifying the critical path – Showing Task Name, Duration, Finish Date

• Printing network diagram; • Getting the “slack” and “late start” for each task.

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LAB-1: Project plan design

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• Last but Important:

– Due on Mar. 1st 2:30PM – Please hand you reports to Dr. Amany Abdelhalim – Or send electric copy to my email address

[email protected]

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LAB-1: Project plan design

Any feed back is welcomed A public email (if you prefer anonymous): account: [email protected] password: msproject2003