Exercise1 MS Project for Gantt Chart PDF

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This is the exercise file for the MS Project Assignment1 for Gantt Chart basics....

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Conference Planning Project You are a project coordinator at a large media company in Toronto, Ontario, and you have been assigned the task of planning for five managers of your company to attend and present at an upcoming national convention. You have decided to use MS Project to help you keep track of all the tasks you will need to coordinate. a. Create a new project file called MeetingPlan_YourFirst_Last_Name. b. Set the project's Start date to January 20, 2022 c. Create a custom calendar called ‘Meeting plan’ and enter your availability. Because you have other duties on which you need to continue working, you can only devote 2 hours a day to this project Monday through Friday, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. d. You are on vacation Feb 28-March 4, 2022, so you need to set an exception titled Vacation. e. Assign the Meeting plan calendar to your project. f.

On the status bar, click New Tasks: Manually Scheduled and then select Auto Scheduled.

g. Enter the following tasks, durations, and Predecessors into the Entry table: Durati Tas Predecess Task Name on ors k

1

Discuss possible speaking topics

2

Submit speaking topic to conference planner

3

Confirmatio n of approval for speaking topic

4

Submit conference registration for 5 managers

1 hr

5

Reserve 5 lodging rooms

2 hrs

1 day

1 1 hr

2 2 wks

3

4

6 Book 5 roundtrip

2 hrs

5

flights 6

7

Reserve shuttle to/from conference center

8

Clear and reorganize managers' schedules

9

Follow up with managers on presentation

10

Submit final presentation to conference planner

1 hr

11

Order handouts and flyers

1 wk

12

Mail handouts and flyers to conference organizer

13

Verify shuttle service and check in policies

14

15

Meet with managers to prepare a conference summary Submit manager expense forms for payment

1 hr

7 4 hrs

8 2 hrs

9

10

11 2 hrs

12 1 hr

13 4 hrs

14 4 hrs

h. Enter the note on task 12 ‘Must be sent by February 4th, 2022’.

i.

Change the duration of Task 14 to 3W.

j.

Add the Timeline below the ribbon.

k. Add Task 8 to the Timeline. l.

Add Tasks 10 and 12 to the Timeline as well.

m. To add your name in the right header of the Gantt Chart view. n. Check the spelling of your project tasks o. Save file and exit Project....