Monday, June 4, 2012

MS Project (Tutorial)





Task 2 – 5 Marks
Produce a project plan for the way you intend to complete the rest of this assignment. For planning, use the timescale you have been allocated for this assignments i.e. from the date you start to the date you submit your assignment. Submit a copy of your plan to your tutor BEFORE you proceed further with the assignment.


Introduction

·           Briefly explain what you are going to do in this task.

Body

1: Assignment Plan

·           Define and list the main tasks of the assignment that will ensure you accomplish the assignment’s goal.
·           Briefly describe the main tasks that you defined by specifying task duration, activity involved and tools used.
NOTE: For the task duration, the start date should be the date when the assignment task is out. The end date should be the due date to submit the assignment task.

2: Gantt chart

·           Using Microsoft Project, do the following steps:
Ø  Key in the main tasks and activities involved at the ‘Task Name’ column.

Ø  For each task, key in the timescale to complete the task at the ‘Start’ and ‘Finish’ column.
NOTE: For the ‘Duration’ column, do not specify any value on it as the value is generated automatically based on the ‘Start’ and ‘Finish’ column value.

Ø  For any task, specify the reference or tools that you are using to complete the task at the ‘Resources Name’ column.

·           Specify the snapshot of your Gantt chart.

Conclusion

·           Briefly describe what you had done in this task.
·           Briefly describe what had you learn from this task.
PART 2: SAMPLE ANSWER (DO NOT COPY)

Task 2 – 5 Marks
Produce a project plan for the way you intend to complete the rest of this assignment. For planning, use the timescale you have been allocated for this assignment i.e. from the date you start to the date you submit your assignment. Submit a copy of your plan to your tutor BEFORE you proceed further with the assignment.

INTRODUCTION

In this task, I’m going to produce a project plan using Microsoft Project. The project plan consists of information regarding my planning to complete the rest of my assignment. The following is my project plan for my assignment. This is followed by the Gantt chart of my project plan.

PROJECT PLAN

Tasks Name
Task Duration
Activity Involved
Tools Used

Task 1

2 - 9 April 2012

·      Make research on 3 websites that is related with home office furniture.
·      Documentation of Task 1.


·      Internet for searching websites.
·      MS Word for documentation.

Task 2

9 - 16 April 2012

·      Make project plan for all tasks in the assignment.
·      Make Gantt chart for my project plan
·      Documentation of Task 2.


·      Microsoft Project for creating the Gantt chart.
·      MS Word for documentation.



Task 3

16 - 23 April 2012
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Task 4


23 - 30 April 2012
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Task 5


30 April - 7 May 2012
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Task 6


7 - 14 May 2012
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Task 7


14 - 21 May 2012
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Documentation &  Submission

21 – 30 May 2012

·      Compile all documents for Task 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 into one file.
·      Print the documentation.
·      Burn the documentation into a CD.


·      MS Word for compiling documents.
·      Nero for document burning.

GANTT CHART OF MY PROJECT PLAN


Fig. 1: My project plan


                                        

Fig. 2: Gantt chart of my project plan

CONCLUSION

In this task, I have produced project plan on completing this assignment. Through this task, I have gained a clear insight on how to do my assignment throughout the specified time. Consequently, I’m ready to do the other task in my assignment.