Ms Project

Microsoft Project or Microsoft Office Project is a Project Management Software program. It is developed and sold by Microsoft. Microsoft Project is designed to assist a Project Manager in Developing a plan Assigning resources to tasks, Tracking progress, Managing budget and Analyzing workloads.

The project map of MSP is as follows

Initiate a Project

The initiation phase of a project plan helps you to prepare or creating a schedule in Microsoft Project.

Activities that occur at this time include:

• Preparing a charter that outlines the scope of your project at a high level.
• Understanding who your stakeholder is.
• Getting familiar with the communication and scheduling tools it will help to manage your project.

Plan Build and Schedule

After a project is approved and initiated, it is time to put it together using scheduling software.

Activities that occur at that time include:

• Adding tasks to schedule.
• Creating relationship between tasks using outlining and task linking.
• Assigning people and other resources to tasks.

Track and Monitor Your Project

Once your project is underway, you need to know what’s happening in order to keep it on track.

Activities that occur at that time include:

• Understand Which views in project help you discover problems in your schedule.
• Take corrective action on problem tasks that are affecting the project end date.
• Communicate problems and possible solutions to your team and stakeholders. 

Close Your Project

All project come to an end, but this doesn’t mean that your work is finished. If you don’t record the successes and challenges of the project, you’re doomed to repeat the problems in the next project.

Activities that occur at this time include:

• Reporting your project successes and challenges to team and stakeholders.
• Archiving your project so that it can be used to help ensure the success of future projects.