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Old 10-06-2014, 02:46 AM
Halesowenmum Halesowenmum is offline Need some urgent condensed Project knowledge!! Windows 7 32bit Need some urgent condensed Project knowledge!! Office 2010 32bit
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Hello all. This is my first post so apologies for coming in kamikaze style with a rather large and pretty broad question!

I've used Project before (on an estates commissioning role). But to be honest I can't say the organisation really used it as a management tool - we kinda updated it after things happened, it certainly wasn't utilised as a predictor of issues, a progress checker or a way of determine how interdependent tasks might affect other things if there was a slip. And I certainly never got into the realms of using it to calculate the finances of the project. So that's the level I used it at. I know that it can be used as a very comprehensive scheduler – no doubt very much needed on larger more complex projects where you simply can’t keep all the dates in your head.

I have an interview tomorrow for my first ever PM job – I’ve done various support roles up til now gaining experience and my agency has now put me forward for this role. So, overnight, I’ve got to produce a presentation that sets out my project working experience and skills (the easy bit), but also to put in there where and how I would use MS Project (to show how much I know about how to use it) so I guess I need to bridge a bit of a gap between my current experience and what this company wants, and show it to them in the presentation.

I guess I’m throwing this open – for those of you actively using it on projects, what would be the features that you’d say you use the most and that I should include in my presentation??

Any thoughts, help or ideas would be most welcome as I have to put something together tonight to show them my scintillating abilities!!!

Thank you.
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Old 10-06-2014, 06:18 PM
JulieS JulieS is offline Need some urgent condensed Project knowledge!! Windows 7 64bit Need some urgent condensed Project knowledge!! Office 2013
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Sorry for the late reply. Project strengths:
Building a dynamic schedule that can be used not only for planning but baseline and tracking.
Helping to build a resource allocation/management plan.
But, it sounds like you all ready know that - even if your previous usage didn't extend to that level. For many companies, the discipline of project management (and usage of Project) is an evolutionary process.


Do you know for sure if the company is using Project?
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