From the course: Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling
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Letting the software do the calculations
From the course: Construction Management: Planning and Scheduling
Letting the software do the calculations
- [Instructor] Now that you understand the input that the software needs to give you a good, usable output, let's see what the software can do. I'm here in Microsoft Project and again, we have other courses here in the online library that will teach you specifically how to use this software tool now that you know the concepts behind construction scheduling, but I want to walk you through a few things here in the software so you can see how it all looks when everything we've discussed is pulled together. You can see here that I'm starting in the Gantt chart view, and it looks like we would expect it to look, but let's look how we got there. I'm going to change views, and you'll see how easy it is to click between all these different views. I'm going to go to what Project calls the task sheet, and what you will hopefully recognize right off the bat as your work breakdown structure. So let's roll these up so it looks a little more familiar, and you'll see we have A, B, C, and D, just…
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Creating a network model5m 29s
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Order activities from the WBS3m 35s
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Establish activity relationships4m 13s
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Assign durations, costs, and resources2m 15s
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Calculate early, late start, and finish times8m 59s
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Identify the critical path2m 11s
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Schedule activity start and finish dates1m 38s
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Letting the software do the calculations10m 34s
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