MCS: Project Questionnaire

Do you want to know if you are maximizing the potential of Microsoft Project? Take this questionnaire and find out how much you know or didn't know about Microsoft Project. You can also choose for MCS, Inc. to contact you for training. We will specialize the training to meet your company's scheduling needs.

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Who all uses Microsoft Project or another scheduling program in your company now?

Who does your company scheduling?

When do you use scheduling?

Do you do updates and react to baseline variances?

Do you attach the sub's schedule to its subcontracts?

Do you provide cash flow projections to accounting personnel or other agencies?

Did you know MS Project would do cash flow projections?

How much do you know about attaching Word, Excel, PDF, Photos, etc to tasks?

What does the term "critical path" mean to you?

How much do you know about setting hyperlinks?

How much do you know about filtering for specific data?

How much do you know about setting date ranges in order to control the size of print outs?

How much do you know about merging several jobs into a master job?

How much do you know about the compatibility of MS Project with Outlook?

How much do you know about importing/exporting information into or out of Word and Excel?

Do you understand that if you schedule in time (# of days to complete a task) that you must report that actual durations in time, not % of work complete?

Why would you schedule a job in calendar days?

Why would you schedule a job for 5 day per week only?

How do you currently "schedule" your work?

Scheduling is not limited to construction projects, it works for development, permitting, engineering, etc.

How much do you know about tracking the actual progress of your projects?

How much do you know about the use of TEMPLATES?

How much do you know about formatting for presentation purposes?

How much do you know about printing?

How much do you know about indenting and outdenting?

How much do you know about grouping?

How much do you know about the float computed by Project?

How much do you know about splitting a task?

Do you understand why you would split a task?

Do you understand why linking is so important?

How much do you know about scheduling in years, months, weeks, days, hours and minutes?

Did you know the default setting in MS Project is to use resources?

Did you know the default setting in MS Project is to automatically link an inserted task?

How much do you know about lead and lag time?

How much do you know about SF, FF, FS, SS dependencies?

Do you understand the differences between SF, FF, FS, SS?

How much do you know about customizing the tool bars?

Did you know you can "snap photo" the monitor and email the picture?

Do you use the "go to selected" task icon feature?

How much do you know about subdividing a bar into 4 rows?

How much do you know about sorting by start date or finish date?

How much do you know about increasing the height of a single line?

How much do you know about wrapping text?

How much do you know about the view bar and its function?

How much do you know about headers and footers?

How much do you know about inserting recurring tasks?

How much do you know about creating a drawing on the schedule?

How much do you know about linking projects?

How much do you know about setting multiple baselines?

How much do you know about setting different calendars for selected different tasks and resources?

How much do you know about "notes"?

How much do you know about comparing two projects and preparing a report on the differences?

Copyright © 2006 Mabry Consulting Services, Inc. All rights reserved. Revised: 03/12/07

Copyright © 2006 Mabry Consulting Services, Inc. All rights reserved.
Revised: 03/12/07