Let's face it, MS Project can be daunting. Regardless of how many courses you've taken, until you sit down with it and put it to use you just don't really learn it. Here's a tip: Plan something fun with it!
Back when I was first becoming a project manager and was trying to wrap my brain around MS Project and just how it worked, I struck upon a fun way to learn it. It was coming up on Thanksgiving and I was preparing the meal for our family celebration. I plugged it all into Project and put in everything from shopping to chopping to roasting and toasting! I was able to learn all about lead and lag time and dependancies and the result was a perfectly timed (and delicious) Thanksgiving dinner.
So don't let these products scare you - find something fun, whether it be a dinner or the family vacation, and use these less threatening projects teach you the tools of the trade.
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