Conference Planning Project

You are a project coordinator at a large media company in Kitchener, Ontario, and you have been assigned the task of planning for five managers of your company to attend and present at an upcoming national convention. You have decided to use MS Project to help you keep track of all the tasks you will need to coordinate.

1. Create a new project file called MeetingPlan_YourFirst_Last_Name.
2. Set the project's Start date to January 31, 2022
3. Create a custom calendar called 'Meeting plan' and enter your availability. Because you have other duties on which you need to continue working, you can only devote 2 hours a day to this project Monday through Friday, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
4. You are on vacation February 28 - March 4, 2022, so you need to set an exception titled Vacation.
5. Assign the Meeting plan calendar to your project.
6. On the status bar, click New Tasks: Manually Scheduled and then select Auto Scheduled.
7. Enter the following tasks, durations, and Predecessors into the Entry table:

Task	Task Name	Duration	Predecessors
1	Discuss possible speaking topics	1 day
2	Submit speaking topic to conference planner	1 hr	1
3	Confirmation of approval for speaking topic	2 wks	2
4	Submit conference registration for 5 managers	1 hr	3
5	Reserve 5 lodging rooms	2 hrs	4
6	Book 5 roundtrip flights	2 hrs	5
7	Reserve shuttle to/from conference center	1 hr	6
8	Clear and reorganize managers' schedules	4 hrs	7
9	Follow up with managers on presentation	2 hrs	8
10	Submit final presentation to conference planner	1 hr	9
11	Order handouts and flyers	1 wk	10
12	Mail handouts and flyers to conference organizer	2 hrs	11
13	Verify shuttle service and check in policies	1 hr	12
14	Meet with managers to prepare a conference summary	4 hrs	13
15	Submit manager expense forms for payment	4 hrs	14

1. Enter the note on task 12 'Must be sent by January 18th, 2022'.
2. Change the duration of Task 14 to 3W.
3. Add the Timeline below the ribbon.
4. Add Task 8 to the Timeline.
5. Add Tasks 10 and 12 to the Timeline as well.
6. To add your name in the right header of the Gantt Chart view.
7. Check the spelling of your project tasks
8. Save file and exit Project.