This fundamental 2-day course continues to provide you with the hands-on skills to plan and manage project activities using Microsoft Project.
You will learn and practice Microsoft Project at your own computer. The scheduling techniques are learned through a series of progressive exercises that simulate a real project. At the beginning of each exercise, participants load a new project file that contains all the information correctly entered from the previous exercise. As a result, those with slower typing skills are not left behind. By completion, participants will have fully defined a project from beginning to end, and will have performed project updates and reporting.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Participants will gain practical skills to:
- Effectively define a project, assign resources and costs to activities, set a project baseline, input actual project status, identify resource conflicts, and produce meaningful reports.
- Use advanced features such as individual resource calendars, custom layout definitions, filters, and the use of custom data fields.
- Understand both the positive and negative aspects of the software in order to fully understand the applicability of the software for their needs.
- Discuss real-world issues such as managing multiple projects, sharing of resources, and the efficient use of the software within large and small organizations.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The Microsoft Project Essentials course is appropriate for individuals who are:
- Project Managers, project administrators and team members.
- Using Microsoft Project to plan and manage new projects, and those who require enough knowledge to understand its capabilities and to access previously defined project data.
- Using (or perhaps exploring) the software without the benefit of having been formally trained.
PREREQUISITE
3-day Project Management Essentials (or an equivalent fundamental PM course).
MATERIALS
You will receive a complete book on the use of Microsoft Project, a course binder, and CDs with all the Microsoft Project data files used in the course.
Getting Started with Project
- Views, Reports, Project Properties, Nonworking Days
- Creating a New Project Plan
- Entering Tasks, Durations, Milestones, Phases
- Linking Tasks
- Documenting Tasks
- Checking the Plan’s Duration
- People, Equipment, Material, and Cost Resources
- Entering Resource Pay Rates
- Adjusting Working Time for Individual Resources
- Documenting Resources
- Assigning Work Resources
- The Scheduling Formula
- Assigning Additional Resources
- Assigning Material Resources
- Assigning Cost Resources
- Creating a Custom Gantt Chart
- Formatting Text in a View
- Formatting and Printing Reports
- Saving a Project Baseline
- Tracking a Project as Scheduled
- Entering a Task’s Completion Percentage
- Entering Actual Values for Tasks
- Is the Project on Track?
- Adjusting Task Relationships
- Setting Task Constraints
- Viewing the Project’s Critical Path and Float
- Adjusting Working Time for Individual Tasks
- Entering Deadline Dates, Fixed Costs
- Entering Multiple Pay Rates
- Setting up Resource Availability
- Applying Different Cost Rates to Assignments
- Entering Material Resource Consumption Rates
- Examining Resource Allocations over Time
- Manually Resolving Resource Over-Allocations
- Examining Project Costs
- Updating a Baseline
- Tracking Actual and Remaining Values
- Tracking Time-phased Actual Work
- Rescheduling Incomplete Work
- Identifying Tasks That Have Slipped
- Examining Task Costs
- Examining Resource Costs
- Reporting Project Cost Variance with a Stoplight View
- Troubleshooting Time and Schedule Problems
- Troubleshooting Cost and Resource Problems
- Troubleshooting Scope-of-Work Problems
- Formatting a Gantt Chart View
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