Project Management Using Microsoft Project
DURATION
1 day
LOCATION
Exeter or onsite at your premises.
The course will help you become familiar with the Project environment, browsing and navigating project files through a hands-on experience.
You will learn how to use Project and all its basic components including setting up and configuring Gantt charts, configuring assigning and managing resources and costs through to resolving over-allocation and levelling.
This course will help you meet the following objectives:
- Understand Project management concepts
- Configure Gantt charts and use dependencies and constraints, Resources and Costs.
- Create Baselines and Mark up tasks on percentage completion.
- Report production and output as well as basic evaluation of costs for variance, expenditure and budget analysis.
Objectives:
The aim of this course is to provide you with the knowledge required by an end-user of Microsoft Project.
Topics:
Microsoft Project Scheduling
- Auto and Manual Scheduling
- Effort Driven Scheduling
- Duration-Work-Units
- Views-Tables-Filters
- Milestones
- Task Relationships
- Lead & Lag Times
- Setting Tasks to Manual Scheduling
- Setting Projects to Auto Schedule & Effort Driven
Overview of Microsoft Project
- Command Tabs
- Short Cuts
- ScreenTips
- File Architecture
- Organizer
- Changing the Timescale
- Timescale Options
- Non-Working Time Tab
- System Options
- Filters
- Help
- Indicators
- Hyperlinks
Task Information
- Task Information General
- Task Information Predecessors
- Task Information Resources
- Task Information Advanced
- Task Information Notes
Creating a Project
- Creating a Project
- Setting the Environment
- Base Calendars
- Resource Calendars
- Task Calendars
Tracking
- Setting the Baseline
- Tracking
- Updating Tasks
- Updating Actual Work
- Updating a Project
- Clearing the Baseline
Outlining a Project
- Project Summary Task
- Indenting and Out-denting Tasks
Resources
- Entering Resources
- Assigning Resources
- Resource Driven Projects
- Working with Resources
- Resource Sheet
- Resource Information Dialog
- Costs
- Assigning Resources
- Deleting Resources
Over Allocation
- Resource Over Allocation
- Automatic Levelling
- Task Usage View
- Resource Usage View
- Scheduling Issues
Task Constraints
- Setting Soft & Hard Constraints
- Scheduling Conflicts
- Deadline Dates
- Deadline Indicator
- Missed Deadline Alert
Project Timeline
- Project Timeline
Printing Reports
- Overview of Views and Reports
- Printer Settings
- Page Setup
- Copy Picture
Subprojects
- Configuring and Adding Subproject
Resource Pools
- Creating a Resource Pool
- Sharing Resources
- Managing the resource Pool
- Reviewing Workloads
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
Courseware and manual, certificate of achievement, refreshments and lunch are all included in this course.
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