Microsoft Certified Gold Partner

Project Management Institute / Registered Education Provider


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Managing Projects with Microsoft® Project
Return to Public Classes

How to use Microsoft® Project to create and manage project schedules.

TARGET AUDIENCE DURATION
  • Project managers
  • Project team members
  • Project schedulers
  • Anyone who has used Microsoft® Project Professional and had a hard time getting it to do what they wanted
 2 Days
COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course teaches participants how to use Microsoft® Project to successfully create, track, manage, and modify project schedules and resource pools.  Participants will be introduced to industry best practices, tips and tricks for working with Microsoft® Project.  Our hands-on training is extremely practical and gives participants confidence to work with this very powerful, but often misunderstood and poorly used, project management tool.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES TOOLS & TEMPLATES
  • Create, manage, and update effective project schedules
  • Create and manage resources, resource pools and assignments
  • Learn the do’s and don’ts of working with Microsoft® Project Professional
  • Create useful views for tracking, dashboards, printing, task usage, etc.
  • Formatting tricks for automating critical path tracking
  • Use reporting functions more effectively

 

Course participants receive a course manual and CD with tools and templates for key project management communications, analysis and reporting processes.

Managing Project with Microsoft Project course material
COURSE OUTLINE
Day 1
Effective Use of Microsoft Project
  • MS Project Overview
  • Avoiding the pitfalls of working with MS Project
  • Creating project schedules, segments, milestones
  • Creating task relationships & dependencies
  • Setting task constraints and outlining

Applying Resources and Calendars
  • Creating and utilizing resource pools
  • Applying layers of calendars
  • Utilizing project views
  • Formatting schedule layouts
  • Utilizing project reports
  • Understanding printing


Day 2
Customizing for Better Management Results

  • Using filters, tables, details and groups
  • Creating views, filters, tables, and groups
  • MS Project scheduling methodologies
  • Utilizing effort-driven scheduling
 Managing and Tracking of Projects
  • Utilizing scheduling methods to shorten the critical path of a project
  • Utilizing MS Project Tools and Views to resolve resource conflicts
  • Advanced resource scheduling techniques
  • Managing costs, tracking baselines
  • Tracking completion of actual work between tasks and resources
  • Applying resource contours for forecasting and analyzing resource availability
  • Managing and viewing planned and actual durations, costs and schedules

Working with External Data & Applications
    • Linking data between applications
    • Importing & exporting data
    • Hyperlinking and web pages
    • Utilizing business analysis templates