Microsoft Project Fundamentals
Duration: 3 Days
Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of project management is recommended.
Almost anyone working in or around projects has likely encountered the ubiquitous Microsoft Project. Most people initially learn how to use the product by playing around with it or perhaps getting help from a colleague. However, Microsoft Project’s intuitive interface only gets you so far as a self-taught user. There is a great deal of power and flexibility within Microsoft Project. A professional training class will allow you to tap into that power and flexibility and elevate you quickly to power user status.
Ten Six instructors will take you down the short track to professional scheduling and robust critical path construction with our in-house developed curriculum. The class materials are written by working professional schedulers to guarantee that you learn the most relevant and critical skills you need to create flawless schedules. We differentiate our curriculum by emphasizing the context of functionality and how it applies in the real world of scheduling, rather than simply training users on a long list of features and functions that may or may not be important to a typical project team. For example, rather than just teach how to use the WBS features, we teach you why the WBS in important and give you best practices for developing a WBS, independent of the type of software tool you ultimately use.
See the next section for an outline of the Microsoft Project training class contents.
Training Contents
Project Scheduling
• Overview and Context
• Opening Microsoft Project and Customizing the User Interface
• Starting a New Project
• Working with Durations and the Time Scale
• Outlining a Project
• Linking Tasks
• Adding Lags to Links
• Working with Date Constraints
• Creating and managing Milestones
• Working with Project Tasks
• The Critical Path
• Filters
• Sorting and Grouping
• Customizing Fields
• Other View and Display Options
• Creating Reports
• Adding Graphics and Multimedia Objects to the Gantt Area
• Formatting for Printing
• Exporting Project Images and Data to Other Applications
• The Organizer
Resource Management
• The Resource Sheet
• Assigning Single Resources to Tasks
• Assigning Multiple Resources to Tasks
• Special Tools for Resource Assignment and Cost Estimating
• Managing Resource Workloads
• Resource Leveling
• Working with Calendars
Tracking Progress
• The Baseline
• Tracking Progress with the Percent of Completion Method
• Tracking Actual Hours with the Usage Views
• Earned Value Concepts
• Progress Lines and Updating Tools
• Issues and Problems Arising With Tracking
Multiple Projects
• Resource Pooling
• Consolidating Projects
• Links Among Projects in a Consolidation
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