Project Management:

MS Project Essentials Workshop
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Description:The MS Project Essentials Workshop is a 2-day intensive practical course designed to provide delegates with the ability to use MS Project productively when managing and controlling their projects. The course begins from first principles and proceeds to a point where delegates can construct their own work plans, update the plans as the project proceeds and tailor the application to produce required views and reports.
Audience:This course is suitable for those people who want to understand the basics of project planning using MS Project. The course is aimed at both new and existing team leaders, project leaders and project managers and at all those who have to create and/or understand project plans and reports.
Duration:2 Days
Course Objectives:On completion of this course, delegates will be able to:

- Understand the various menus and views of the MS Project environment.
- Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Link tasks to create a schedule
- Allocate resource to tasks
- Identify when resources are overallocated and consider options to eliminate the overallocations
- Print project plans in different formats
- Create reports and update project progress details
- View and update multiple project
        
Course Outline:
        
MS Project Introduction
Defining, editing and organising tasks
Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
Breaking a task into more detail
Grouping tasks
Viewing levels of detail

Creating a Project Schedule
Estimating effort and duration
Creating and changing task dependencies
Understanding and using the Project Calendar
Creating and using Milestones
Understanding the Critical Path
Applying a calendar to a task

Adding and Assigning Resources
Defining resources and resource calendars
Assigning resources to tasks
Adding Material resources to a project
Working with project costs

Saving the Project
Read and Write protection options
Saving the baseline
Clearing a baseline

Printing Project Data
Formatting views and reports
Sorting and filtering data for reports
Creating your own filters
Creating your own reports

Tracking Progress
The Tracking Table and Gantt Chart
Other useful Tables and Views
Setting the status date
Automatically updating task status
Manually updating task status
Using Progress Lines

Adjusting the schedule
Amending work and duration
Setting task constraints
Using fixed duration tasks
Using multiple resources
Identifying over-allocated resources
Levelling resources
Understanding effort-driven tasks
Working with task calendars
Working with Data in other Applications
Importing and viewing data

- Working with the imported data

- Exporting data

- Copying a Gantt chart to a Word document
      
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