MASTERING MICROSOFT PROJECT

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COURSE OVERVIEW

Learn how to unleash the powers of MS project. This course aims to provide hands-on training on the use of MS Project and discovering its features. Also, participants will create project plans and calendars, customize charts, views and tables. Moreover, participants will practice resource allocation, resource leveling, tracking progress and consolidating project plans. Finally, earned value computations will be explored where participants will learn how to control their project variances by use of built-in key performance indicators.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By completely attending this course, participants will be able to:

Manage project constraints using MS Project
Create project ﬁles and customize calendars
Establish dependencies and schedule tasks
Assign resources to project tasks
Format network diagrams and critical path
Track progress and update baselines
Organize and format views and charts
Consolidate project plans into a master plan

NOTES

This course includes:

Hands-on training using MS Project.
“Microsoft Project: Step By Step” Book will be distributed at the course.
Use of laptop with MS Project 2016/2019 or higher version installed
Receive 30 PDUs approved by PMI

TARGET COMPETENCIES

Project planning
Task scheduling
Data organizing
Project execution
Controlling performance
Designing reports

This course is designed to suit aspiring professionals Interested in using MS Project to manage their projects. This includes:

Project Managers
Project Coordinators
Project Portfolio Managers
Team Leaders
Business Analysts
Executives and Senior Managers
Project Team Members
Consultants
Planners and Schedulers
Construction Managers
Engineering Managers
IT Project Managers

A variety of methodologies will be used, including: brief presentations, discussions, individual and group exercises and hands-on training using MS Project.

INTRODUCTION ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Deﬁnition of project
Deﬁnition of project management
Managing project constraints
Process groups and knowledge areas
Project life-cycle

STARTING A NEW PLAN

Project interface screen
Creating project ﬁles
Setting project calendars
Building a task list
Manual and automatic scheduling

SCHEDULING TASKS

Creating tasks dependencies
Applying task path feature
Entering lead and lag times
Setting task constraints
Applying task calendars

ASSIGNING RESOURCES TO TASKS

Adding resources
Applying resource calendar
Checking resource availability
Assigning resources to tasks

VIEWING NETWORK DIAGRAM AND CRITICAL PATH

Formatting network diagrams
Analyzing critical path
Viewing total and free slacks
Allocating resources
Resolving over-allocated resources

TRACKING PROGRESS

Saving project baseline
Tracking a project as scheduled through a speciﬁc date
Entering task completion percentage
Entering actual values for tasks
Updating baseline

ORGANIZING & FORMATTING PROJECT DETAILS

Customizing tables, views and Gantt charts
- Sorting project details
- Grouping project details
- Filtering project details
Customizing and printing reports
- Formatting task cells
- Customizing timeline view
- Customize reports
Viewing and reporting project status
- Identifying slipped tasks
- Spotlight views
- Troubleshooting schedule problems

CONSOLIDATING PROJECTS AND RESOURCES

Creating resource pool and sharer plans
Updating assignments in sharer plan
Linking projects to resource pool
Changing sharer plans assignments
Consolidating project plans
Viewing dependencies between projects
Earned value calculations