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MS Project - Essentials

( Duration: 2 Days )

This MS Project Essentials training course provides detailed exposure to various features and aspects of MS Project that can simplify the job of project managers to handle the complexities of managing single and even multiple projects.

By attending MS Project Essentials workshop, delegates will learn to:

  • Define projects, tasks and resources
  • Plan the utilization of resources
  • Resolve resource over-allocation
  • Work with task and resource constraints
  • Use various views to analyze the project information in different ways
  • Plan and track resources across multiple projects

  • Basic understanding of the principles of project management.

This MS Project Essentials class is meant for project managers and team leaders who are responsible for creating project plans, and managing and monitoring the projects and their status. You should be well-versed with working in Microsoft Windows environment. Familiarity with the basic concepts of project management would be desirable.

COURSE AGENDA

1

Getting Started

  • Understanding project management terminology
  • Different views in Microsoft Project
  • Defining a project
  • Defining general working timings and working days
2

Tasks

  • Summary tasks and sub tasks
  • Milestones and recurring tasks
  • Task constraints
  • Task Relationships
  • Lag times and lead times
3

Resources

  • Creating resources
  • Customized calendars for different resources
  • Defining working time and availability for resources
  • Entering costs for resources
  • Assigning resources to tasks
  • Identifying and correcting resource over-allocations
  • Resource availability graphs
4

Reviewing and Tracking the Project Plan

  • Creating baselines
  • Having multiple baselines for a project or for selected tasks
  • Comparing versions
  • Working with interim plans
  • Tracking the project status
  • Recording actual work for tasks
  • Rescheduling uncompleted work
  • Comparing actual details with the project baseline
  • Checking or controlling progress
  • Updating project progress
5

Views and Reports

  • Using filters
  • Creating custom filters
  • Groupings in custom views
  • Creating reports
  • Creating custom tables
  • Communicating project information
  • Sharing custom views with the Organizer
  • Sharing project information with other applications
  • Using drawing tools
  • Adding hyperlinks to tasks
6

Working with Multiple Projects

  • Master projects and sub projects
  • Working with resource pool
  • Creating relationships between tasks in master projects and sub projects

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