What you’ll learn
- Create Gantt charts
- Utilize calendars and timelines in MS Project
- Consolidating multiple projects
- How to work with costs, deadlines, and overcome scheduling issues
- Learn to effectively split projects into sub-projects.
- Importing and exporting of project data
- Interim plans and baselines
- Resource allocation
- Learn critical paths
- Effective use of budgets
- Track PROJECT VARIANCE
- Identify Critical Paths
- Specify task dependencies
- Keep track of resource assignments
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Requirements
- Basic proficiency with Windows user interface
- Some familiarity with MS Office will make things even easier – but not absolutely required
- Basic concepts of project management – Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitor & Control, and Closure of projects.
- Microsoft Project Trial version can be used – if you don’t already have this (search on Microsoft’s Office site, registration required)
Description
A specially designed Microsoft Project Online Course allowing you to join from anywhere.
Microsoft Project is a software product that can be used in project management to assist the organization of the project. The program allows users to use a specific set of tools to understand and monitor project schedules and budgets, present project data, and organize resources and workforce.
This Microsoft Project course will teach you the skills to manage and maintain control of multiple projects more efficiently for your organization. You will learn to use its flexible and intuitive tools and solutions to help create the project plan, track progress, adjust resources and create dynamic reports. Make your project more visible, for others to see the status of a project and boost collaboration.
Why Train With Officeintro?
Its no secret that training is an important investment for any organization. To keep you competitive we provide proactive training. This way your team is educated on the newest version of the application utilizing best practices. With MS Project training by Officeintro, your team is given the tools they need to succeed.
Advantage of Officeintros MS Project Training :
Comprehensive: Integents training is a comprehensive approach to using Microsoft Project. Students realize measurable performance improvement & greater project success.
Achieve Success: Because our training is result-oriented, students are able to apply what they learn in our courses immediately. Hit the ground running with our comprehensive training.
Best-Practice & Tools: Combining in-depth content with classroom discussion & the sharing of unique experiences & knowledge ensures maximum absorption of new concepts & techniques.
MS Project Training, Why it is Important:
Microsoft Project is a complex scheduling tool with many features and functions. In addition, the product is the standard for project scheduling in the project management industry. For example, the software enables project managers to build, manage and track project schedules from the simple, to highly complex.
On the other hand, learning how to use the MS Project scheduling software is not always easy. Fortunately, it does not have to be this way. Once you learn a handful of techniques with MS Project, you will begin to feel more confident using it. Consequently, after continued use, it will become less complex and your confidence will increase.
BENEFITS OF THIS MS PROJECT ARE :
Some of the benefits of this course are:
Benefit 1: Become efficient in managing lists of tasks in Project.
Benefit 2: Fine-tune your project plans with custom project calendars.
Benefit 3: Speed up your scheduling by using task relationships and dependencies.
Benefit 4: Get to understand recurring tasks in MS Project
Benefit 5: Control your schedule by task constraints and task deadlines.
Benefit 6: Use Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to bring sanity to multi-project environment.
Benefit 7: Simplify your scheduling and communication with custom views and tables.
Benefit 8: Become adept at task types (Fixed Duration, Fixed Work, Fixed Units)
Benefit 9: Understand the behavior of the effort-driven scheduling.
Benefit 10: Learn how to understand and profit from the Critical Path Method.
REASONS TO CHOOSE :
Worlds most popular project management software globally utilized
Developed by Microsoft a world-class leader in software
Can be used within any organization, for any Project Management
Use Earned Value Analysis and other advanced features
Amalgamate Microsoft Project skills with other Office programs
Key Features of this Microsoft Project Training:
After-course instructor coaching benefit
Learning Tree end-of-course exam included
After-course computing sandbox included
You will Learn How To:
Leverage Microsoft Project to plan your project
Manage project schedules and resources
Create reports and dashboards to effectively share project data
Track progress and monitor variances between targets and actuals
Microsoft Project Course Outline :
Project Assignment Planning
Understanding Assignments
Assigning Resources to Tasks
Using the Task Entry View
Using the Assign Resources Dialog
Understanding the Duration Equation
Setting the Cost Rate Table
Assigning Material Resources
Assigning Cost Resources
Using Effort Driven Scheduling
Replacing Resources Assigned to Tasks
Understanding Resource Overallocation
Leveling Overallocated Resources
Project Execution
Understanding the Execution Process
Viewing the Critical Path
Working with Project Baselines
Tracking Project Progress
Rescheduling Uncompleted Work
Rescheduling a Task
Setting Tasks to Inactive
Variance Analysis, Plan Revision, and Change Control
Understanding Variance
Analyzing Project Variance
Analyzing Date Variance
Understanding Custom Views
Creating a Combination View
Using the Organizer
Revising a Project Plan
Updating the Project Baseline
Basic Project Reporting
Reporting in Project
Using Enhanced Copy and Paste
Using the Timeline View
Advanced Project Reporting
Understanding the Visual Reports
Customizing an Existing Report
Creating a New Report
Printing a Report
Managing Reports
Using Visual Reports
Project Management Overview
What is a Project?
Understanding the Project Management Process
Microsoft Project Overview
Introducing the Global .mpp File
Understanding the User Interface
Understanding the Ribbon
Navigating in Project
Understanding Gantt Chart Symbols
Inside Project
Understanding Views
Understanding Tables
Understanding Filters
Understanding Groups
Project Definition
Creating a New Project
Defining a New Project
Set Project Options
Project Task Planning
Understanding the Task Planning Process
Understanding Change Highlighting
Using Basic Task Planning Skills
Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Creating Milestones
Using Task Dependencies
Setting Task Constraints and Deadline Dates
Assigning Task Calendars
Understanding Duration-Based and Effort-Based Planning
Using the Task Inspector to Determine Task Drivers Viewing the Task Path for a Task
Creating Recurring Tasks
Planning for Known Fixed Costs
Project Resource Planning
Defining Project Resources
Creating Work Resources
Creating Generic Resources
Creating Material Resources
Creating Cost Resources
Sorting Resources in the Resource Sheet View
Inserting New Resources in the Resource Sheet View
