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| Name | Project 2007 |
| Date | 07/09/12 |
The worlds leading project management program:
- Now, easier than ever to manage schedules and resources, communicate project status, and report project information.
- Better organize and manage work and people to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget.
- Convey your project plans and status effectively and succinctly.
- Enhance your productivity and effectiveness by learning and applying project management.
Overview: In this course students learn how to create project schedules, work with various project views, create and outline tasks, assign task relationships, apply constraints, calendars, and deadline dates, create and assign resources, and assign and track project costs.
Students learn how to evaluate and adjust project time factors, resources, and costs. Students also learn how to track project progress; use custom tables, filters, and forms; customize views, reports, and printed views; share information with other users; and work with consolidated projects. This course also includes an appendix that presents the functions and features of Project Central.
Student requests prompted us to design a 3rd day of Microsoft Project training! You asked and we listened! You will plan a project from the outset. Review the most common mistakes made when creating and editing calendars, changing task relationships, and examining the calculation that project performs when you assign resources. You will experiment with changing the four task types and analyzing how this change effects the duration, work, or units in your project. Resources, cost rate tables, and availability will be evaluated. Learn what shortcut we will use to identify the critical path and non-critical path tasks, format the Gantt Chart to your specifications and identify over-allocation of assigned resources?
Resolving over-allocation and identifying slack will help simplify the data we enter. The no-fail method of evaluating and adjusting costs, resource allocations and the critical path will help you plan projects more easily. You will learn to baseline your project to begin tracking actuals, and save valuable time by analyzing performance of you plan and reschedule tasks. Increase the essential skills to be able to customize tables, filters, views and reports. Fundamentals of shared resources pools, master projects and sub-projects will be reviewed. You can bring a project you are working on (no proprietary information) and together as a class, we will analyze your data.
Course Duration: 3 days training (9am - 5pm)
Prerequisites: Knowledge of how to use the Microsoft Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint or Access)
Course Outline
Getting Started with Project
Managing
your Projects with Project
Starting
Project Standard
Starting
Project Professional
Exploring
Views
Exploring
Reports
Creating
a New Project Plan
Setting
Nonworking Days
Entering
Project Properties
Creating a Task List
Entering Tasks
Estimating Durations
Entering a Milestone
Organizing Tasks into Phases
Linking Tasks
Documenting Tasks
Checking the Plan’s Duration
Setting up Resources
Setting Up People Resources
Setting Up Equipment Resources
Setting Up Material Resources
Setting Up Cost Resources
Entering Resource Pay Rates
Adjusting Working Time for
Individual Resources
Documenting Resources
Assigning Resources to Tasks
Assigning Work Resources to Tasks
Assigning Additional Resources to
a Task
Assigning Material Resources to
Tasks
Assigning Cost Resources to Tasks
Formatting and Printing Your Plan
Creating a Custom Gantt Chart
View
Drawing on a Gantt Chart
Formatting Text in a View
Formatting and Printing Reports
Tracking
Progress on Tasks
Saving a Project Baseline
Tracking a Project as Scheduled
Entering a Task’s Completion
Percentage
Entering Actual Values for Tasks
Fine-Tuning Task Details
Adjusting Task Relationships
Setting Task Constraints
Viewing the Project’s Critical
Path
Interrupting Work on a Task
Adjusting Working Time for
Individual Tasks
Changing Task Types
Entering Deadline Dates
Entering Fixed Costs
Setting Up a Recurring Task
Fine-Tuning Resource and Assignment
Details
Entering Multiple Pay Rates for a
Resource
Setting Up Pay Rates to Apply at
Different Times
Setting Up Resource Availability
to Apply at Different Times
Delaying the Start of Assignments
Applying Contours to Assignments
Applying Different Cost Rates to
Assignments
Entering Material Resource
Consumption Rates
Fine-Tuning
the Project Plan
Examining Resource Allocations
over Time
Manually Resolving Resource
Overallocations
Leveling Overallocated Resources
Examining Project Costs
Checking the Project’s Finish
Date
Organizing and Formatting Project
Details
Sorting Project Details
Grouping Project Details
Filtering Project Details
Customizing Tables
Customizing Views
Printing
Project Information
Printing Your Project Plan
Printing Views
Printing Reports
Sharing Project Information with Other
Programs
Copying and Pasting with Project
Opening Other File Formats in
Project
Saving to Other File Formats from
Project
Generating a Project Summary
Report for Word, PowerPoint, or Visio
Generating Visual Reports with
Excel and Visio
Tracking
Progress on Tasks and Assignments
Updating a Baseline
Tracking Actual and Remaining
Values for Tasks and Assignments
Tracking Time-phased Actual Work
for Tasks and Assignments
Rescheduling Incomplete Work
Viewing
and Reporting Project Status
Identifying Tasks That have
Slipped
Examining Task Costs
Examining Resource Costs
Reporting Project Cost Variance
with a Stoplight View
Getting Your Project Back on Track
Troubleshooting Time and Schedule
Problems
Troubleshooting Cost and Resource
Problems
Troubleshooting Scope-of-Work Problems
Applying Advanced Formatting
Formatting a Gantt Chart View
Formatting the Network Diagram
View
Formatting the Calendar View
Customizing Project
Sharing Custom Views and Other
Elements Between Project Plans
Recording Macros
Editing Macros
Customizing a Toolbar
Measuring
Performance with Earned Value Analysis
Viewing Earned Value Schedule
Indicators
Viewing Earned Value Cost
Indicators
Generating an Earned Value Visual
Report
Consolidating
Projects and Resources
Creating a Resource Pool
Viewing Assignment Details in a
Resource Pool
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