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Microsoft Project 1
| Level | Introduction |
| Date/Venue | 09/09/10 - Southampton 30/09/10 - Salsibury |
| Duration | 2 days |
| Time | 9:30 to 16:30 |
| Price | Net - £390.00 VAT - £68.25 Gross - £458.25 |
In addition to delivering projects on schedule and within budget, today’s project teams must reduce time to market and cope with rapidly shifting conditions. Microsoft Project is a powerful tool to help you break projects down into manageable parts, identify potential bottlenecks and generate information to keep your projects under control.
This two day course will be useful to potential project managers, or those working on a company project. Discussion about your projects or potential projects can be included in the course. On completion you should feel confident in your ability to work with this application and feel comfortable with the terms used in Project.
- Create a working Project schedule to reflect accurate work, costs and scheduled resources.
- Manage and update the Project schedule, deal with conflicts and manage resources.
- Plan projects, tasks, activities and the use of resources using Microsoft Project
- Develop and schedule projects timelines
- Assign and optimise teams and resources
- Manage costs and schedules for multiple projects
- Track project progress to detect and avert impending problems
- Produce essential management reports
Set up Options - Key options - Set up project calendar - Assign project calendar - Test for accuracy
Tasks - Insert tasks - Re-order tasks - Delete tasks
Estimating Critical Factors - Determine task duration - Calculate level of effort - Cost issues
Structuring Tasks - Link tasks using dependencies- Identify the critical path - Display task relationships - Lead and lag links - Edit and delete dependencies
Establishing Significant Milestones - Set up project milestones- Specify recurring events
Creating the Gantt Chart - Manage the scheduled start/finish dates - Display and format the data - Show slack on non-critical tasks
Create the Resource Sheet [Resource Pool] - Name project resources- Set standard values -Edit resources - Cost resources - Manage resources
Plan Resource Usage - Determine resource availability- Assign resources to tasks- Access a resource pool - Share with other projects
Set a Project Baseline - Identify resource over-allocation- Use slack to remove conflicts- Optimize resources- Adjust the project budget- Save and reset the project baseline
Analyze and Track a Project - Enter actual work, cost and duration - Display planned vs. actual data - Evaluate variances to the plan- View data in different forms - Use standard reports
Run Multiple Projects - Control the resource pool and its resources
React to Shifting Conditions - Identify alternative solutions- Take corrective actions - Manage changes
Report across Multiple Projects - Consolidate multiple projects demonstration
Integrate with other Applications - Link work and costs between Project and Excel - Transfer data to Word and PowerPoint
If you wish to discuss any part of the course please don’t hesitate to contact us on 01489 588453
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