This 3 day course provides project managers with the knowledge and skills necessary to create and maintain projects with Project Professional 2007 and Project Server 2007. The course is run for project management professionals. Delegates for the course should have a reasonably good computer skills.

To create and manage server driven projects.

• Understand the Project Server environment
• Use project the web access interface
• Create and edit project proposals
• Create and manage projects
• Manage resources
• Track and manage task progress
• Use project workspace and functions
• Manage status reports
• Manage alerts and reminders

INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT SERVER 2007

 

Microsoft project server overview

Understand project server terminology

Using enterprise resource management tools understanding windows sharepoint services understanding project server databases

Understanding project server data analysis

Understanding enterprise global concepts

Understanding custom fields

 

PREPARING TO USE PROJECT SERVER

 

Using the project web access user interface creating a login account in project professional 2007

 

WORKING WITH PROPOSALS

 

Working with proposals

Creating a proposal

Building a team on a proposal

Publishing a proposal

 

CREATING AN ENTERPRISE PROJECT

 

Converting a proposal to an enterprise project creating an enterprise project using project professional 2007

Understanding the local cache

Opening and closing projects

Working with offline projects

Importing projects

 

TASK PLANNING

 

Understanding change highlighting

Planning project tasks

Using task dependencies

Setting task constraints and deadline dates

 

RESOURCE AND ASSIGNMENT PLANNING

 

Understand enterprise resources

Building a project team

Assigning resources

Using the resource substitution wizard

Levelling over allocated resources

 

PROJECT EXECUTION

 

Analyzing the critical path

Understanding task drivers

Working with project baselines

Understanding publishing

 

TRACKING TIME AND PROGRESS

 

Tracking time in project web access

Tracking task progress in project web access using the task center

Publishing a proposal

 

APPROVING TASK PROGRESS SUBMISSIONS

 

Viewing timesheets

Approving timesheets

Approving administrative time requests

Viewing task updates

Approving task updates

Viewing the task updates history

Creating rules for accepting task updates

 

WORKING WITH THE PROJECT WORKSPACE

 

Understanding the project workspace

Managing risks

Managing issues

Managing project documents

Working with existing documents in a documents library

Using team discussions

Using calendars

Setting alerts

Editing in datasheet

Viewing as rss feeds

Creating columns

Creating views

Managing the project workspace

 

WORKING WITH STATUS REPORTS

 

Requesting a status report

Responding to a status report request

Viewing status report response

 

WORKING IN THE RESOURCE CENTER

 

Using the resource center

Viewing resource availability

Viewing resource assignments

Editing resource details

 

WORKING WITH DATA ANALYSIS

 

Understanding data analysis views

Using data analysis toolbars

 

MANAGING PERSONAL SETTINGS

 

Personal settings overview

Managing alerts and reminders for yourself

Managing alerts and reminders for your resources

Managing my queued jobs