PDUs: 14
Learning Objectives
- Create, manage, and update effective project schedules
- Create and manage resources, resource pools and assignments
- Learn the do’s and don’ts of working with Microsoft® Project Professional
- Create useful views for tracking, dashboards, printing, task usage, etc.
- Formatting tricks for automating critical path tracking
- Use reporting functions more effectively
Who should take this course?
Project managers, project team members, project schedulers . . . and anyone who has used Microsoft® Project Professional and had a hard time getting it to do what they wanted.
Course Outline
| Effective Use of Microsoft Project |
Managing and Tracking of Projects |
- MS Project Overview
- Avoiding the pitfalls of working with MS
- Project
- Creating project schedules, segments, milestones
- Creating task relationships & dependencies
- Setting task constraints and outlining
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- Utilizing scheduling methods to shorten the critical path of a project
- Utilizing MS Project Tools and Views to resolve resource conflicts
- Advanced resource scheduling techniques
- Managing costs, tracking baselines
- Tracking completion of actual work between tasks and resources
- Applying resource contours for forecasting and analyzing resource availability
- Managing and viewing planned and actual durations, costs and schedules
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| Applying Resources and Calendars |
Working with External Data & Applications |
- Creating and utilizing resource pools
- Applying layers of calendars
- Utilizing project views
- Formatting schedule layouts
- Utilizing project reports
- Understanding printing
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- Linking data between applications
- Importing & exporting data
- Hyperlinking and web pages
- Utilizing business analysis templates
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| Customizing for Better Management Results |
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- Using filters, tables, details and groups
- Creating views, filters, tables, and groups
- MS Project scheduling methodologies
- Utilizing effort‐driven scheduling
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