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(603) 852 79 35 akasi-commercial@akasigroup.com 1, Tara boulevard # 101, Nashua NH 03062 United States
(603) 852 79 35 akasi-commercial@akasigroup.com 1, Tara boulevard # 101, Nashua NH 03062 United States

Course details

Microsoft Project Introduction

Course 00018

Description

Microsoft Project provides the flexible and intuitive tools and solutions to help create the project plan, track progress, adjust resources as needed, and make the project more visible, so that others can see the status of a project. In this Microsoft Project training course, you gain the skills to manage and maintain control of multiple projects more efficiently for your organization.

What you'll learn

  • 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

Pre-requisites

  • • Basic knowledge of Project Management concepts
  • • This course uses Microsoft Project 2016, but many concepts apply to earlier versions of Microsoft Project

Curriculum

Overview of project management concepts that apply to Microsoft Project

Introducing the Microsoft Project interface

Customising the Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar

Producing a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Entering tasks, summary tasks and milestones

Estimating and entering task duration

Establishing relationships between tasks

Working with different types of dependencies

Adjusting the project schedule to target specific dates

Leveraging manual and automatic scheduling

Conceptualising and identifying the critical path

Analysing and managing the schedule

Implementing lag and lead

Applying deadline dates to the project plan

Setting, locating and removing task constraints

Managing master and subprojects

Controlling Your Project Plan

Creating new and updating existing calendars

Analysing the relationship between project, task and resource calendars

Changing default calendar options

Assigning calendars appropriately

Saving calendar changes to the Global template

Sharing and organising calendars

Validating the project plan

Establishing the baseline

Identifying key steps in the tracking process

Updating the project plan with tracking data

Analysing variance against the project plan

Creating graphical status indicators

Reviewing project task updates for timeline problems

Resolving issues with the project schedule

Defining work, material and cost resources

Assigning resources to tasks

Utilising budget resources

Configuring resource pools

Troubleshooting resource assignments

Investigating and resolving resource overallocations

Tracking assignment progress

Leveraging the Usage views to manage assignments

Defining stakeholder groups

Identifying project communication requirements

Examining basic and dynamic report types

Designing dashboard indicator reports

Building custom tables, filters and reports

Creating Visual Report templates

Automating reporting tasks via macros

Sharing data using the Timeline view

Overview of collaboration features

Employing import and export maps

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3000,00 €


  • • 3 days instructor-led training course
  • • After-course coaching available

  • • No schedule defined yet