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Course Outline

Introduction

  • Defining a project.
  • Core principles of project development
  • The triple constraint model

Getting Started

  • Installing the application
  • Overview of Microsoft Project features
  • Accessing help resources
  • Saving, opening, and searching for projects
  • Understanding basic views

Scheduling

  • Scheduling rules and logic
  • Types of scheduling methods
  • Configuring project calendars
  • Entering tasks into the schedule
  • Editing tasks within the schedule
  • Defining task duration
  • Work-continuous tasks
  • Estimating task duration
  • Setting priorities for projects and tasks
  • Establishing task dependencies
  • Applying lag and lead times
  • Identifying milestones
  • Visualizing tasks across different views

Optimizing the Schedule

  • Applying task constraints
  • Setting deadlines
  • Identifying critical tasks
  • Analyzing the critical path
  • Managing float (slack) time in the project
  • Shortening the critical path
  • Customizing project views

Resources

  • Defining resources
  • Variable resource costs
  • One-time resource costs
  • Using rate tables
  • Managing resource availability
  • Defining jobs/work assignments
  • Understanding work constant factors
  • Calculating labor input
  • Allocating resources to tasks
  • Identifying resource overallocations
  • Resolving resource conflicts (balancing)

Costs

  • Fixed costs
  • Cost control strategies
  • Tracking costs for projects, tasks, resources, and work

Project Execution

  • Project implementation methods
  • Setting baselines
  • Analyzing project status
  • Analyzing variances
  • Managing project changes

Reports

  • Generating standard reports in Microsoft Project
  • Creating custom reports

Data Management

  • Sorting data
  • Applying filters
  • Grouping data

Earned Value Analysis

Requirements

Basic familiarity with MS Office is recommended.

 14 Hours

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