Microsoft Project 2010
Course Duration: 2 Days
Cost: £475 + VAT
Overview
Students will learn the fundamentals of Microsoft Project 2010 in this 2 day course. Learn the basics of designing a Project Plan, assigning resources their tasks, changing and implementing calendars, using views and filters to assemble information, and print out your Project Plan. Looking at the cost implications of the project and tracking the project to its completion. Additional topics cover the customisation of reports and consolidating Master and Subordinate projects along with customising the Tabs within the Ribbon.
Prerequisites
Delegates should have experience of the windows environment. Knowledge of Project Management is useful but not essential as some of these principles are discussed on the course.
Key Learning Points
Project Management and the Project Life Cycle
• What is a Project?
• What is Project Management?
• Planning with Work Breakdown Structure
• The Project Life Cycle
Getting Started with Project
• What is Microsoft Project?
• The File Tab (Backstage View)
• The Ribbon
• The Quick Access Toolbar
• Screen Overview
• Opening an existing Project
• The Gantt Chart View
• Tables used in Project
• System Options
• Base Calendars
Setting Project Objectives
• The Project Information Dialog Box
• Outlining the Plan
• Inserting and Editing Tasks
• Inserting Task Notes
• Manual Schedule Vs Auto Schedule
• Entering Task Durations
• Entering Milestones
• Entering Recurring Tasks
• Changing Task Information
• Saving the Project
Task Dependencies
• Task Relationships
• Lag and Lead time
• Splitting Tasks
• Understanding Critical Tasks and the Critical Path
• Slack Time
• Entering Task Constraints
Defining Resources
• Adding Resources to the Plan
• Assigning Resources their tasks
• Effort Driven Scheduling
• Resource Scheduling
• Fixed Duration
• Fixed Work
• Fixed Units
Using Calendars
• The type of Calendars used in Project
• Making changes to the Project Calendar
• Making changes to the Resources Calendar
• Creating and assigning a new Calendar
Resolving Resource Conflicts
• Resource Management Toolbar
• Find Overallocations
• What do you do about it?
• Resolving Resource Conflicts Automatically
• Levelling the Project
• Viewing effects of levelling
Overview of Project Views
• The Views Bar
• Timeline View
• Team Planner View
• Other Views within Project
• Filtering data using the Filter
• Filtering data using the AutoFilter
• Grouping data using the Group feature
Printing your Project
• Preparing your Project for Print (WYSIWYG)
• Printing Gantt Charts
• Controlling multiple pages
• Page Height and Width
• Formatting Headers, Footers and Legends
• Manipulating the print with the View Tab
• The Print Dialog Box
Reporting in Project
• Overview of list of reports
• Visual Reports
• Cost Reports
• Comparison Reports
• Assignment Reports
• Workload Reports
• Building a Custom Report
Working with Costs
• Displaying Cost information
• Entering fixed costs
• Controlling costs
• Reducing costs Tracking Progress
• Recording Progress
• Saving a Baseline
• Update scheduled tasks
• Update Actual Start and Actual Finish
• Reschedule tasks not yet started
• Tracking Actual Tasks against Actual Work
• Viewing Costs over Budget
• Updating when timesheets received
• Viewing Actual and Baseline Data
• Final assessment of the Plan
Project Consolidation
• Resource Pool
• Verify Pool Links
• Sharing Pool with other projects
• Resolving Overallocations in a Resource Pool
• Creating a Master Plan
• Cross-Project Task Linking
Customise the Ribbon
• Add buttons to an existing Tab
• Add a New Tab
• Add/Remove Buttons on the New Tab
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