Microsoft Project Introduction – 2 Day
- Course designed for project team members & managers to learn project management basics, planning, tracking, and reporting. Prerequisites include basic Windows knowledge and familiarity with Microsoft Office 2016 applications. Course covers project management basics, setting objectives, defining resources, working with calendars, resolving conflicts, tracking progress, and project consolidation.
Overview
The MS Project 2016 Training course is designed for project team members and managers to understand basic project management principles, planning, resource management, reporting, and project tracking. Participants will learn to start a project, add tasks and dependencies, work with calendars and resources, track progress, and set up project consolidation. Prerequisites include basic Windows knowledge and familiarity with Microsoft Office applications. The course covers project management basics, resource management, resolving conflicts, project views, printing project plans, working with costs, reporting, tracking progress, and project consolidation.
Who should attend
Project Team Members, Project Managers
Course Content
Course Description:
This course is designed for people who will be part of a project team or a Project Manager to enable an understanding of basic Project Management, how to plan, resource, print, report and track a project to completion. Project Consolidation is also included in this course.
Prerequisites:
Delegates attending this course should have a basic knowledge within a Windows environment and preferably have used another Microsoft Office 2016 application i.e. Word or Excel. A basic knowledge of Project Management would be advantageous but not essential.
Course Objectives
- Basics of Project Management
- Start a Project with planning
- Adding Tasks and Dependencies to the Plan
- Work with Calendars and resources
- Record Progress and Track the Plan to completion
- Report and Print the Plan
- Set up Project Consolidation
Course Content
Starting a Project
Project Management basics
Navigate the Project Interface
Setting Project Objectives
Add Tasks to a Project using Manual or Auto Scheduling
Using Lag and Lead time
Splitting Tasks
Creating Milestones
Show Slack Time (Float)
Creating Task Dependencies
Using Constraints and Deadlines on tasks
Critical Tasks and The Critical Path
Save a Project
Defining Project Resources
Adding Work, Material and Cost Project Resources
Assign Resources to Tasks
Understanding Effort Driven Tasks
Working with Project Calendars
Types of Calendars in Project 2016
Create New Calendars and Assign to Resources
Edit Working Time
Add Calendars to the Organizer
Resolving Resource Conflicts
Find Overallocations
What can you do about it?
Resolve Resource Conflicts Automatically
Use Project Levelling
Overview of Project 2016 Views
Task Views and Resource Views
Sheet, Graph and Form Views
Filter your Data
Group your Data
Printing the Project Plan
Print Project Views
Reporting in Project
Working with Costs
Displaying Costs
Reporting in Project
Dashboard Reports
Resource Reports
Cash Reports
In Progress Reports
Tracking Progress
Setting one or more Baselines in your Plan
Recoding Progress in your Plan
Updating Actual Work
Tracking Actual Work against Actual Cost
Viewing Actual and Baseline data
Viewing Different Baselines
Clear the Baseline
Final Assessment of the Plan
Project Consolidation
Creating a Master Plan
Creating a Resource Pool
Sharing the Resource Pool with Projects
Cross Project Linking
Duration:2 Days
Cost:£475 + VAT
MS Project Training Scotland, Inverness, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and onsite courses available throughout the UK.
