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Microsoft Project Introduction – 2 Day

Course Cost £475 +VAT
Duration 2 DAYS
  • 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.

Who Should Attend

Project Team Members, Project Managers
Course Cost £475 +VAT
Duration 2 DAYS

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