Microsoft Project Training Course
Introduction
This course is designed for project managers or people that are involved with the administration of managing a project.
This course is designed for people who are building simple projects or those who need to work with a project that has been developed by someone else. It will give a delegates a solid understanding of the steps needed to set up the MS Project environment and then develop a basic project. Participants should be experienced Windows users.
At the end of this course you will have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Project. You will feel confident using Project and be able to define, schedule and monitor tasks using a variety of tools and views.
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Format: One day, maximum capacity of 6
Getting started
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Project Management Concepts
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Working with Project Files
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Manual & Auto Scheduling
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Closing Project Files & Closing Project
Gantt Chart
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Understanding the Gantt Chart
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Formatting the Gantt Chart
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Showing the Critical Path
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Showing Non Working Time
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Displaying Guide Lines
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Understanding Time Scales
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Calendar
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Setting up basic Calendar
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Applying Calendar
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Working with tasks
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Creating a Task List
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Modifying a Task List
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Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
Summary tasks
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Setting up Summary Tasks
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Adding a Project Summary
Scheduling tasks
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Setting up Task Links
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Setting Dependency Types
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Understanding Leads & Lags
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Effort Driven Tasks
Constraints
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Understanding Constraints
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Constraint types
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Setting up Constraints
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Removing Constraints
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Managing Resources
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Entering resources
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Applying resources
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Changing resources
Working with Views and Tables
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Working with Views
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Working with Tables
Tracking the Project
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Setting the Baseline
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Viewing the Baseline
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Showing Complete Tasks
Printing
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Printing different Views