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    Microsoft Project Introduction

    Course Duration: Two Day

    Target Audience:

    Aimed at Project Managers, Team Leaders and those involved in projects.

    Course Objectives:

    To use Microsoft Project effectively for setting up projects, resource management, tracking progress, reporting and communicating to stakeholders.

    Course Outline:

    DAY ONE

    INTRODUCTION

    • Introduction to Microsoft Project
    • Project Management Techniques
    • Using the ‘Tell me what you want to do…’ Feature
    • The Project Guide Toolbar

    GETTING STARTED

    • Essential Steps for creating a new Project in Microsoft Project
    • Setting the Project Start Date
    • The Project Calendar
    • Project Information

    TASK MAINTENANCE

    • Entering and Editing Tasks
    • Auto Scheduled vs. Manual Scheduled
    • Moving, Copying, Deleting Tasks
    • Milestones
    • Promoting / Demoting Tasks
    • Task Durations

    TASK SEQUENCING

    • Types of Links
    • Lead and Lag Times
    • Time Constraints

    OTHER TASK FUNCTIONS

    • Recurring Tasks
    • Splitting Tasks
    • Inactive tasks
    • Attach Notes / Hyperlinks to Tasks
    • Filtering Tasks
    • Grouping Tasks
    • The Project Summary Task

    VIEWS

    • The Tracking Gantt
    • The Network Diagram
    • The Timeline View
    • The Critical Path Explained
    • Displaying the Critical Path

    TABLES

    • Applying Tables to a View
    • Customising Tables

    FORMATTING

    • Format Text
    • Format Bars
    • Format Timescale
    • Format Layout

    PRINTING

    • Printing the Project
    • Page Layouts
    • Headers and Footers
    • Legends

    DAY ONE SUMMARY AND REVIEW

    • Recap of Topics Covered

    DAY TWO

    REVIEW OF DAY ONE

    RESOURCES

    • Work and Material Resources
    • Entering and Editing Resources
    • Grouping Resources
    • Adjusting a Resource’s Calendar
    • Attach Notes / Hyperlinks to Resources

    TASK TYPES

    • Fixed Work
    • Fixed Duration
    • Fixed Units

    ASSIGNING RESOURCES TO TASKS

    • Effort Driven Scheduling Explained
    • Assign Resources to Tasks
    • Assign Material Resources to Tasks
    • Filtering in the Assign Resources Window
    • Resource Over-Allocations
    • Resolving Resource Over-Allocations

    MORE VIEWS

    • The Task Usage View
    • The Resource Usage View
    • Filtering in Views

    SETTING THE PROJECT

    • What is a Baseline?
    • Setting a Baseline
    • Clearing the Baseline
    • Viewing the Baseline

    PROJECT PROGRESS

    • Marking Tasks as Complete
    • Project Statistics

    ADVANCED FORMATTING

    • Format the Gantt Chart with Resource Data

    TABLES

    • View Tables
    • Modify Tables

    REPORTS

    • Using Project’s Pre-Designed Reports

    MASTER PROJECTS AND SHARED RESOURCES

    • The concept of Master Projects and Shared
    • Resources explained

    COMMUNICATING THE PROJECT

    • Capturing the Gantt Chart as an Image File
    • Export Project Data to Excel

    DAY TWO SUMMARY AND REVIEW

    • Recap of Topics Covered
    • Question Time
    • Discuss Participant’s own Projects
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