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    Project Management Essentials and Using Microsoft Project

    Course Duration: Two Days

    Target Audience:

    All employees of an organisation who engage in projects and who would benefit from having a detailed understanding of how projects are best planned, executed, monitored, and controlled to ensure a successful outcome.

    Course Objectives:

    This course goes beyond the traditional boundaries of Microsoft Project training by providing the background Project Management Process knowledge that Project Managers need to develop effective project schedules using MS Project.

    Course Outline:

    DAY ONE

    Course Introduction

    The Execution Gap

    • What Does Good Project Execution Look Like?
    • What are the Barriers?
    • How can Project Management Approaches Help?

    Project Management Introduction

    • Project Management Principles
    • Project Life Cycle & Project Phases
    • Project Management Process Groups
    • PMBOK Methodology Overview

    Project Management Planning (PMP)

    • What Should a PMP contain?
    • Work Breakdown Structures
    • Characteristics of Good Project Management
    • Time Management and Schedule Development
    • Gantt Chart Exercise

    Monitoring and Controlling Projects

    • How to Manage Changes to Scope
    • RACI (Including Exercise)
    • Critical Path Method
    • How to Construct a Network Diagram
    • How to Control a Schedule
    • Performance Criteria

    Project Reporting and Control

    • Effective Progress Meetings
    • Setting Up Effective Team Structures & Assigning Responsibilities
    • Communication Planning Risk & Issue Management Process
    • Project Status Reports
    • What is Earned Value?
    • Project Close-Out

    Summary and Review of Day One

    DAY TWO

    Microsoft Project as an Execution Tool

    Creating a Project

    • Steps for Starting a Project
    • Project Information & Calendar
    • Tasks & Milestones
    • Structure – Summary and Sub-Tasks
    • Task Relationships / Dependencies
    • Lag and Lead Time
    • Identifying the Critical Path / Time Constraints
    • Project Baseline

    Managing the Project

    • Assigning Resources to Tasks
    • Task Types – Effort / Non-Effort Driven Tasks
    • Tracking the Project
    • Using & Modifying Views
    • Applying & Modifying Tables and Filters

    Printing

    • Printing the Current View
    • Page Layouts
    • Headers / Footers / Legends

    Case Study

    • Day One Gantt Chart Applied to Microsoft Project

    Pre-Designed Reports in Microsoft Project

    Using Multiple Projects

    Course Summary and Review

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