Microsoft Introduction to MS Project E-learning

Course Content

Microsoft Introduction to MS Project E-learning

• Project and project terms
  • Brief overview of how microsoft project relates to project management
  • Microsoft terminology
• Creating project and resource calendars
  • Set the default working hours & week
  • Alter hours of working day
  • Set additional non-working days ie bank holidays
  • Applying a calendar to a project
  • Create a new project calendar
  • Create a new resource calendar and assign to resources
• Entering tasks
  • Enter tasks, set durations and create milestones
  • Manual vs automatic scheduling
  • Task information dialog
  • Create summary tasks
  • Create project tasks
  • Using the outline tools
  • Add notes
• Task relationships and critical path
  • Finish to Start, Start to Finish, Finish to Finish and Start to Start
  • Theory of critical path
  • Showing the critical path
  • Slack time
  • Creating lead and lag time
• Resources
  • Enter resources
  • Resource types
  • Labels, names and groups
  • Set costs, standard and overtime
  • Cost per use
  • Resource information dialog box
  • Cost rate tables
  • Fixed task costs
  • Assigning resource calendars to resources
  • Viewing availability
  • Assign resources to tasks
• Variance
  • Setting a baseline
  • Setting multiple baselines
  • Measuring variance against baselines using the gantt chart
  • Modifying the variance table to measure the required variance on the project
• Task constraints & task management
  • General (default) constraints
  • Hard constraints
  • Soft constraints
  • Deadlines
  • Remove deadlines / constraints
  • Scheduling project from start date
  • Scheduling project from finish date
  • Fixed duration vs fixed units
  • Create and assign task calendars
• Project Costing
  • Resource costs
  • Duration driven
  • Show project statistics for project cost and duration
  • Show cost table (Gantt view)
  • Identify over allocations
  • Deal with over allocations
• Tracking
  • Setting a baseline
  • Clearing a baseline
  • Marking tasks % complete
  • Using the tracking gantt to spot slippage
  • Inactivate tasks
  • Reschedule workload
  • Measure tasks using the project status
  • Splitting tasks
• Sorting, grouping & filtering
  • Sorting tasks by non-default sort order
  • Apply grouping levels
  • Use the autofilter
  • Use In-built filters for filtering tasks
• Reporting
  • Customise project dashboards to measure required information showing
  • Project overview
  • Late tasks
  • Milestones
  • Tasks by resources
• TimeLine
  • View the timeline
  • Add tasks to timeline
  • Export to word/powerpoint

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  12 months online access to our Introduction to Microsoft Project e-learning

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