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Want more control over your projects? This Project training gives you just that!
Do you often find yourself steering large, complex projects? Then you need to keep track of a whole lot of information. Project is there to help you keep your projects on track — Microsoft Project is THE tool for your project management. Want to see both the trees and the forest in your projects from now on? Then join this introductory Project training.
Objectives
Join our Project training and learn how to:
Create and track project schedules
Run simulations
Present project information graphically
Target audience
Anyone regularly involved in the planning, analysis and follow-up of projects. This training is also intended for users of the desktop version of Microsoft Project Online Pro for Office 365 (note: this is not the O365 browser app).
Prerequisites
Participants have at least a basic knowledge of Windows and Office. Excel skills in particular come in handy.
Contents
MS Project fundamentals
Program structure
Calculation methods
Calendars
Defining baselines
Changing existing baselines
Selecting a baseline as the project timeline
Timeline options
Tasks
Creating a task list
Task duration
Task relationships
Summary tasks and subtasks
Incorporating constraints
Recurring tasks
Using task scheduling
Evaluating the critical path
Fixed task costs
Resources
Internal or shared resources?
Resource types
Resource costs
Resource availability
Resource calendars
Assigning resources to tasks
Creating assignments
Changing assignments
Calculating work
Task types and effort-driven scheduling
Overallocation: solving the problem
Different causes, different solutions
Manual troubleshooting
Resource leveling in MS Project
Project tracking
Saving the initial plan
Viewing variance values
Saving actual values
Analyzing project statistics
Project consolidation
Saving templates
Merging projects
Reports
Using predefined reports
Creating reports based on screen views
Views, tables, filters and groups
