MS Project Course Outline
| Module 1 | Getting Started with Microsoft Office Project 2007 |
Overview of Microsoft Office Project 2007 and project management concepts. It explains how to use the desktop interface and how to work with various file types. It also illustrates how to receive help and advice while working with MS Office Project 2007.
| Module 2 | Customizing and Formatting |
Formatting of text, bars, and other screen elements. Custom objects will be created including templates, calendars, fields, tables, filters, groups and views.
| Module 3 | Creating and Defining Projects |
Create new projects, how to define appropriate options, and how to enter, organise and outline the task list. It also explores ways to import data from other sources and provides guidance on configuring the calendar.
| Module 4 | Working with Estimates and Dependencies |
Estimate task and how to generate a dynamic schedule by creating dependencies / relationships between tasks. Various linking and unlinking techniques will be explored in multiple views and link types.
| Module 5 | Working with Deadlines, Constraints and Task Calendars |
Incorporation of various schedule restrictions. Displaying, reading, and analyzing the critical path will be discussed, along with how to use task drivers in the analysis. Task calendars will be presented as a technique to get a schedule back in line with a deadline or constraint.
| Module 6 | Working with Resources / Costs |
Resources management - how to enter the resource list and how to assign resources to tasks. Changes to the project team will be implemented by modifying resource assignments. Various types of costs will also be covered including resource costs, task costs and project budgets.
| Module 7 | Predicting Behaviour by using Task Types and Scheduling Formula |
The scheduling formula and the interaction between duration, work and units. Illustrates how recalculations occur when variables are changed. Covering recommended procedures on changing task types and changing variables for various situations.
| Module 8 | Analyzing Resource Utilization |
Manipulation techniques to display resource allocation and how to identify causes of resource overallocation. Various options for managing limited resources will be explored. Several techniques for solving overallocated resources will be explained including the levelling feature.
| Module 9 | Tracking Progress |
Manage updates to a schedule by saving baselines and tracking duration, work and cost updates. Comparison between expected and actual results will be illustrated with various views that display variance. Providing guidelines on how to troubleshoot a schedule and how to get a troubled schedule back on track.
| Module 10 | Creating Reports |
Configuration of reports – for viewing / printing and how to generate standard and visual reports. To be able to do customizations to printouts and modifications if required.
