MS Project - Advanced
Introduction
This one day course provides practical training on how to plan and schedule projects using Microsoft Project. On completion of the course delegates will have acquired the skills needed to create a new project. This will include -entering tasks, resources and cost information; analysing and adjusting schedules with date, dependency and resource constraints; customising and printing Gantt chart views and reports; recording and reviewing task progress against the baseline.
This highly interactive Advanced level course is built around managing actual projects. The benefits gained from this course can be applied to all project types of any scope.
Course Content
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Project Management Concepts
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Customising views
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- Project management
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- Working with Global.mpt
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- The project lifecycle
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- Designing a table
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- Outlining
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- Designing views and filters
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Scheduling with Dates
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Resources
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- Quick scheduling
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- Resource management concepts
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- Entering task duration
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- Resource allocation and aggregation
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- Entering “Date Constraints”
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- Optimisation of resources
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- Defining resources
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- Planning Techniques
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- Resource scheduling
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- Networks; Gantt Charts
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- Finding resource conflicts
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- Critical path analysis
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- Resolving conflicts
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- Resource workload reports
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Scheduling with Dependencies
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- Entering dependencies
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Project Costs
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- Critical path review
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- Costing
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Printing Charts and Reports
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- Updating the Plan
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- Printing Gantt Charts
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- Concepts of progress reporting
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- Reports Gallery
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- Baselining
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- Printing task notes
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- “What If” changes
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- Recording progress
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