Description

Look at some of the more advanced planning features available in Project.

Course overview

Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours)

Our Project – Advanced Planning and Control course looks at advanced planning and resourcing techniques in Microsoft Project and how to customise your schedule to give better visibility and flexibility.

The course is designed for experienced users of Project who have attended our Project Planning and Control introduction course or have equivalent knowledge. You must be confident using Project to build and resource schedules and create task dependencies.

Objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to:

Work with different types of task
Amend resource load on a task
Work with multiple resource rates
Create custom tables
Add custom fields
Create calculated fields
Add drop down lists in fields
Filter and extract information
Create new views
Export information

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Content

Advanced planning techniques

Splitting tasks
Task types
Spreading work across activities

Advanced resourcing techniques

Resource types
Assignment views
Effective dates
Work contours
Overtime work
Using multiple resource rates

Creating custom tables

Customising tables
Adding fields

Creating custom fields

Adding text, number, date and time fields
Using flag fields
Defining pick lists
Renaming custom fields

Creating calculated fields

Creating formulas
Using graphical indicators

Uploading and tracking progress

Completing work
Completing work per resource
Updating tasks
Updating the project
Working with the status date
Rescheduling work
Viewing baseline against schedule
Project overview statistics

Working with filters

Building standard filters
Building interactive filters
Task and resource filters
Using highlight filters

Creating custom views

Creating customised views
Customising text styles
Using grouping techniques

Exporting information

Exporting to Excel

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Project Advanced Planning and Control

By Underscore Group

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