Description

Learn how to use Microsoft Project to create and resource robust project plans and how to maintain and track throughout the project lifecycle.

Course overview

Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours)

Our Project Planning and Control course gives you the essential skills to use Microsoft Project to build, resource and monitor project schedules. It looks at initial setup, building plans, using a work breakdown structure and managing resources through to baselining and progressing your schedule.

This course is designed for new or existing users of Microsoft Project, and no previous experience of Project is required. Knowledge of planning techniques would be an advantage.

Objectives

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

Create project schedules

Build a Work Breakdown Structure

Create relationships

Set baselines

Manage resources

Set deadlines and task properties

Print and report on your project

Update and track project schedules

Content

Creating a new project

Project defaults

Project start date

Setting default hours per day/week

Setting daily working times

Project timeline

Building a project

Creating a work breakdown structure

Adding tasks and durations

Estimated durations

Setting milestones

Recurring tasks

Linking, Baselining and Resourcing

Setting start dates and dependencies

Task Inspector

Resourcing

Assigning resources

Filtering available resources

Baseline

Setting a baseline

Removing a baseline

Managing resources

Resource properties

Dealing with over allocations

Tasking information

Constraint dates

Setting deadline

Assigning task specific calendars

Task types

Updating your project

Completing work

Completing work per resource

Updating tasks

Updating the project

Rescheduling work

Change highlighting

Printing and reporting

Setup and Printing

Visual reports

Using the Timeline

Creating Dashboard reports

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Project Planning and Control

By Underscore Group

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