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Microsoft Project Essentials

This fundamental 2-day participatory discussion course will provide you with the hands-on skills to plan, manage and report project activities using Microsoft Project. The scheduling techniques are learned through a series of progressive exercises which simulate a real project.

At the beginning of each exercise, participants load a new project file which contains all the information correctly input from the previous exercise. As a result, those with slower typing skills are not left behind. By completion, participants will have fully defined a project from beginning to end, and will have performed project updates and reporting.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This course is designed for individuals and organisations requiring an understanding of microsoft project for project planning, monitoring, updates and reporting. This include Project Coordinators, Project Leaders, Project Managers, Project Supervisors, IT Professionals, Telecoms Engineers, Product Managers, Bankers,Consultants, Business Starters, SME Enterpreneurs, Government Contractors, Civil Engineers, Architects, Mechanical Engineers.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
  • Develop capability to access old and new projects data.
  • Improve project reporting and archiving.
  • Helps in correctly estimating project cost and time schedules so that deadlines can be set and met.
  • Widely recognized by organisations worldwide.
COURSE OUTLINE
It is divided into 13 modules, the topics covered will include:
  • Introduction To Projects And Creating Tasks - Entering Tasks, Durations, Milestones, Phases, Linking Tasks, Documenting Tasks, Checking the Plan’s Duration.
  • Setting Up Resources - People, Equipment, Material, and Cost Resources, Entering Resource Pay Rates, Adjusting Working Time for Individual Resources, Documenting Resources
  • Assigning Resources To Tasks - Assigning Work Resources, The Scheduling Formula, Assigning Additional Resources, Assigning Material Resources, Assigning Cost Resources
  • Formatting and Printing Your Plan - Creating a Custom Gantt Chart, Formatting Text in a View, Formatting and Printing Reports
  • Tracking Progress On Tasks - Saving a Project Baseline, Tracking a Project as Scheduled, Entering a Task’s Completion Percentage, Entering Actual Values for Tasks, Is the Project on Track?
  • Fine-Tuning Task Details - Adjusting Task Relationships, Setting Task Constraints, Viewing the Project’s Critical Path and Float, Adjusting Working Time for Individual Tasks, Entering Deadline Dates, Fixed Costs
  • Fine-Tuning Resource And Assignment Details - Entering Multiple Pay Rates, Setting up Resource Availability, Applying Different Cost Rates to Assignments, Entering Material Resource Consumption Rates
  • Fine-Tuning The Project Plan - Examining Resource Allocations over Time, Manually Resolving Resource Over-Allocations, Examining Project Costs
  • Tracking Progress On Tasks and Assignments - Updating a Baseline, Tracking Actual and Remaining Values, Tracking Time-phased Actual Work, Rescheduling Incomplete Work
  • Viewing And Reporting Project Status - Identifying Tasks That Have Slipped, Examining Task Costs, Examining Resource Costs, Reporting Project Cost Variance with a Stoplight View
  • Getting Your Project Back On Track - Troubleshooting Time and Schedule Problems, Troubleshooting Cost and Resource Problems, Troubleshooting Scope-of-Work Problems
  • Applying Advanced Formatting - Formatting a Gantt Chart View

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