Project Management
Advanced
Mastering Microsoft Project
Learn the essentials of Microsoft Project so you can create, resource, baseline and update project plans with confidence — including Project for the Web.
- Delivery
- 12 hours
- Delivery
- Live online · English or French
- Price
- C$799
Per participant. Prices exclude HST and GST.
What you'll walk away with
- Build task lists, dependencies and schedules
- Resolve resource conflicts and manage costs
- Track progress against baseline
Course objectives
- Understand the basic purpose and operation of the software, and work with views, Ribbon tabs and buttons
- Create a new project and create, edit and outline a task list, and link tasks
- Add and assign resources, work with project calendars, and enter project costs
- Apply page setup options, create headers and footers, and print project information
- Apply task type settings, set task constraints, and define and format the critical path
- Edit resource assignments, resolve over-allocations, and set and modify a baseline
- Track project progress and compare baseline vs actual data
Course outline
1
Unit 1: Overview of MS Project
- Project management concepts
- Exploring the Ribbon and tabs
- Saving projects
- Changing the view and moving within a view
2
Unit 2: Project Creation
- Project information
- Creating, editing and outlining task lists
- Creating and modifying task dependencies
3
Unit 3: Project Resources & Costs
- Entering project resources
- Resource assignment concepts and assigning resources
- Working with project, resource and task calendars
- Entering project costs
4
Unit 4: Scheduling Methods
- Working with task constraints
- Identifying factors affecting tasks
- Defining the critical path
5
Unit 5: Resolving Resource Conflicts
- Editing resource assignments
- Locating and resolving resource over-allocations
- Saving the baseline
6
Unit 6: Tracking Project Progress
- Tracking task progress and updating tasks
- Updating tasks using various tables
- Comparing actual vs planned data
7
Unit 7: Sorting, Filtering & Grouping Tasks
- Sorting and filtering views
- Grouping tasks and resources
- Modifying Gantt chart views
8
Unit 8: Working with Project for the Web
- Overview of Project for the Web
- Creating a new project or roadmap in Project Home
- Entering task information and creating dependencies
- Navigating grid, board, timeline and chart views
- Working with Project for the Web in Microsoft Teams
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I deliver every session personally, 100% live online, in a full day or two half days — in English or French.