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Introduction

  • Definition of a project.
  • Key principles of project development.
  • The triple constraint model.

Getting Started

  • Installing the application.
  • Overview of Microsoft Project features.
  • Accessing Help resources.
  • Saving, searching, and opening projects.
  • Navigating basic views.

Scheduling

  • Core scheduling rules.
  • Types of schedules.
  • Working with Project calendars.
  • Entering tasks into the schedule.
  • Editing scheduled tasks.
  • Defining task durations.
  • Working with continuous time tasks.
  • Estimating task duration.
  • Setting project and task priorities.
  • Establishing task dependencies.
  • Applying lead and lag.
  • Defining milestones.
  • Visualizing tasks across different views.

Optimizing the Schedule

  • Applying task constraints.
  • Setting deadlines.
  • Identifying critical tasks.
  • Analyzing the critical path.
  • Managing float in the project.
  • Crashing the critical path.
  • Customizing views.

Resources

  • Defining resources.
  • Understanding variable resource costs.
  • Understanding one-time costs for assignments.
  • Setting rate tables.
  • Managing resource availability.
  • Defining work.
  • The work formula constants.
  • Understanding effort-driven scheduling.
  • Assigning resources to tasks.
  • Identifying overallocated resources.
  • Resolving resource overallocations.

Costs

  • Fixed costs.
  • Cost control strategies.
  • Tracking project, task, resource, and work costs.

Project Execution

  • Implementation methods.
  • Setting the baseline.
  • Analyzing project status.
  • Evaluating variances.
  • Managing project changes.

Reporting

  • Using standard reports in Microsoft Project.
  • Creating custom reports.

Data Management

  • Sorting data.
  • Using filters.
  • Grouping data.

Earned Value Analysis

Requirements

Basic familiarity with MS Office is recommended.

 14 Hours

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