Microsoft Project Part 2
Who is the course for?
This hands-on course is for experienced users of Microsoft Project who want to enhance their expertise.
Pre-requisites
Participants need to have some experience with MS Project – entering tasks, scheduling with milestones, deadlines and task relationships, assigning resources to tasks and printing reports and views. Although formal training is not necessary , participants should be familiar with most of the topics covered in Optimum’s MS Project Level 1 course.
What are the objectives of the course?
By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:
Identify and fix problems in your schedule
Manage the project as it progresses, tracking work in progress and managing conflicts
Work with costs and budgets
Combine multiple projects and consolidate resources
Collaborate with team members, other project managers or project sponsors
Share project information with other programs, such as Excel or Access
Customise Project to match your way of working
What does the course cover?
Review resource management: resource driven or effort driven scheduling; assigning resources to tasks; resource costs, accrued costs and fixed costs; identifying and resolving resource conflicts and over-allocation.
Tracking: Updating the schedule: understanding tracking techniques, using the Tracking toolbar; adding the actual times and costs; updating tasks; progress bars; working with baselines; comparing baselines with actual data; making the most of tracking views and tables.
Working with costs: Applying costs to resources; assigning different rates to a resource; adding fixed costs; assessing costs; views to help with costs; using Excel links
Collaborating: Sharing resources and resolving conflicts; creating a resource pool; attaching to a resource pool; monitoring all resource assignments; combining projects quickly; keeping information up-to-date; updating working times; opening a sharer file and updating the resource pool; creating dependency between projects
Sharing information with other applications: Exchanging information with Excel and Access; copying and pasting information; opening or saving other file formats
Customising Project: Creating a custom view or a custom table; creating and using a Project template; customising the Global template; personalising toolbars and menus; recording and running a macro.
How long does the course last?
1 day
The content of the course may vary depending on the version you are using. Please call 020 7776 9876 to confirm your version before booking the course.
