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Course Outline

Introduction

  • Understanding what a project entails.
  • Core principles of development projects.
  • The project management triangle.

Getting Started

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

Scheduling

  • Scheduling rules and logic.
  • Types of schedules.
  • Working with project calendars.
  • Entering tasks for scheduling.
  • Editing tasks within the schedule.
  • Defining task duration.
  • Working with continuous time tasks.
  • Estimating task duration.
  • Setting priorities for the project and individual tasks.
  • Establishing dependencies between tasks.
  • Understanding lags and leads.
  • Defining milestones.
  • Visualizing tasks across different views.

Optimizing the Schedule

  • Applying task constraints.
  • Setting deadlines.
  • Identifying critical tasks.
  • Analyzing the critical path.
  • Managing float (slack) in the project.
  • Strategies for shortening the critical path.
  • Customizing project views.

Resources

  • Defining resources.
  • Handling variable resource costs.
  • Accounting for one-time material costs.
  • Using rate tables.
  • Checking resource availability.
  • Defining work items.
  • Understanding work constant constraints.
  • Managing labor input.
  • Allocating resources to tasks.
  • Identifying resource overallocation.
  • Performing resource leveling.

Costs

  • Managing fixed costs.
  • Implementing cost control measures.
  • Tracking costs for the project, tasks, resources, and labor.

Project Execution

  • Methods for project implementation.
  • Setting and using baselines.
  • Analyzing project status.
  • Evaluating deviations from the plan.
  • Managing changes within the project.

Reports

  • Utilizing built-in reports in Microsoft Project.
  • Creating custom reports.

Data Management

  • Sorting data.
  • Using filters.
  • Grouping data for analysis.

Earned Value Analysis

Requirements

Basic familiarity with MS Office.

 14 Hours

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