This two day course is designed to familiarise you with Microsoft Project .
What can Microsoft Project do for you?
Microsoft Project will help you define, schedule, monitor tasks and manage your resources and associated costs using a variety of tool. When your project is under way, you will be able to analyse valuable project information and track progress so that you can make necessary adjustments to keep your project on target and within budget. You will also find the built in reports very useful they will help you to communicate the plan and keep everyone informed regarding the current status of the project.
By booking your training with us you will be helping to support and develop a sustainable, not for profit IT resource within the Communities First area, encouraging more community engagement and raising awareness of other development opportunities and leisure time activities locally.
Prior Knowledge: No previous knowledge of Microsoft Project is needed
Aims and Objectives:
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Understand Project Basics
- Successfully define your project
- Start Microsoft Project, use the interface, save, open and close a project
- Change working hours and add non-working days
- Work with Tasks – Work with tasks and durations
- Make Adjustments to Tasks – Link and unlink tasks
- Insert, delete and move tasks
- Change relationships
- Apply constraints
- Add lead or lag time
- Outline Tasks – indent, and outdent tasks
- View the WBS codes
- Work with and change views
- Work with resources
- Create resources
- Assign resources to tasks
- Work with Calendars
- Change resources working hours
- Add non working days
- Adjust resources
- Address resource over allocation
- Assign Costs
- Define costs, assign standard and overtime rates
- Work with the Critical Path – view and shorten the critical path
- Work with Baselines – use baseline tables and save a project baseline
- Track Progress – update tasks on and not on schedule
- View slippage and summary information
- Work with Reports – create and preview reports
- Change page set-up options
- Print reports
- Finalise a Project – mark tasks as complete,
- Correct actual data
- The Basics of Earned Value Analysis
- Evaluate final data – view earned value
Benefits: At the end of this course you will have a good working knowledge of Project basics. You will feel confident using Project and be able to define, schedule and monitor tasks using a variety of tools and views.
