Course Name: Microsoft Project Duration: 2 Days(16 Hours)
Microsoft Project is a one of the commonly used tools for project planning and monitoring. These two days program is designed to provide detailed exposure to various futures of MS Project. MS-Project helps you to simplify the project manager’s job to handle the complexities in managing single project as well as multiple projects. It also helps to effectively manage the resources.
The Professional edition includes all the features of the Standard version, plus more features like team collaboration tools and the ability to connect to Microsoft Project Server.
Program Objectives
After completion of this program, the participants will be able to the following :
- Define projects, tasks, and resources
- Plan the utilization of resources
- Resolve resource over-allocation
- Working with tasks and resource constraints
- Various views and reports to understand progress of the project
- Handling of multiple projects
- Team collaboration tools
- Connect to Microsoft Project Server
- Understanding Enhanced collaboration tools
Course Curriculum
Module 1: Getting started
- Understanding project management terminology
- Defining a project
- Different views in Microsoft Project
- Defining general working timing and working days
Module 2: About WBS, Tasks and Linking
- Activities or tasks and duration
- About summary tasks and subtasks
- Milestones and recurring tasks
- Constraints to the task
- Concepts of Lag time and Lead time
- Earned Value and Critical Path Method
- Working on Slack Period or Float
Module 3: Resources and Assigning it
- Types of resources
- Creating resources
- Individual resource calendar
- Assigning calendar to the resource
- Assigning resources to tasks
- Resource leveling (Removing resource over allocation)
- Resource availability graphs
Module 4: Costing
- Different cost tables
- Understanding internal cost calculation
- Overtime cost