Microsoft Project Introduction

(2 day course)

Introduction

This 2-day course introduces the delegates to the key concepts of project management and then takes them through setting up a project plan by creating tasks, setting time constraints and then adding resources such as people or equipment. The second day concentrates on running a project by posting progress, dealing with resource conflicts and managing multiple projects.

Course Aims

To provide an in depth knowledge of the use of Microsoft Project in creating a project plan and to show how it can be applied to the management of a project in a real situation. To show the method of running a project and extracting data from the final plan.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

• Create a project plan with summary and detailed tasks
• Apply Resources to the plan and manage resource conflicts
• Enter progress against Tasks and reschedule in the event of slippage
• Manage multiple projects through a common Master Plan
• Obtain detail from the final Plan in the form of Reports and views

Course Contents

(If requested courses can be tailored to cover specific work requirements)

Project Management Concepts

• The project lifecycle
• Outlining

Project Overview

• Getting started: menus and views
• System options: base calendar

Creating a new plan

• Outlining the plan
• Outlining and entering task information
• Linking task dependencies

Resource Management

• Defining resources and resource costs
• Defining resource working time
• Allocating resources to Tasks

Dealing with Resource conflict

• Examining resource conflicts
• Using Resource levelling
• Locating over allocations

Tracking Project progress

• Saving a Baseline Plan
• Posting progress
• Rescheduling Tasks

Multiple Project management

• Creating a Resource Pool
• Creating a Master Plan

Obtaining data from Project

• Using Reports
• Creating Views
• Creating Web Page links

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