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Effective Project Scheduling with Microsoft Project

2-day course    $895    14 PDUs

This 2-day course teaches the fundamentals of using Microsoft Project to create a project schedule.  The course is geared towards the novice user of Microsoft Project who wants to learn the basics of creating a project schedule.  This course covers setting up a new project, working with major task views and tables, creating a task list, establishing dependencies, fixed duration and work effort, assigning and modifying resources, project networks, creating the schedule baseline, and tracking project performance. Includes a class book for each student.  This is a hands-on course and each student is required to bring a laptop with Microsoft Project 2000 or later.

This course covers:

• Setting up a New Project

• Views and tables

• Creating the Work Breakdown Structure

• Establishing dependencies

• Duration and work effort

• Assigning resources

• Project network overview

• Creating the schedule baseline

• Tracking/updating project schedule

You will learn to:

• Understand how to set up a new project using the defaults

• Understand which fields in the Project Information Dialog Box and Properties Sheet to update when establishing a new project

• Understand how to create an organized task list using the phases and milestones established a methodology

• Understand the importance of indenting (tasks/subtasks)

• Understand dependency types and how to establish dependencies among activities

• Understand the work formula (work = duration x units)

• Understand the fixed duration task type and how to use it

• Understand effort driven scheduling

• Understand how to assign resources

• Understand how Microsoft Project calculates the project end date

• Understand the critical path and how to manage activities on the critical path

• Understand a schedule baseline and the importance of creating it

• Understand when to change the schedule baseline

• Understand how to enter actual duration/actual work

• Understand the interaction of actual work/actual duration, remaining work/remaining duration and percentage complete

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