About the Course:
Improve your MS Project skills and expertise with this 3-hour training course designed to help you take full advantage of Microsoft’s powerful project managements software. You will learn different ways to update task information to keep your project data current and accurate. Learn how easy it is to monitor your progress with tables, views, filters, sorting, and more. You will also learn how to utilize Microsoft powerful scheduling and reporting engines along with features that make it easy to work and collaborate on multiple projects together. This class is compatible with MS Project 2013/2016/2019 Desktop versions. For a review of project basics consider taking this course with MS Project Getting Started course.
In three hours, you will learn how to successfully manage MS Project
Course Objective:
Baselines and Interim Plans
Scheduling techniques
Tracking tasks
Advanced Resources
Reporting Costs
Custom Reports
Project Organizer
Master Projects
Share Resource Pool
Shortcut Keys – Most useful for Mouse and Keyboard
Who is the Target Audience:
This course is for both beginner and experienced managers, schedulers, and project stakeholders who need to integrate the discipline of project management with Microsoft Project.
Basic Knowledge:
Basic MS Project or No Experience needed.
Using Multiple Resources on a task
Painter, Policeman, Pope
Effort Driven Scheduling
Multiple Pay Rates for Same Resource
Overallocations
Team Planner
How Costs are calculated
Best practices for entering Costs
Dashboards
Tables (if not covered earlier)
Variance Reports
Earned Value Reports
Organizer
Resource Pool
Master Projects (sub-projects)