Project Training Courses All Levels – Online or Face to Face

Duration: 1 Day

Course Objective:

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Course Contents:

Getting Started

  • Introduction to MS Project
  • Project terminology
  • What is the Critical path
  • Uses of baselines

The Basics

  • Open/Closing a Project Plan
  • Navigating the Project window
  • Working with the Ribbon
  • Backstage view
  • Tell me
  • Zoom Slider

Creating a Project

  • Set the project start date
  • Working with the project’s calendar(s)
  • Entering Non-working time
  • Project properties
  • Saving a project

Entering & Editing Tasks

  • Understanding & specifying the task mode (manually or auto-scheduled)
  • Adding auto-scheduled/manual tasks
  • Entering task durations
  • Visual Highlight
  • Adding milestones
  • Reordering tasks
  • Creating Summary Tasks
  • Outline numbers & Project summary task 
  • Task Priorities and Task notes
  • Inactive tasks

Linking Tasks

  • Understanding the types of links (relationships) between tasks
  • Linking Tasks
  • Modifying task relationships
  • Entering lead and lag times
  • Split tasks
  • Difference between deadlines and constraints
  • Set a deadline
  • Set a constraint and types of constraints

Resourcing the Project Plan

  • Introducing the types of resources
  • Adding resources
  • Modifying the resource types
  • Assigning resources to tasks

Additional Resource Techniques

  • Resource over-allocations
  • Viewing resource assignments and finding over-allocations
  • Task inspector
  • Resource levelling
  • Viewing the project critical path
  • Introduction to the Team planner

Setting a Baseline

Introduction to Tracking

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