Microsoft Project 2007: Introduction and Intermediate

Course Overview

Our Microsoft Project Introduction / Intermediate course is accessible for complete beginners to Microsoft Project.

This Introduction / Intermediate course enables you to use Microsoft Project as an effective tool to manage projects more efficiently. Learn the concepts and skills required to plan, track, and report project information. In this hands-on course you will enter a project plan, analyze the plan and track progress.

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• Microsoft Project 2007: Introduction for Beginners (2 day)
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• Microsoft Project 2007: Advanced (2 days)
• Microsoft Project 2007: Introduction
• Microsoft Project 2007/2010: Introduction
• Microsoft Project 2007/2010: Level 2

Audience

This course is designed for a person who has an understanding of project management concepts, who is responsible for creating and modifying project plans, and who needs a tool to manage these project plans.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Outline

Introduction to MS Project

• Basic project management concepts
• Project environment overview
• Navigation
• Getting Help

Task creation and scheduling

• Creating a task list
• Modifying a task list
• Change Highlighting
• Multi-Level undo
• Structuring tasks to create an outline
• Create the Work Breakdown Structure
• Customising WBS codes

Scheduling Tasks

• Working with base calendars
• Named calendar exceptions
• Recurring exceptions and work weeks
• Types of task relationship
• Using lag and lead times
• Recurring tasks
• Setting constraints
• Setting deadlines
• Using the critical path
• Task Drivers

Using task views

• Using calendar view
• Using network diagram view

Formatting and Sharing information

• Project Properties
• Adding notes & hyperlinks
• Copy / paste tasks and rows
• Formatting Bars and the Gantt area
• Formatting for printing
• Using Background highlighting
• Working with built-in reports
• Using, modifying and creating visual reports

Managing Resources and Costs

• Creating work & material resources
• Working with multiple calendars
• Assigning resources
• Effort Driven Scheduling
• Task Types
• Working with resource costs and fixed costs
• Work contours
• Assigning multiple arbitrary costs to tasks
• Identifying budget variance

Finalising the Plan

• Reviewing the schedule
• Levelling resource over-allocation

Tracking

• Creating baselines
• Entering project progress
• Viewing variance information

Analyse and adjust a schedule

• Analysing schedules
• Reschedule the project
• Adjustment of resource schedules
• Progress lines

Filters and sort

• Working with auto filters
• Applying built-in filters
• Sorting and grouping data

Manage multiple projects

• Consolidating and sharing projects
• Resource pools: Sharing resources across projects
• Levelling and reporting across multiple projects

Exchange project data

• Import, export and copy data from
• Microsoft Excel