Microsoft® Project 2007: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction
Making Project delivery seamless, more efficient and effective.
Course Overview
Microsoft Office Project 2007 is a project management tool with the right blend of usability, power, and flexibility: project managers/project team members must work within tight schedules, manage resources across the organisation and deliver results on time and within budget. Microsoft Project is a powerful tool to help you break a project down into manageable parts, identify potential bottlenecks and keep your project on track.
In this hands-on, two (2) day course, you learn how to solve typical project and business problems using the planning, controlling and reporting features of Microsoft Project.
Training Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Plan, build and manage project schedules and budgets using Microsoft Project Professional
- Build a project plan, enter tasks and develop calendars
- Establish task constraints and deadlines, and create task dependencies
- Creating and Assigning, Managing, Forecasting human and material resources
- Track progress, update plans and monitor variances between target and actual project deliverables
- Create dynamic reports and custom views to communicate project information
- Understand real-world issues such as managing multiple projects, sharing of resources, and the efficient use of the software within large and small organizations.
Who Should Attend
- Project Managers, Project administrators and team members
- Individuals using Microsoft Project to plan and manage new projects, and those who require enough knowledge to understand its capabilities and to access previously defined project data.
- Using (or perhaps exploring) the software without the benefit of having been formally trained.
Prerequisite
A fundamental Project Management Course- Familiarity with project management terminology such as tasks, resources and critical path is helpful.
Course Agenda
Hands-on exercises provide you with practical experience using Microsoft Project and include:
- Customising the user interface
- Creating project plans and templates
- Defining activities, costs, risks and overall project scope
- Assigning resources and resolving over-allocations
- Optimising & fine-tuning project plans to finish on time
- Tracking & recording progress and responding to updates
- Gauging project performance and identifying problems
- Placing tasks and projects back on schedule
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