This course is intended for people who wish to learn how to schedule projects using Microsoft Project. It covers all of the essential information required to create a project schedule with emphasis placed upon real-world problems that are normally encountered in project management.
It is assumed that users have little or no knowledge of Microsoft Project.
At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- start Microsoft Project and work with it's key screen features
- use the help system in Microsoft Project 2003
- create a new project file
- understand the essentials of project management
- create tasks in a project file
- enter various durations for tasks in a project
- create relationships between tasks in a project
- create a resource pool for a project
- effectively use resource assignment in a project
- assign resources to tasks in a project
- print various aspects of a project.
Project Intermediate (all versions)
This course covers all of the essential information required to create a reasonably complex project schedule.
At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- resolve resource over allocation problems
- assign costs in a project
- assign materials in a project
- monitor a project and track its progress
- work with the predefined reports and create new custom reports
- impost constraints and deadlines on a project
- work with the various views and create custom views
- work with the various table and filter techniques
- use, create and modify project templates.
Project Advanced (all versions)
This course covers all of the essential information required to create a complex project schedule.
At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- create Web pages based on Project data
- work with multiple project files simultaneously and create workspaces
- work with linked projects
- work with shared resources where more than one project uses the same resource pool
- successfully break large project files down into more manageable chunks
- send and route project files to other members of a network workgroup
- export data from Project to other applications
- create and use macros in Project.
