Microsoft Project MasterclassThis workshop is aimed at existing users who also have a clear understanding of project management theory.
Objectives
Attendance on this workshop will enable delegates to:
- Consolidate their existing knowledge of MS Project
- Explore & Understand multi-project facilities
- Understand the customization potential of MS Project
- Understand how Project Central (collaboration) could be integrated.
Format
The course will be delivered using demonstration and exercises.
Content
What are "the basics"?
- What is a project?
- Work Breakdown Structures
- Critical Path Method (links and durations)
- Handling key dates and calendars
- Resources - assigning and details
- Costing the project
- Working within constraints (time, money and resources)
- The Baseline
- Simple tracking
- Simple reporting/publishing.
What's next?
- Handling multiple projects
- The Overview project
- Inter project links
- Resource sharing (pools)
- Best practice.
Adding finesse to The Basics
- Linking other documents to the project
- Better dependencies
- Costing in more detail
- Risk Analysis in Project
- More advanced schedule refinement (How to get the plan to fit reality)
- Better tracking (better control).
Customising Project
- Changing Gantt charts and other views
- Calculated fields
- Creating new Filters and Tables
- Custom Reports
- Templates
- The Global Template.
Collaboration (workgroups)
- Publishing to Project Central
- Working with Project Central (Server)
- Portfolios, Documents, Issues and Risks.
Workshop session
- Questions, issues and problems session.
The following course is available through NES AIM Academy:
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