For MS Project training to be effective it needs to be integrated, applied, and enjoyable. By guiding participants through the construction and use of both sample and actual projects (from your workplace), we have found our training to be both productive, and well received. Other courses may show you how to find the product features – our course teaches you how use the features to produce meaningful results.
Who should take this MS Project Best Practices 102 course?
This course is for anyone who intends to be involved in planning and/or controlling projects using Microsoft Project. (We have courses available for all versions of Microsoft Project.)
How does it work for live online MS Project training?
Students log into two web conferencing platforms using either two screens and/or two devices (e.g. PC and phone). This allows the instructor to see the students’ screens as they work in MS Project, and the students to see both the live instructor and the presentation while working in Microsoft Project. Hard-copy manuals and texts are sent to you ahead of time.
Course Objectives
- By the end of this MS Project training course you will be able to:
- Create work, material, and cost resources
- Create resource calendars
- Assign work, material, and cost resources
- Understand effort-drive scheduling
- Utilize task types and understand their impact on schedule calculations
- Create task calendars
- Assign fixed costs to tasks
- Set up recurring tasks
- Analyze over-allocated resources
- Perform resource leveling – both automatic and manual
- Utilize advanced reporting features
Prerequisites: Microsoft Project Best Practices 101
Course Content:
- Setting up work resources
- Creating resource calendars
- Assigning work resources
- Work calculations
- Task types and their affect on schedules
- Effort-driven scheduling and smart tags
- Creating and assigning cost resources
- Task calendars
- Fixed costs
- Recurring tasks
- Material resources
- Over-allocated resources and resource leveling
- Advanced reporting
- Creating a lookup table
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.
