About the Topic:

Explore MS Project in Project Management

Duration : 2 days (14 Contact Hours)

Training Fee: PMIK Members-5500/- and Non-Members-6500/

Audience : Lateral (This course is designed for those who have some project management knowledge, but who are new to Microsoft Project, or have preliminary knowledge of Microsoft Project)

Learning Objectives:

Gain a sound understanding of the Microsoft Project program.

Learn the use and significance of various views, tables and reports.

Develop easy to track project schedule.

Track and analyze schedule progress by different methods.

Read and review the project schedule.

Schedule developing and tracking checklists will be given to the participants. The checklists are prepared considering practical situations.

Discussion on concept of Buffer Management using MS Project

Course Topics:

Introduction

Test on Microsoft Project Quick Recap

Overview – MS Project

Basic equation of Microsoft Project (MSP)

Basic structure / User Interface of Microsoft Project

Mistakes the people make while using MSP

Reading Schedule in MS Project

Project Statistics, Auto filters & custom filters

“Viewing Work, Duration, Cost”, Task Usage view- overview

Resource Usage view overview

Sample case study and schedule reading assignment

Writing / Developing Schedule in MS Project

Flow of developing a project schedule

Gantt view & formatting

Task dependency types & significance

Use of task entry view

Task types & significance, Task Constraints

Resource sheet details & significance

Selecting resources from Resource Pool

Project & Resource Calendars

Resource Allocation, Concept of Baseline

Schedule Development assignment

Tracking / Updating Plan in MS Project

Different ways of updating the plan

‘Tracking Gantt’ view, Concept of ‘Progress Lines’

Saving interim plans – baselines

Schedule Tracking assignment

Printing from MS Project

Printing Gantt chart, Note on customization, Reports

Overview – Working with Multiple Projects

Quick overview – Using project professional for multi-project in case server is not installed

Question-Answer Session

PDUs for credential holders: 14