Microsoft Project 2010® Fundamentals

Course details

Who Should Attend:

• Project Managers
• Project Coordinators
• Project Team Members
• PMO Support Staff

Explore Real World projects scenarios to:

• Use MS Project to initialize projects
• Use MS Project to create a task-based schedule
• Use MS Project manage resources and assignments
• Use MS Project to track and analyze your project
• Use MS Project to report and communicate project information.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Leverage Microsoft Project to plan and manage project schedules and resources
• Create tasklist, project plans and allocate resources
• Generate, manage and track resource assignments
• Easily track progress and monitor variances between targets and actuals
• Use advanced scheduling features to organise project details and ascertain project status
• Exploit tools to plan, manage and collaborate with other people and teams
• Troubleshoot scheduling problems and keep project on track
• Produce dynamic reports using the formatting and printing features available to Microsoft Project
• Share and combine data with other programmes/applications.

Part 1 Simple Scheduling

1. A guided tour of project
2. Creating a task list
3. Setting up resources
4. Assigning resources to tasks
5. Formatting and sharing your plan
6. Tracking progress on  tasks

1. Fine-tuning task details
2. Fine-tuning resource details
3. Fine-tuning assignment details
4. Fine-tuning the project plan
5. Organising project details
6. Tracking progress on tasks and assignments
7. Viewing and reporting project status
8. Getting your project back on track

1. Applying advanced formatting and printing
2. Customising project
3. Sharing project information with other programmes
4. Consolidating projects and resources.