MS Project 2010

Course details

From meeting crucial deadlines to selecting the right resources and empowering your teams, Microsoft Project Professional 2010 helps project management professionals by offering easier and more intuitive experiences to be more productive and realize amazing results. Work more efficiently with the simple and intuitive Microsoft Fluent user interface—new graphical menus and a familiar experience provide the tools you need to plan and manage your project.

Introduction to Project Management

• Importance of Planning a Project
• Concept of scheduling & Scheduling methods
• Critical Tasks, Non Critical Tasks & Critical Path
• Importance of monitoring and control

MS Project Basics

• Starting Ms Project
• Elements of default view
• Views and Tables
• The tracking Gantt chart view

Understanding Calendars

• Creating a new Base Calendar
• Edit a Calendar
• Assign a Calendar to a Project

Tasks and Tasks Linkages

• Entering Tasks and Task duration
• Creating a logical sequence
• Lags and Leads
• Identifying Linkages on Gantt chart

Resource Management

• Define Resources
• Resource Sheet and Graph
• Allocate Resources
• Resource leveling

Planned Time Scale (Baselines)

• Creating Baselines
• Set and Clear a Baseline

Implementation and Tracking

• Using Gantt Charts
• Sorting, Filtering and Grouping
• Updating Task and Project Data
• Slippage

Printing and Reporting

• Page setup and Report setup