MS Project - Intermediate

Course details

In the Microsoft Project Introduction course, delegates used project management skills to create a project plan. This course will build upon that knowledge and give you the opportunity to work with a project plan once it has entered the project implementation phase.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this training course, delegates should be able to:

• Sort and find tasks and resources
• Apply task and resource tables
• Customise tables and fields
• Develop ‘Traffic Light/RAG’ reports in the Gantt Chart
• Set task and resource filters
• Work with resource scheduling – shortening/changing the schedule
• Understand the work formula, effort driven scheduling
• Find over-allocated resources and how to resolve
• Resolve conflicts – working with slack time
• Use MS Project resource levelling
• Assign resource rate changes and costs, fixed costs
• Save with a baseline
• Change the schedule – viewing project statistics
• Track progress
• Update tasks / project manually and ‘as scheduled’
• Track actual cost and actual work

Course Programme

• Create a Project Plan Template
• Create a Custom Combination View
• Make Custom Views Available to Other Project Plans
• Share Resources
• Create a Master Project Plan