MS Project - Introduction

Course details

This course is designed for inpiduals who want to use Microsoft Office Project Professional. The topics in this course cover the critical skills necessary to create and modify a project plan file that contains tasks, resources, and resource assignments.

Learning Outcomes

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

• Understand the concepts of project scheduling and management, the project lifecycle, triple constraints and explanation of terms.
• Understand MS Project screen and default view (Gantt Chart)
• Create a project – specifying ‘Schedule From’ date, entering tasks, recurring tasks and milestones
• Define task relationships, specifying lead and lag time
• Save a project – definition of the project baseline
• Navigate through a project – editing tasks using task information, entering constraints, assigning notes, attaching documents and drawings to Tasks
• Understand the concept and development of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Create summary tasks – outlining the project based on a WBS
• Create resource sheets, assigning resources: - use of standard and resource calendars, creating new/group calendars

Course Programme

• Description of Project Views, applying Views
• Using Dual Pane Views for Project Management
• Applying Filters to Views
• Formatting Text and Views, use of Gantt Chart Wizard
• Print Set-up, printing Views
• Printing Calendars and Project Reports