Microsoft® Project: A 2-Day, Hands-On Workshop
Harness the full power of MS Project to plan your projects, assign resources, and track your progress
Covers Project 2007
 Do you need to know the "ins and outs" of how to use Microsoft Project 2007?
Whether you manage single projects, oversee multiple projects, oversee multiple projects, or just manage an occasional project here and there, MS Project 2007 can help you "stay on top of it all." Sound project management is crucial to the success of any organization, large or small, yet many people don't fully understand this important business tool. And if the person at the helm lacks the skills to organize, plan, delegate, and prioritize, projects can quickly spiral out of control.
If you have not had formal project management training, are not completely familiar with all the powerful capabilities of Microsoft Project 2007, or want to experience a greater understanding of this extraordinary management system, this course will get you up to speed in just 2 days of intensive training. A hands-on, interactive approach means that you will quickly gain a solid understanding of Microsoft Project 2007. You'll be fully prepared to jump right in and put it to use as soon as you return to the office. As a result, your ability to plan, execute, and complete all types of projects will increase immeasurably!
Benefits of this program:
In this workshop, you'll discover how to:
- Take advantage of Microsoft Project's many advanced features, options, and time-saving tools
- Use templates to create overall project plans, then customize to meet an individual project's unique specifications
- Employ Microsoft Project's powerful analysis tools to identify potential conflicts, red flags, and variances — before the project even starts!
- Link information from Microsoft Excel®, Access®, Outlook®, and other software resources
- Manage multiple complex projects smoothly and efficiently with Microsoft Project 2007
Course objectives:
- Prepare a detailed project plan that addresses specific needs and concerns — and potential conflicts
- Break your project down into tasks and assign the staff, resources, and time needed to complete each one
- Use project baselines to track and manage the flow of your projects and keep tabs on their progress
- Integrate information from Word, Excel, Outlook, and the Internet into your project planning
- Use time-saving templates, scheduling and calculating tools, flow charts, and reports to manage your projects and communicate their status to others
- Develop an accurate budget (and stick to it) with Microsoft Project's cost estimate tools for staff, equipment, materials, and special resources
- Manage multiple projects, and master projects and subprojects with minimum stress and confusion
As a result of this training, you will be able to …
- Use Microsoft Project's templates, Wizards, and other planning tools like a pro
- Keep all project team members in the loop with Microsoft Project's special communication features
- Allow for Murphy's Law ("Whatever can go wrong …") and plan accordingly
- Respond to problems more quickly and effectively
Who should attend?
This course is perfect for experienced project managers who want to take advantage of all that Microsoft Project 2007 has to offer … new or inexperienced project managers who may not be aware of how to integrate this powerful program with their specific project management needs … managers, team leaders, and supervisors who find themselves responsible for managing numerous projects … anyone who wants to become more proficient in Microsoft Project 2007.
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Program Overview
Unit 1: Getting Started in Microsoft Project 2007
- Menus, toolbars, and more — discover the basic attributes of this powerful application, and learn how to navigate through it with ease
- Microsoft Project 2007: what's different and what's improved in this exciting new version
- Use Microsoft Project's built-in templates to build your project instead of starting from scratch
- Customize your project by adjusting start dates, working hours, deadlines, and more
- Set a working calendar for your project, based on Standard, Night Shift, and 24-Hour options
- Create your own template, and use it as a guideline for future projects
Unit 2: Building Your Project Plan
- What needs to be done? How to create a logical task list, organize it, schedule it, and execute it
- Create task relationships, link your tasks, and let the resulting dependencies spell out your scheduling needs
- Let Microsoft Project calculate your task durations
- Set milestones and deadline reminders along the way
- Use the PERT analysis to account for the "unknowns" of your project
- Organize your ideas by using Work Breakdown Structures and Gantt charts
- Learn to create custom information fields or add fields to your project
Unit 3: Adding Resources to Your Project Plan
- Add, delete, or modify resources within your project plan
- Create and maintain a Resource Pool — what you need to know
- Import resources instantly from your Outlook e-mail program
- How Project will help you assign resources to tasks, manage costs, and manipulate workload as necessary
- The critical relationship between resources and costs
- Manage resource workflow, and stay on top of work conflicts and resource overloading
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Unit 4: Planning Project Costs
- Create cost estimates for staff, equipment, materials, and special circumstances that may crop up during the project
- Let Project help you determine exactly how much money you'll need — and when you'll need it
- Learn how project costs accrue, and find out how to set and track them automatically
- Enter fixed costs for tasks
- How Project calculates the cost of the resources you've assigned to tasks
- Customize your cost fields with a value list
Unit 5: Viewing the Project Plan
- Gantt charts, network diagrams, calendars, graphs, and forms — how to choose the most suitable viewing option
- Communicate information to others by changing or modifying views so that only pertinent material is displayed
- Learn to interpret Project's many charts and graphs like a pro
- View baseline estimates alongside your real-time plan
- Use progress lines as a visual indicator to discover whether your tasks are running late or right on schedule
Unit 6: Tracking and Managing the Project
- Baselines — what they are, why you need them, and how to set, save, and utilize their information
- Manage your project's critical path
- Adjust dependencies and modify constraints to create more time when your project is falling behind
- Use the Cost and Variance Tables to reveal variations between your project's baselines and actual activity
- Track task progress: how Project keeps you on top of tasks and continually updates their progress
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