Instructor-led (classroom)
Intermediate
3 days
English
This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills plan and manage projects using Microsoft Project 2010. The course focuses on preparing the user to pass Microsoft Exam 70-178 Managing Projects Using Microsoft Project 2010. This course is eligible for SATV’s.
To get the most from any project management software, the user must understand the project management techniques upon which the software is based. This course presents the most popular project management software in the context of how a project manager will use it. Participants in this course learn the functions of the software and the project management concepts which make the software effective.
This presentation begins with the basic concepts and leads participants through all the functions they’ll need to plan and manage a small to medium-sized project, including how to level resources and capture both cost and schedule progress.
The course uses a combination of learning methods in teaching this course. It takes the approach of we will discuss what we are going to show the student, demonstrate to the student and have the student perform an exercise or follow the steps of the instructor in learning a new concept or feature. This course is lectured based coupled with click-alongs and labs to complete. Our goal is to maximize the time students have their fingers on the keyboard. To do this, we have traditional exercises within nearly every lesson, and “Click Along” demonstrations. Each Click-Along is indicated with a special icon in the margin of the student manual. Students should be able to follow the instructor through these demonstrations.
The labs will be noted in the syllabus as exercises to follow the nomenclature that is being used in the student manual.
There are no prerequisites for this course. However, it is helpful to have taken an introductory project management course, such as Versatile’s Principles of Project Management.
This course is intended for both novice and experienced Project Managers and projects support personnel who need to apply the discipline of project management using Microsoft® Project Professional/Standard 2010.
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After completing this course, students will be able to:
Introduction to Mastering Microsoft Project
This module provides an overview of how the features of Project relate to the job of the project manager.
Lessons
After completing this module, students will be able to:
A Quick and Easy Overview of Managing with Project
This module demonstrates the steps required to create and use Project through the life cycle of a project.
Lessons
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Setting Up a Project
This module explains how to create a new project and establish the basic constraints that Project will use for its calculations.
Lessons
Lab : Setting Up a Project
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Manually Schedule vs. Auto Schedule
This module explains how to manually schedule project tasks and how to leverage the auto schedule feature.
Lessons
Lab : Exploring Manually Schedule mode
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
This module explains how to create a useful work breakdown structure and enter it into Project.
Lessons
Lab : Manipulate a WBS
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Identifying Task Relationships
This module explains the rules for establishing dependency links between tasks and presents the features to use Project to establish and display these dependencies.
Lessons
Lab : Display the sequence
After completing this module, students will be able to: Understand the rules for establishing dependency links between tasks and be able to use Project to establish and display these dependencies.
Participants will be able to use Project to:
Defining resources within Project
This module explains how to enter resources and specific resource information in Microsoft Project and assign resources to specific tasks.
Lessons
Lab : Resource Calendar and Availability
After completing this module, students will be able to: enter resources and resource related information into Project.
Making Work Package Estimates
This module explains how Microsoft Project calculates task duration, task work (effort) and task resources. Students will be able to choose among three task types as they enter task estimates and they will know which task type is appropriate for the type of estimate they are making.
Lessons
Lab : Work, Duration and Labor
After completing this module, students will be able to: enter estimates for duration and costs for each task.
Creating an Initial Schedule
This module explains how Project calculates a schedule based on task relationships and task duration. Students will understand the purpose of identifying critical path tasks and will be able to identify schedule float within the project.
Lessons
Lab : Calculating an Initial schedule
After completing this module, students will be able to calculate float and identify a project’s critical path.
Create a Resource Leveled Schedule
This module explains how over-allocated resources create unrealistic schedules and shows methods for rescheduling in order to create a realistic schedule based on resource availability.
Lessons
Lab : Resource Leveling
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Managing the Project
This module explains how to use Project to control a project. Students will save their plan to a baseline and see how entering actual task performance data enables them to view differences between planned and actual performance. This module has 3 lab exercises to complete.
Lessons
Lab : The Baseline
Lab : Baselining and Tracking Performance
Lab : Variance
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Formatting Output and Printing Reports
This module explains how to format the many views and reports available in Project.
Lessons
Lab : Reporting: Grouping
Lab : Reporting: Using Standard and Custom reports
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Managing Multiple Projects
This module explains how to view many projects as parts of one very large project in order to gain new views on resource availability and task relationships among projects.
Lessons
Lab : Consolidation of Shared Resources
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Advanced Topics
This module explains how to leverage some of the advanced features of Project.
Lessons
Lab : Grouping
After completing this module, students will be able to take advantage of the advanced features of Project.
Summary
This module provides an overview of the topics presented in the course.
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