Classroom
Beginner
1 day
English
This one-day instructor-led course is intended for Microsoft Project users that need to manage a schedule but will NOT be managing cost within Project. By focusing only on the SCHEDULING capabilities of Project, this course dramatically simplifies this powerful application, thus the name: Tame Microsoft Project!
In addition to the student manual, this course uses a Project Template (.mpp) and additional tabs to the Ribbon, both of which simplify the interface for the user.
● There are no pre-requisites for this class.
This course is intended for Project users who need to use Microsoft Project to create schedules with clear task responsibility and to regularly update those plans with schedule progress information, but who DO NOT use the cost management or resource allocation views of Microsoft Project. The audience for this course could be people managing large or small projects, part-time teams or dedicated teams, and people who are new to Project.
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After completing this course, students will be able to:
Introduction to Microsoft Project
This module explains how Microsoft Project reinforces project management best practices and provides an introduction to the User Interface (UI) and the custom Ribbon that is a key component in this course.
Lessons
After completing this module, students will be able to:
A Quick and Easy Overview of Managing with Project
This module demonstrates the major steps of managing a project using Microsoft Project. Students will create a new project plan, establish a baseline, and track progress. This module provides a brief experience with many features of Project without delving into detailed explanations in order to provide students the an overall understanding the purpose of Project and how it is used.
Lessons
Lab : Creating a Basic Project from the Tame Template
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Setting up a Project
This module explains how to begin a new project using the Tame Template. The Tame Template is pre-configured to make entering tasks easy and it includes custom views for updating a project once the work begins. Starting a new project also includes configuring the Project Calendar to reflect the work schedule of the team.
Lessons
Lab : Enter Project Information
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Creating a work Breakdown Structure
This module offers best practices for breaking a project into manageable tasks and describes the features in Project related to managing this list of tasks.
Lessons
Lab : Manipulate a WBS
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Identifying Task Relationships
This module explains the foundation of building a project schedule: establishing sequence relationships between project tasks.
Lessons
Lab : Display the Sequence
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Defining resources within Project
This module explains how to add specific or generic resources to a Microsoft Project plan. Adding resources makes it easy to establish specific responsibility for all the work in the project.
Lessons
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Making Detailed Task Estimates
This module explains how to estimate the duration for a task and to assign the estimate and one or more resources to a task. Project uses three “Task Types” and each will be described, although Tame Microsoft Project! only recommends using the Fixed Duration task type.
Lessons
Lab : Assign Duration and Resources
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Creating an Intial Schedule
This module explains some key scheduling terms: critical path, float, and milestones. It shows the power of allowing Project to calculate a schedule and discusses the appropriate times to use Manual schedule calculation.
Lessons
Lab : Calculating an Initial Schedule
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Manually Schedule vs. Auto schedule
This module explains the Manual vs. Auto schedule option in Project. Project’s powerful schedule engine has many benefits, but there are also circumstances where it is better NOT to let Project calculate the schedule. This presents the guidelines for making that choice.
Lessons
Lab : Experiment with Manually Scheduled Tasks
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Managing the Project
This module explains the principles of updating a project schedule when the project is under way, and how to use a custom Tame Tracker table to easily update the most important schedule information.
Lessons
Lab : The Baseline
Lab : Entering Actual Progress
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Formatting Output and Printing Reports
This module explains how to leverage the Timeline and Reports to communicate with management and other project stakeholders.
Lessons
Lab : Create Reports in Project 2013
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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