Intended audience

a) Business Analysts
b) Project Managers
c) Project Assistants
d) Project Schedulers
e) Program Managers
f) Project Portfolio Managers
g) Anyone who wants to succeed with Microsoft Project
h) Anyone who wants to be good at scheduling

Prerequisites:

a. A copy of MS Project installed (30 days Free Trial version can be used)
b. Basic proficiency with Windows UI
c. Some familiarity with MS Office will make things even easier – but not absolutely required

What you will gain from this course:

a. THIS IS NOT A “This feature does this”, “This function enables this” COURSE. YOU WILL LEARN STEP BY STEP CREATION OF A PROJECT PLAN THROUGH REAL PROJECT EXAMPLES.
b. Includes quizzes, exercise files, demo files and certificate of completion
c. Learn Project Management needed to use Microsoft Project
d. Get prompt answer & support from the instructor
e. Learn what you should have before creating your project plan in MS Project
f. Earn 8 PDUs if you are a PMP already
g. Earn 8 Contact Hours if you are a PMP candidate

Topics:

a. What are Tasks?
b. What are Resources?
c. What are Allocations?
d. What are Task Dependencies?
e. What is a Schedule?
f. The Basics – Project Start Date, Simple Options
g. Managing Calendars
h. What are Views?
i. The Gantt Chart View
j. How to add manually scheduled tasks (difference between automated scheduling and manual scheduling)
k. Work Breakdown Structure – WBS
l. Resource scheduling and the calculations that MS Project makes when you assign one or more resources to a task.
m. Task Dependencies – FS, FF, SS, SF –
n. What are summary tasks (Summary tasks summarize the data of their subtasks, which are the tasks that are grouped beneath them)
o. Milestones
p. Importing project data from Excel
q. Creating recurring tasks
r. Tasks formatting for presenting to different levels of management
s. Coming up with a complete MS project plan
t. Team Planner View – and OVERALLOCATIONS
u. Basics of Baselines
v. How to Create a Baseline
w. How to track progress of your project and track variances (in schedule, and cost)
x. Handling resource allocations
y. Leads and Lags
z. Dates constraints and flexibility
aa. Resource Management
i. Types of Resources
ii. Managing Work Resources
iii. Using Material Resources
iv. Using Cost Resources
v. Understanding Costing Concepts
bb. Effort Driven Scheduling
cc. Critical Path determination
dd. EVM calculations (Earned Value Management)