Course overview

Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours)

Our Project – Advanced Planning and Control course looks at advanced planning and resourcing techniques in Microsoft Project and how to customise your schedule to give better visibility and flexibility.

The course is designed for experienced users of Project who have attended our Project Planning and Control introduction course or have equivalent knowledge.  You must be confident using Project to build and resource schedules and create task dependencies.

Objectives 

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Work with different types of task
• Amend resource load on a task
• Work with multiple resource rates
• Create custom tables
• Add custom fields
• Create calculated fields
• Add drop down lists in fields
• Filter and extract information
• Create new views
• Export information

Content

Advanced planning techniques  

• Splitting tasks
• Task types
• Spreading work across activities

Advanced resourcing techniques  

• Resource types
• Assignment views
• Effective dates
• Work contours
• Overtime work
• Using multiple resource rates

Creating custom tables  

• Customising tables
• Adding fields

Creating custom fields

• Adding text, number, date and time fields
• Using flag fields
• Defining pick lists
• Renaming custom fields

Creating calculated fields  

• Creating formulas
• Using graphical indicators

Uploading and tracking progress  

• Completing work
• Completing work per resource
• Updating tasks
• Updating the project
• Working with the status date
• Rescheduling work
• Viewing baseline against schedule
• Project overview statistics

Working with filters  

• Building standard filters
• Building interactive filters
• Task and resource filters
• Using highlight filters

Creating custom views  

• Creating customised views
• Customising text styles
• Using grouping techniques

Exporting information  

• Exporting to Excel

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