Course overview

Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours)

Our Project Planning and Control course gives you the essential skills to use Microsoft Project to build, resource and monitor project schedules. It looks at initial setup, building plans, using a work breakdown structure and managing resources through to baselining and progressing your schedule.

This course is designed for new or existing users of Microsoft Project, and no previous experience of Project is required. Knowledge of planning techniques would be an advantage.

Objectives 

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

• Create project schedules
• Build a Work Breakdown Structure
• Create relationships
• Set baselines
• Manage resources
• Set deadlines and task properties
• Print and report on your project
• Update and track project schedules

Content

Creating a new project  

• Project defaults
• Project start date
• Setting default hours per day/week
• Setting daily working times
• Project timeline

Building a project  

• Creating a work breakdown structure
• Adding tasks and durations
• Estimated durations
• Setting milestones
• Recurring tasks

Linking, Baselining and Resourcing  

• Setting start dates and dependencies
• Task Inspector
• Resourcing
• Assigning resources
• Filtering available resources
• Baseline
• Setting a baseline
• Removing a baseline

Managing resources

• Resource properties
• Dealing with over allocations

Tasking information  

• Constraint dates
• Setting deadline
• Assigning task specific calendars
• Task types

Updating your project  

• Completing work
• Completing work per resource
• Updating tasks
• Updating the project
• Rescheduling work
• Change highlighting

Printing and reporting  

• Setup and Printing
• Visual reports
• Using the Timeline
• Creating Dashboard reports

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