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Microsoft Project Training - Intermediate
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Application Overview:
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project is project management software.
It gives you robust project management tools with the right blend of usability, power, and flexibility, so you can manage projects more efficiently and effectively. You can stay informed and control project work, schedules, and finances, keep project teams aligned, and be more productive through integration with familiar Microsoft Office system programs, powerful reporting, guided planning, and flexible tools.
Using Microsoft Project, determine the project goals and define the tasks. Next, add information about the sequence, duration, and relationships of the tasks. Then, assign people, equipment, resources and costs to the tasks. As you enter all of the information, Microsoft Project is calculating the project schedule.
Once the schedule has been determined, you can add, delete, or change any task information and Microsoft Project will recalculate the schedule to reflect the new data.
Users:
Admin, Creative, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Marketing and IT Professionals as well as anyone who needs create, track, update, publish and distribute tasks for a given project.
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Microsoft Project
Intermediate
Course Information
Duration: Two-Day Course
Platform: Windows only
Fee: $595 CDN (+GST)
This class is limited to eight people.
Course Overview
In this course you will learn how to use Microsoft Project to manage schedules and
resources over multiple projects. You will also learn how to access the appropriate project
data required for a report and then print, or export it to another application. You will cover
how to create custom views, tables, filters, and fields, how to split tasks, create recurring
tasks, set task deadline dates and create custom task calendars. There is a review of some
of the key topics covered in the Introduction course.
Recommended perquisite:
Introduction to Microsoft Project
Course Content
- Review of key topics covered in the introductory course: assigning task relationships, effort driven scheduling, setting the project calendar and a few others
- Shortcuts for assigning task relationships on the Gantt chart
- Customize how projects are viewed by creating custom tables, filters and views
- Create custom fields, indicator fields and formula fields
- Share a resource pool with several projects, analyze resources in multiple projects using a shared resource pool and resolving resource conflicts over multiple projects
- Linking a task from one project to another; editing and viewing project links
- Formatting and printing techniques for printing project views including the Gantt chart, Pert chart and Calendar views
- Printing project reports, report availability, report formatting and customising
- Working with Microsoft Project tasks: assigning deadline dates & constraint dates, splitting tasks, creating task calendars and adding recurring tasks
- Resource scheduling: making a material resource use variable consumption
- Change the date format in a table or an entire project plan
- Using the Task Details form (lower pane to replace Task Form View) to view detailed task information
- Scheduling Options and Task constraints
- Exporting and importing data to and from Excel
- Adjusting project dates with assigned date constraints
Calendar Dates:
Mar 3/4, 2010
Jun 1/2, 2010
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