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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
Introduction
Course Information
Duration: Two-Day Course
Platform: Windows only
Fee: $595 CDN (+GST)
This class is limited to eight people.
Course Overview
This course enables you to use Microsoft Project as an effective tool to manage projects more efficiently. Learn the concepts and skills required to plan, track, and report project information. In this hands-on course you will enter a project plan, analyze the plan and track progress.
Course Content
- Overview of Project Management and the use of Microsoft Project as a planning tool
- Entering basic and overall project information: setting project preferences, setting the project calendar to reflect holidays and your corporate workdays
- Entering/organizing summary tasks, subtasks and milestones in a project outline
- Editing task information by cutting, copying, pasting and deleting tasks
- Entering the task duration
- Understanding the difference between task duration and resource work
- Setting task dependencies
- Assigning resources to tasks
- Entering resource and material cost data
- Using views and tables to analyze the critical path, slack time, and project delay schedule and applying this information to shorten the schedule, solve resource conflicts and reduce the project cost
- Creating custom tables to view select data
- Using the Microsoft Project filters to view subsets of project information
- Creating custom filters to display specific tasks/resources for tables and reports
- Using the Gantt Chart Wizard to format your project and then print the project information you want
- Tracking the project progress by saving a baseline plan and entering actual data
- Using the predefined Microsoft Project Reports
- Sharing custom objects created for one project with another
Calendar Dates:
Jul 3/4, 2008
Aug 12/13, 2008
Aug 13/14, 2008
Sep 15/16, 2008
Oct 22/23, 2008
Nov 17/18, 2008
Dec 16/17, 2008
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