Microsoft Project Level 1

Microsoft Project Level 1 – Course Outline

 

 

About This Course

You need to gather information about the various tasks involved, resources required to accomplish the tasks and the overall cost in order to plan a project.  Microsoft Office Project Professional acts as a tool that assists you in managing your projects.  In this course, you will create and modify a project plan.  Once the plan is created, you will set a baseline, track project actuals and report against the plan using Microsoft Project.

 

Target Audience

This course is designed for a person who has an understanding of project management concepts, who is responsible for creating and modifying project plans, and who needs a tool to manage these project plans.

 

• An understanding of project management concepts

• Knowledge of a Windows operating system

 

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

 

• Identify the components of the Microsoft Project environment

• Use views to work with a project plan

• Create a new project plan

• Create the project schedule

• Manage resources in a project plan

• Finalise a project plan

• Track progress

• View and report project plan information

 

Course Content

 

Unit 1 - Getting Started with Microsoft Project

• Introduction to Microsoft Project 2016

• Explore the Microsoft Project 2016 Environment

• Display an Existing Project Plan in different Views

 

Unit 2 - Creating a Project Plan

• Create a New Microsoft Project Plan

• Setting Project Working Time

• Project Information

• Create Summary Stages or Phases

• Editing the Task List

• Defining the Activity List

• Creating and Applying Task Calendars

• Creating the Work Breakdown Structure

 

Unit 3 - Creating the Project Schedule

• Task Durations

• Defining Milestones

• Manual Scheduling and Finish to Start Relationships

• Automatic Scheduling

• Task Relationships

• Identifying the Critical Path

• Working with Constraints and Deadlines

• Recurring Activities

• Add Notes to a Task

• Referencing Other Files in Tasks

 

Unit 4 - Managing Resources in a Project Plan

• Resource Types

• Working with Resource Calendars and Availability

• Adding Resource Costs

• Assigning Resources to Tasks

• Effort Driven Scheduling

• Resolve Resource Overallocation

 

Unit 5 - Introduction to Project Tracking

• Setting a Project Baseline

• Overview of Entering Actuals

• Overview of Project Progress in a Project Plan

 

Unit 6 - Viewing and Reporting Project Detail

• Adding Stages to the Timeline

• Filter, Group and Highlight Project Information

• Printing Views

• Using Standard Reports in Microsoft Project

 

 

Course duration: one day

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