Professional Development

October 19, 2012
9 a.m. - 4 p.m. ; $359; Baldwin-Wallace, Berea
6 PDU
Instructor: Pete Evangelista

This one-day, hands-on course provides an overview of MS-Project and its functionality. Conducted in a PC Lab environment, students will get a opportunity to work with the tool while receiving support from an experienced and knowledgeable instructor/coach.  

Students will have a opportunity to develop a project schedule from scratch, get comfortable with entering information into MS-Project, then using the base schedule to understand a manage resource allocations, task assignments, and the project labor budget. MS-Project also offers a depth of reporting functionality and students will learn how to create and modify reports for their project communication needs.

Target Audience: Any project manager, program manager, or project administrator that is unfamiliar with MS-Project, needs a "refresher", or is new to MS-Project 2010.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the capabilities of MS-Project
• Enter task information
• Develop a project schedule by setting task dependencies, work efforts, resource allocations, and task assignments
• Identify and display the schedule's critical path
• Use reports to communicate the budget, resource usage and utilization

Course Outline:

• 1)    Introductions and Definitions
• 2)    Overview of MS-Project Functionality and Layout
• 3)    Setting the Project Profile
• 4)    Entering Tasks
  • a)    The Work Break Down Structure
  • b)    Exercise #1
• 5)    Entering Dependencies
  • a)    Types of dependencies
  • b)    Options
  • c)    Exercise #2
• 6)    Entering Work Effort
  • a)    Exercise #3
• 7)    Using Resources
  • a)    Setting up resources
  • b)    Applying resources to tasks
  • c)    Resource leveling
  • d)    Exercise #4
• 8)    View and Display Optimization
• 9)    Managing and Manipulating the Plan
  • a)    Tools available for analysis
  • b)    Exercise #5
• 10) Reports
• 11) Tips and Tricks
• 12) Wrap-up