March 7, 2012
March 9, 2012 - Sold Out
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
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