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Microsoft Project: Essentials

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Online + live classes
Duration
1 day · Full-time
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No formal qualification
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Overview

The perfect course for those who are self taught or have little to no experience with Microsoft Project. This is a comprehensive beginners guide to using Microsoft Project. Microsoft Project can be used by anyone who has sufficient computer skills.

Description

Objectives:This course is designed to teach you the essentials of Microsoft Project so that you can plan and manage project schedules. By the end of this course you will have a good working knowledge of the Microsoft Project basics, so that you can work confidently and efficiently to generate a plan, assign resources to tasks, track progress, manage budgets and analyse workloads.

The following topics will be covered:

Creating the Project Schedule

  • Understand Task Durations
  • Define Milestones
  • Understand and Create Task Relationships
  • Link Dependent Tasks
  • Add Tasks to the Timeline
  • Identify the Critical Path
  • Set Task Constraints and Deadlines
  • Add Recurring Tasks
  • Add Notes to a Task

Managing Resources in a Project Plan

  • Understand Resource/Types
  • Work with Resource Calendars and Availability
  • Add Resource Costs
  • Assign Resources to Tasks
  • Resolve Resource Conflicts

Creating a Project Plan

  • How to Create a New Project Plan
  • Assign a Project Calendar
  • Add Tasks to a Project Plan
  • Edit the Task List
  • Define the Activity List
  • Create the Work Breakdown Structure
  • Create Summary Stages

Finishing a Project Plan

  • Shorten a Project Using the Critical Path
  • Set a Baseline
  • Print a Project Summary Report

Managing Resources in a Project Plan

  • Understand Resource/Types
  • Work with Resource Calendars and Availability
  • Add Resource Costs
  • Assign Resources to Tasks
  • Resolve Resource Conflicts

Who is this course for?

This course is suitable for people who are self taught or have little to no experience of using Microsoft Project who wish to get more confident within the package.

Requirements

Delegates should have a good level of PC and windows skills, and a basic knowledge of MS Office. No existing knowledge of MS Project is required.

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