Course Overview

Dealing with large projects can be daunting through the whole project lifecycle. In this course, Microsoft Project, you will learn foundational knowledge of defining and creating a project, resources, assignments, as well as tracking and reporting. First, you will learn how to create a work breakdown structure, link tasks and then display and print the project's Critical Path. Next, you will discover the different resource types and how these, and costs, can be assigned to the project. Finally, you will explore how to how to formally close the project and create a template from the existing schedule. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of Microsoft Project needed to use the Agile capabilities in the subscription version of Project, and how to print and communicate different aspects of the project plan using custom and pre-defined reports.

The course is peppered with best practices and examples, which will take your knowledge to the next level to make you a project superstar. Some of the major topics that we will cover include creating the task list and dependencies. Assigning resource is and costs updating on tracking the project and producing great looking project reports

Course Objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants should be able to:

• Split the view
• Sort, group, and filter tasks
• Use zoom
• Overlap, delay, or split tasks
• Set task deadlines and constraints
• Understand task types
• Assign a task calendar
• Understand task indicators
• Assign a resource calendar
• Customize a resource calendar
• Apply predefined resource contours
• Specify resource availability
• Group resources
• Enter resource rates and overtime rates
• Specify pay rates for different dates
• Apply a different pay rate to an assignment
• Use material resource consumption rates
• Entering task fixed costs
• Schedule resource overtime
• Identify and balance resource overallocation
• Save a baseline plan
• Update project, actual task values, actual work and actual costs
• View project statistics and costs
• Check duration variance, work variance, and cost variance
• Identify slipped tasks
• Save an interim plan
• Customize a basic or visual report
• Create a custom report
• Sort a report
• Inserting a subproject
• Consolidate multiple projects
• View multiple project critical paths
• View consolidated project statistics
• Create a resource pool