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Provided by: Key Consulting Using Microsoft Project to Plan and Control your ProjectsProject Management |
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Training
Provided by Key Consulting
For Microsoft Project training to be effective it needs to be integrated, applied, and enjoyable. By guiding participants through the construction and use of both sample and actual projects (from your workplace), we have found our training to be both productive, and well received.
Who should take this course?
This course is for anyone who intends to be involved in planning and/ or controlling projects using Microsoft Project.
Related Software Programs or Products: Microsoft Project
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Using Microsoft Project to Plan and Control your Projects
By the end of the course you will be able to :
- Set up your project in MS Project
- Enter tasks and resources
- Link tasks together
- Assign resources to tasks
- Look at your project data in different ways
- Setup a project baseline
- Enter project progress information
- Assign constraints and deadlines
- Understand and use different task types (e. g. fixed units)
- Establish recurring tasks, such as meetings
- Examine over-allocated resources
- Sort, group, and filter your project data
- View and report project status
- Publish basic project information online
Course Details
- Length: 16 hours.
- Style: This interactive course is built around “Step by Step Microsoft Project” by Carl Chatfield, PMP. The text is accompanied by PowerPoint presentations – participants build projects based on sample data, as well as experimenting with their own project data.
- Included : CD with sample files and 60-day fully-functional free trial of Microsoft Project.
- Format: Computer classroom.
- Prerequisites: Introduction to Project Management, or equivalent.
Course Content
- A quick project management refresher
- Moving around and viewing data
- Creating a project
- Entering task information
- Modeling your Work Breakdown Structure
- Linking tasks to create your Network Diagram
- Adding notes and hyperlinks
- Setting up resources
- Assigning resources
- Formatting and printing
- Saving a baseline
- Entering basic progress information
- Constraints and deadlines
- Changing task types
- Recurring tasks
- Over-allocated resources
- Sorting, grouping and filtering
- Viewing and reporting project status
About The Training Provider: Key Consulting
Key Consulting - Key Consulting works with and trains organizations of all sizes to improve the management of projects. With offices in Seattle, Washington and Tucson, Arizona, Key Consulting helps local businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations around the country.
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