Microsoft® Project 2003 provides knowledge workers with the flexibility to collaboratively plan and track projects to a successful completion.
MS Project helps you establish a good foundation in complex project management skills. With projects becoming increasingly intricate and challenging, effective project management is essential for achieving successful outcomes. This two-day introductory course builds your understanding of the significance an relationship among all phases in the project cycle—from defining, planning and managing to closing.
Effective Management
Achieving successful outcomes requires successful navigation and closure of each phase. Day one focuses on the basics of managing tasks and using resources. Day two covers tracking and monitoring as well as sharing and finalizing project information. If you actively manage big projects or want to step up your skills to the next level, MS Project prepares you to meet the challenge.
Course content
The Skills for Major League Projects
- Organize a plan
- Schedule tasks
- Assign resources and costs
- Accommodate constraints
- Monitor actual performance
- Handle contingencies
- Prepare reports
- Manage project communications
Using Resources
- Make adjustments to tasks
- Outline tasks
- Work with views, resources and calendars
- Adjust resources
- Assign costs
- Work with the critical path
Tracking, Sharing and Finalizing
- Work with baselines
- Track your progress
- Work with earned value
- Create reports
- Finalize a project
- Work with multiple projects
- Work with resource pools
- Review workgroup and web basics
- Import and export data
Prerequisite: Understanding Windows