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Course Outline

Introduction

  • Definition of the project.
  • Key principles of project development
  • The triple constraint model

Getting Started

  • Installing the application
  • Features of Microsoft Project
  • Help and support
  • Saving, opening, and searching for projects
  • Basic views

Scheduling

  • Scheduling rules
  • Types of schedules
  • Project calendars
  • Entering tasks into the schedule
  • Editing tasks in the schedule
  • Task duration
  • Continuous time tasks
  • Estimated time for tasks
  • Priority levels for projects and tasks
  • Task dependencies (correlations)
  • Leads and lags
  • Milestones
  • Visualizing tasks in different views

Optimizing the Schedule

  • Task constraints
  • Deadlines
  • Critical tasks
  • Critical path
  • Slack time in the project
  • Shortening the critical path
  • Customizing views

Resources

  • Definition of resources
  • Variable resource costs
  • One-time material costs
  • Rate tables
  • Resource availability
  • Work definitions
  • Constants in the work equation
  • Labor input
  • Resource assignment
  • Overallocated resources
  • Resource leveling

Costs

  • Fixed costs
  • Cost control
  • Costs associated with projects, tasks, resources, and work

Project Execution

  • Methods of project implementation
  • Baselines
  • Status analysis
  • Analyzing deviations
  • Managing changes in the project

Reports

  • Reports in Microsoft Project
  • Creating custom reports

Data Analysis

  • Sorting data
  • Filters
  • Grouping data

Earned Value Analysis

Requirements

Basic knowledge of MS Office.

 14 Hours

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