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Why Attend

The overall aim of this course is to train participants on the use of MS Project software and enable them to discover all its features. Additionally, participants will be able to develop project plans and calendars, customize different charts, views and tables. This Project Management course by McTimothy Associates also aims at training participants on different project related techniques such as resources assignments and leveling, tracking progress and consolidating project plans. The course relies heavily on hands-on training using Microsoft Project software. The methods used will also include a mix of interactive techniques; brief presentations by the consultant and the participants, group exercises and discussions.

Event Date: 25/04/2024 – 27/04/2024

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Overview
Course Outline

Course Methodology

The course relies heavily on hands-on training using Microsoft Project software. The methods used will also include a mix of interactive techniques; brief presentations by the consultant and the participants, group exercises and discussions.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Define projects and identify project constraints
Develop project files and calendars
Schedule tasks and entering recurring tasks
Produce resources and assign them to tasks
Identify critical path and apply resource leveling
Prepare baselines and track project progress
Design project status reports and customize charts
Create resource pools and consolidate project plans

Target Audience

Project schedulers, project planners, project coordinators, project managers, members of project office and anyone interested in project management. This course is worth 30 PDUs.

Target Competencies

Planning
Scheduling
Organizing
Executing
Controlling
Report designing

Note

This course relies on hands-on training on MS Project. Participants are expected to come with their Laptops. In addition, the book ‘Microsoft Project 2013: Step By Step’ will be distributed at the course, in hard and electronic copies.

Course Outline

Understanding projects
- Project definition
- Triple constraints
- Project management processes
- Project life cycle
Starting a new project
- Create a project file
- Setting project calendar
- Entering and manipulating new tasks
- Entering milestones
Scheduling tasks
- Establishing tasks dependencies
- Setting up task constraints
- Entering recurring tasks
- Splitting tasks
Managing resources
- Adding and entering resource capacity
- Resource calendar
- Assigning work resources to tasks
- Finding the right resources
- Effort driven scheduling
Identifying critical path and resource allocation
- Network diagram
- Critical path analysis
- Resource allocation
- Resources leveling
Tracking progress
- Saving project baseline
- Tracking project as scheduled
- Entering task completion percentage and actual values
- Rescheduling incomplete work
- Updating baseline
Organizing and formatting project details
- Sorting and grouping project details
- Filtering project details
- Customizing tables, views and Gantt charts
- Customizing and printing reports
- Viewing and reporting project status
- Spotlight report
Consolidating projects and resources
- Creating resource pool
- Linking projects to resource pool
- Consolidating project plans
- Creating dependencies between projects
- Earned value calculations