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
