Project Management Workshop Using Microsoft Project

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