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MS Project Basic and Advanced

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MS Project Basic and Advanced

Course code: MSBA

Duration: 3 Days

 

MS Project Basic

Prerequisite:

To ensure your success in this course, you should have basic knowledge and skills using the Microsoft® Windows® operating system—preferably the most current version. While you do not need to be an expert, some experience and competency with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Word and Excel®, will be useful. Finally, having a foundational knowledge of project management concepts will help prepare you for working with Microsoft Project. 

You can take any of the following course offerings from Logical Operations to attain the requisite knowledge and skills: 
•    Using Microsoft® Windows® 10 (Second Edition) 
•    Microsoft® Office Word: Part 1 (any current version) 
•    Microsoft® Office Excel®: Part 1 (any current version) 
•    Project Management Fundamentals (Third Edition) 

Course Description:

Welcome to Microsoft® Project® 2019/2021: Part 1. This course is designed to familiarize you with the basic features and functions of Microsoft Project so you can use it effectively and efficiently in a real-world environment. 

This course covers the critical knowledge and skills a project manager needs to create a project plan with Project during the planning phase of a project. In other words, if your supervisor assigns you to lead a project, this course will enable you to draft a project plan with Project and share it with your supervisor (and others) for review and approval.

Course Objective:

•    Identify project management concepts and navigate Microsoft Project Professional. 
•    Create a new project plan. 
•    Add tasks to a project. 
•    Manage task relationships within a project. 
•    Manage project resources. 
•    Finalize a project plan.  

Intended Audience:

This course is designed for a person with an understanding of project management concepts, as well as general desktop computer skills, and who will be responsible for creating and maintaining project plans. This course will give you the fundamental understanding of Microsoft Project necessary to construct basic project plans.

Course Outlines:

Lesson 1: Getting Started with Microsoft Project 
Topic A: Identify Project Management Concepts 
Topic B: Navigate in the Microsoft Project Desktop Environment 

Lesson 2: Defining a Project 
Topic A: Create a New Project Plan File 
Topic B: Set Project Plan Options 
Topic C: Assign a Project Calendar 

Lesson 3: Adding Project Tasks 
Topic A: Add Tasks to a Project Plan 
Topic B: Enter Task Duration Estimates 

Lesson 4: Managing Tasks 
Topic A: Create a Work Breakdown Structure 
Topic B: Define Task Relationships 
Topic C: Schedule Tasks 

Lesson 5: Managing Project Resources 
Topic A: Add Resources to a Project 
Topic B: Create a Resource Calendar 
Topic C: Enter Costs for Resources 
Topic D: Assign Resources to Tasks 
Topic E: Resolve Resource Conflicts 

Lesson 6: Finalizing a Project Plan 
Topic A: Optimize a Project Plan 
Topic B: Set a Baseline 
Topic C: Share a Project Plan 

Appendix A: Navigating in the Microsoft Project Online Environment

 

MS Project Advanced

Prerequisite:

To ensure your success in this course, you should have basic project management knowledge and skills. Additionally, you should be able to create a new project plan, manage time in a project plan, manage tasks in a project plan, manage resources in a project plan, and share a project plan using Microsoft Project. The following Logical Operations course can help you in meeting this requirement: Microsoft® Project® 2019/2021: Part 1. 

You can take any of the following course offerings from Logical Operations to attain the requisite knowledge and skills: 
•    Using Microsoft® Windows® 10 (Second Edition) 
•    Microsoft® Office Word: Part 1 (any current version) 
•    Microsoft® Office Excel®: Part 1 (any current version) 
•    Microsoft® Office PowerPoint®: Part 1 (any current version) 

Course Description:

Welcome to Microsoft® Project® 2019/2021: Part 2. This course is designed to familiarize you with some of the advanced features and functions of Microsoft Project so you can use it effectively and efficiently in a real-world environment.

In Microsoft® Project® 2019/2021: Part 1, you learned the basic features of Microsoft Project during the planning phase of a project. This course covers the advanced knowledge and skills a project manager needs to update a project plan in Project during the execution, monitoring, and controlling phases of a project. In other words, once your project plan is approved by the project sponsor, this course will enable you to manage the project so that it is completed on time, within budget, and according to scope.

Course Objective:

•    Update a project plan. 
•    Generate project views to manage a project. 
•    Create project reports to share a project's status. 
•    Reuse project plan information. 
•    Work with multiple projects. 

Intended Audience:

This course is designed for a person with an understanding of project management concepts and who is responsible for creating and maintaining project plans. Target students will be looking to acquire the advanced knowledge and skills needed to update a project plan in Microsoft Project during the execution, monitoring, and controlling phases of a project.

Course Outlines:

Lesson 1: Updating a Project Plan 
Topic A: Enter Task Progress 
Topic B: Enter Overtime Work 
Topic C: Edit Tasks 
Topic D: Update Cost Rate Tables 
Topic E: Update a Baseline 

Lesson 2: Viewing Project Progress 
Topic A: Use View Commands 
Topic B: Add a Custom Field 
Topic C: Create Custom Views 
Topic D: Format and Share the Timeline View 

Lesson 3: Reporting on Project Progress 
Topic A: View Built-in Reports 
Topic B: Create Custom Reports 
Topic C: Create a Visual Report 

Lesson 4: Reusing Project Plan Information 
Topic A: Create a Project Plan Template 
Topic B: Share Project Plan Elements with Other Plans 

Lesson 5: Working with Multiple Projects 
Topic A: Share Resources 
Topic B: Link Project Plans 

Appendix A: Exploring Project Management in the Cloud