Microsoft Project 2010 Intermediate

This is a one-day course in which you will:

Session 1: Managing the Project and understanding project views:

• Consider how to prepare a project for analysis and tracking
• Perform Task Linking
• Create Outline Tasks
• How to work with Project Constraints and Deadlines
• Working with Resources in Project
• Perform Resource Leveling
• Learn how to customise the Gantt Chart
• What is Critical Path Analysis and how to create one
• Changing Time Scale in Project
• How to use the Formatting Tab
• Create your own new (custom) Gantt Bar
• Editing Tasks using the Gantt Chart
• Using Network Diagrams in Project
• Network Diagrams (the PERT Chart principle)
• The Network Box (or Node)
• Change how the nodes are displayed
• Adjust the diagram layout
• The Network Diagram in a combination view
• Navigating the Network Diagram
• Working with Tables
• Inserting columns
• How to remove (hide) columns
• How to modify (or edit) an existing Table using the Table Definition Dialog Box
• Creating a New Table
• Formatting tables
• Applying Filters
• Using AutoFilters
• WBS Codes and Viewing a WBS
• What is a work breakdown structure code?
• Displaying outline numbers
• Displaying the WBS column
• Why use Custom WBS Codes
• Create a custom WBS code
• How to renumber the custom WBS codes of tasks

Session 2: Examining and Updating the Project:

• Amending tasks
• Using the Task Sheet
• Using the Task Details Form
• Using the Mouse on the Gantt Chart to update task progress
• Using the Network Diagram
• Resource Usage and Task Usage views
• Team Planner
• Displaying the Critical Path
• Using Resource Leveling

Session 2 continues with: Understanding baseline and interim plans:

• Saving the first Baseline Plan
• Set another baseline
• Set an interim plan
• View project baseline information
• Compare baseline and scheduled information
• Tracking and Updating Tasks Effectively
• Quickly updating tasks as % complete
• Quickly marking tasks on track
• Quickly updating your project to a specific date
• Using the Update Task form
• Using the tracking table
• Using the Resource Usage view
• Exercise: Updating the Holiday project
• Viewing Progress Lines
• Exercise: Show the Project Progress Line
• Understanding project costs
• Rate-based costs
• Per-use costs
• Fixed costs
• Cost resources
• Exercise: Adding costs
• Creating a budget
• Viewing total resource costs
• Viewing total task costs
• Reducing project costs
• Project Deliverables
• Overview of Project Deliverables
• Creating a schedule focused on deliverables
• Project Server and Deliverable Fields

Session 3: Printing and Reporting:

• Printing project views
• Viewing and changing the print settings
• Add a header, footer, or legend to a view
• Exercise: Change the print settings
• Reports
• Editing Reports
• Visual Reports
• What You Can Print

Session 4: Multiple Projects and Resource Sharing:

• The Resource Pool
• Updating the Resource Pool
• Review and update assignments
• Update resource availability or cost information
• Stop sharing resources (temporarily)
• Stop sharing resources from a Resource Pool (permanently)
• Consolidating projects
• When to use a master project and subprojects
• Insert subprojects into a master project
• Compare Project Versions

The 1-day course can be offered on-site, or as off-site classroom training. The above price contains a discount if the delegate provides a laptop with a full version of Project 2010 installed.