MS Project Creating a Project - Level 1

MS Project Creating a Project - Level 1

Structure:
PC for every delegate.
All pass training courses involve extensive hands-on activity including exercises that give participants practical experience of using Project's tools.

Project management concepts

• Starting Project
  
  
  
• Project opening screen
  
  
  
• What is project management?
  
  
  
• What is a project?
  
  
  
• Project objectives
  
  
  
• Project methodologies
  
  
  
• Project Map
  
  
  
• Outlining
  
  
  
• Work breakdown structure
  
  
  
• Planning lifecycle
  
  
  Getting started with Project
  
  
  
  
• Gantt Chart view
  
  
  
• Menus o Shortcut menus
  
  
  
• Toolbars
  
  
  
• Opening a project file
  
  
  
• Using the Gantt Chart view
  
  
  
• Outline numbers and WBS codes
  
  
  
• Task information form
  
  
  
• Tables
  
  
  
• System options
  
  
  Starting a new project
  
  
  
• Overview of project planning o Project dialogue box
  
  
  
• File properties dialogue box
  
  
  
• Calendars
  
  
  
• Outlining the plan
  
  
  
• Moving tasks
  
  
  
• Creating a summary task
  
  
  
• Task notes
  
  
  
• Saving the project
  
  
  
• Outlining and editing techniques
  
  Scheduling with dates
  
  
  
• Using Save As
  
  
  
• Entering dates
  
  
  
• Removing date constraints
  
  
  Estimating timescales
  
  
  
• Entering durations
  
  
  
• Formatting timescales
  
  
  
• Scheduling a date constraint
  
  
  
• The constraint dates table
  
  
  
• Deadlines
  
  
  Scheduling with dependencies
  
  
  
• Critical path analysis
  
  
  
• Gantt Chart view
  
  
  
• Total and free slack
  
  
  
• Types of dependency
  
  
  
• Entering dependencies
  
  
  
• Editing dependency links
  
  
  
• Displaying the project summary task
  
  Scheduling issues
  
  
  
• Scheduling to deadlines and constraints
  
  
  
• Reviewing the critical path
  
  
  
• Creating recurring tasks
  
  
  
• Splitting tasks
  
  
  Assigning resources
  
  
  
• What is resource scheduling?
  
  
  
• Using the resource sheet
  
  
  
• Using resource information
  
  
  
• Basic resource assignments
  
  
  
• Auto Filters
  
  
  
• Part-time resource assignments
  
  
  
• Multiple assignments on tasks
  
  
  
• Assignments for summary tasks
  
  
  Publishing views and reports
  
  
  
  
• Printing the Gantt Chart view
  
  
  
• Controlling multiple pages
  
  
  
• Headers, footers and legends
  
  
  
• Print dialogue box
  
  
  
• Printing reports
  
  
  
• Custom reports
  
  
  
• Printing task notes with Gantt Charts
  
  
  
• Publishing and viewing HTML documents
  
  
  Managing changes
  
  
  
• Baselining the plan
  
  
  
• How Autolinking affects changes
  
  
  
• Changing the current date
  
  
  
• Entering percent complete
  
  
  
• Rescheduling outstanding work