Develop essential skills required to utilize Microsoft Project to plan and
track Projects
Practice charting using GANTT charts
Produce reports that show cost, timing and resource workload
Optimize your project schedule
Develop essential skills required to utilize Microsoft Project to plan and
track Projects
Practice charting using GANTT charts
Produce reports that show cost, timing and resource workload
Optimize your project schedule
| LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: | A PC Lab Setting | DURATION:
| Two business days | COURSE SIZE:
| The ideal number of participants is 12 | PRE-REQUISITES:
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| Introduction to Project Management Course
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DAY ONE
Morning:
Getting Started:
Project Life Cycle
Building the Schedule:
Investigation Phase
Scheduling Methods
Working with Tasks
Task Relationships
Afternoon:
Building the Schedule: continued
Constraints
Critical Path
Calendars
Resources
Reports - basic
Detailed Schedule:
Specification Phase
Modifying the Schedule
Detail Phase
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Guidelines
Reports - detailed
DAY TWO
Morning:
Analyzing the Plan:
The Circle Process
Resource Overallocation
Optimizing the Plan
Set the Baseline
Communicating the Plan:
Reports
Gantt
Task
Resource
Cost
Afternoon:
Tracking Actual:
What to Track
How often to update the plan
Identifying problems
Making changes after the project begins
Reports:
Planned versus actuals to date
Total cost to date
Personnel days to date
Revised target dates, if changed
Project Wrap up:
Implementation Phase
Setting all Actuals
Implementation Review Phase
Planned against actual reports
Resource performance reports
Building the Real Thing:
Participants work on their own Project Schedule
COURSE CLOSURE:
Question and Answer Period
Course Evaluation
Closing Remarks
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