Microsoft Introduction to MS Project 2021 - eLearning

390,00 EUR

12 hours

eLearning

New to Microsoft Project? Our new e-learning will guide you through the basics to help you maximize your ability to utilize Microsoft Project to its full potential. This hands-on course provides practical experience using Microsoft Projects. The course is designed for users with no prior knowledge of Microsoft Projects. You will learn how to customize and schedule tasks and resources, optimize projects through planning, track and analyze project progress and create customized reports.

Course timeline

Project and Terms
Lesson 01
- Brief overview of how the Microsoft
- project relates to project management
- Microsoft terminology
Creating Project and Resource Calendars
Lesson 02
- Set the default working hours & week
- Alter hours of the working day
- Set additional non-working days, i.e., bank holidays
- Applying a calendar to a project
- Create a new project calendar
- Create a new resource calendar and assign to resources
Entering Tasks
Lesson 03
- Enter tasks, set durations, and create milestones
- Manual vs. automatic scheduling
- Task information dialog
- Create summary tasks
- Create project tasks
- Using the outline tools
- Add notes
Tasks Relationships and Critical Path
Lesson 04
- Finish to Start, Start to Finish, Finish to Finish and Start to Start
- Theory of Critical Path
- Showing the critical path
- Slack time
- Creating lead and lag time
Variance
Lesson 05
- Setting a baseline
- Setting multiple baselines
- Measuring variance against baselines using the Gantt chart
- Modifying the variance table to measure the required variance on the project
Task Constraints & Task Management
Lesson 06
- General (default) constraints
- Hard constraints
- Soft constraints
- Deadlines
- Remove deadlines/constraints
- Scheduling project from the start date
- Scheduling project from finish date
- Fixed duration vs fixed units
- Create and assign task calendars
Project Costing
Lesson 07
- Resource costs
- Duration driven
- Show project statistics for project cost and duration
- Show cost table (Gantt view)
- Identify over allocations
- Deal with over-allocations
Tracking
Lesson 08
- Setting a baseline
- Clearing a baseline
- Marking tasks % complete
- Using the tracking Gantt to spot slippage
- Inactivate tasks
- Reschedule workload
- Measure tasks using the project status
- Splitting tasks
Sorting, Grouping & Filtering
Lesson 09
- Sorting tasks by non-default sort order
- Apply grouping levels
- Use the auto filter
- Use In-built filters for filtering tasks
Reporting
Lesson 10
- Customize project dashboards to measure required information
- Project Overview
- Late tasks
- Milestones
- Tasks by resources
Timeline
Lesson 11
- View the timeline
- Add tasks to the timeline
- Export to word/PowerPoint

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this Microsoft Introduction to MS Project 2021 - eLearning Course, you will be able to:

Customize and Schedule Tasks and Resources

Optimize Projects through Planning

Track and Analyze Project Progress

Create Customized Reports

Duration

The eLearning is expected tot take about 10-12 hours

12 months of acces to Introduction to Microsoft Project eLearning

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