Microsoft Project Essentials training course available throughout North East England including Newcastle, Washington, Sunderland, Darlington, Leeds and Durham

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Course Microsoft Project Essentials

Public Scheduled Price£495 +VAT
Course Duration2 Days
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Latest Reviews6

"Its a good overview of the whole programme"

G.V. Direct Rail Services, Microsoft Project Essentials

"Thank you very much - very helpful training. Great environment and lovely lunch."

S. DTV CRC, Microsoft Project Essentials

"Clear, easy to follow and was delivered at the right pace. Excellent overall - would book through this company again"

C.F. Barnardo's, Microsoft Project Essentials

Overview

This two day course is designed for individuals who will use Microsoft Project as a tool to assist them in managing projects. The topics in this course cover the critical skills necessary to create and modify a project plan file that contains tasks, resources, and resource assignments.

Prerequisites

- Delegates should have a working knowledge of Windows or they should have completed the Introduction to Windows course. Delegates should feel at ease performing tasks such as arranging, sizing, switching between windows. Previous use of a mouse is assumed on this course.

Objectives

- Set up a new project using Microsoft Project
- Enter tasks including the different durations involved
- Build a schedule containing tasks and linked tasks
- Add constraints and deadlines to a project
- Manage lag and lead times
- Add and assign resources and deal with resource over-allocation
- Set up and assign calendars to resources and tasks
- Use scheduling to control and manipulate multiple task types
- Use resource / cost / time management, including manual contouring
- Handle master projects, insert sub projects, linked or detached
- Use Project Tracking methods
- Customise The Project Environment. Customise project views, sheets, tables, forms and fields
- Print standard reports and customise reports
- Export reports to Excel and Visio

What's included

- Laptops are available for training delivered at client's premises
- Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venues
- Comprehensive course materials and exercises
- Telephone and Email Support

Course Content

- Overview of Microsoft Project
  Exploring views in Microsoft Project
  Tables, forms and charts
  Menus and toolbars
  Gantt chart and task entry views
- Creating a New Plan
  How to start a project from scratch
  Setting a project finish date or a start date, which is best?
  Setting the default working times for the project
  Entering properties for the project
- Adding Tasks to your plan
  Entering tasks into your project
  Using the change highlighting feature
  Adding task notes
  Editing, deleting and rearranging tasks
  Using outlining to create summary tasks
  When to use estimated durations for tasks
- Linking Tasks
  Linking tasks using various different methods
  Understanding different link types and which one to use
  How to alter links between tasks
  Recurring tasks
  Splitting tasks
- Sorting and filtering
  Sorting and filtering tasks into a specified order
  Using highlights to find specific tasks easily
- Using Constraints Efficiently
  Using lag and lead to control tasks
  Adding deadlines and constraints
  Understanding constraint types such as flexible (soft) and Inflexible (Hard) types
  Problems with placing constraints on tasks
  How to view tasks with constraints and what the symbols mean
- Project Resources
  Adding resources to your project
  Using the correct resource type
  Assigning resources to tasks
  Assigning resources to work part time on tasks
  Dealing with a resource over-allocation
  Viewing Resource usage
- Calendars and Time
  Setting up the standard calendar
  Changing the default working time and adding holidays
  Using calendars to control different working patterns
  Controlling tasks by assigning a task calendar
  Sharing your calendars with other projects
- Costs
  Entering costs for resources
  Entering costs for tasks independent of resources
  Costs and summary tasks
- Custom Tables
  Understanding custom fields
  Naming a custom field
  Creating a formula to calculate field values
  Calculating formula values for summary tasks
  Displaying field values graphically
  Formatting task bars based on custom field values
- Formatting Gantt Charts
  Adding notes and lines to the gantt chart
  Alter how the working and non-working time is displayed
  Display a project summary bar
- Tracking your Project
  Setting the baseline
  When or if you should clear the baseline
  The concepts involved when tracking a project
  Updating the tasks that went to plan
  Rescheduling tasks that are running late
  Entering actual task information
  Using the current date feature
  Viewing statistics for your project
  Comparing you project against what was planned
  Viewing how much tasks have slipped
  Tips on tracking a project
- Planning Techniques
  Network Diagrams
  New shapes and outline symbols
  Viewing and understanding the critical path
  How to view slack time (float)
  Should tasks be dependent on resources or should they have the duration fixed?
- Printing Charts and the Calendar
  Create headers and footers using the project properties
  Add project-level fields to headers, footers or legends
  The options for printing legends
  Print setting for the different views
- Reports
  How to use the standard reports
  How to print a report of the costs over time
  Exporting your reports to Excel or Visio
- Master or Consolidated Projects
  Master projects (Consolidating)
  Creating master projects
  Master / sub project properties
  Mixing master / sub project tasks

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Latest Course Reviews

"Really enjoyed the training and the session "

S.T. Innogy Business Services, Microsoft Project Essentials

"Thank you very much - very helpful training. Great environment and lovely lunch."

S. DTV CRC, Microsoft Project Essentials

"Its a good overview of the whole programme"

G.V. Direct Rail Services, Microsoft Project Essentials

"Good use of time, well paced delivery"

C.F. Stockton on Tees Borough Council, Microsoft Project Essentials

"Clear, easy to follow and was delivered at the right pace. Excellent overall - would book through this company again"

C.F. Barnardo's, Microsoft Project Essentials

"Went away with a good understanding of the software as I have never used it before"

T.O. Cyclife Groupe EDF, Microsoft Project Essentials

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