MS Project Beginners Course

At the end if this one day course, you will be able to enter a project schedule in MS Project, and manage it. You will be able to manage and track tasks and resources, and get useful management information from the project. The concepts and terminology used in Microsoft Project will be clearly explained.

Who should attend:

Project managers and project admin, or people who are working towards these job titles

INCLUDED:

• Please bring your own Laptop. To use ours, let us know beforehand.
• You can bring your own data and examples , but let us know beforehand.
• Refreshments: Tees, coffees and light refreshments excluding lunch
• Certificates: A PCWorkshops Attendance certificates
• Notes: You will get brief course notes
• On-site support:1-hour on-line support is included after the course.

• Overview of Microsoft Project
• Terminology

Creating a new project:

• Project Scheduling,
• entering tasks,
• durations,
• relationships,
• milestones and deadlines
• phases.

Resources:

• Creating cost and material resources,
• Allocations,
• Dealing with over-allocations.

Baselining and tracking progress, keeping your project on track.

Views and Reports

• Table views, inserting additional columns
• Project Statistics
• Viewing and modifying the Gantt Chart
• Network, Calendar and other views
• Reports: General overview reports, cost reports, resource reports, assignment reports

Creating a Project – Summary of key steps