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Course Outline

Introduction

  • Understanding what constitutes a project.
  • Core principles of project development.
  • The triple constraint model.

Getting Started

  • Installing the software.
  • Key features of Microsoft Project.
  • Navigating the help resources.
  • Saving, searching, and opening project files.
  • Exploring basic views.

Scheduling

  • Scheduling rules and logic.
  • Types of schedules.
  • Working with project calendars.
  • Entering tasks into the schedule.
  • Editing scheduled tasks.
  • Setting task durations.
  • Managing continuous time tasks.
  • Estimating task durations.
  • Setting project and task priorities.
  • Establishing task dependencies.
  • Using lag and lead times.
  • Defining milestones.
  • Visualising tasks across different views.

Optimising the Schedule

  • Applying task constraints.
  • Setting deadlines.
  • Identifying critical tasks.
  • Understanding the critical path.
  • Managing project float.
  • Compressing the critical path.
  • Customising project views.

Resources

  • Defining resources.
  • Understanding variable resource costs.
  • Accounting for one-time costs.
  • Working with rate tables.
  • Managing resource availability.
  • Defining job titles and roles.
  • Work equation constants.
  • Calculating work input.
  • Allocating resources to tasks.
  • Identifying resource overallocation.
  • Resolving resource conflicts.

Costs

  • Managing fixed costs.
  • Strategies for cost control.
  • Analyzing costs for projects, tasks, resources, and labor.

Project Execution

  • Methods for project implementation.
  • Setting and using baselines.
  • Analyzing project status.
  • Evaluating deviations from the plan.
  • Managing project changes.

Reporting

  • Utilising built-in reports in Microsoft Project.
  • Creating custom reports.

Data Management

  • Sorting data.
  • Applying filters.
  • Grouping data.

Earned Value Analysis

Requirements

Familiarity with basic MS Office applications is required.

 14 Hours

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