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Project 2010 Introduction
Microsoft Office 2010
 Next available Norwich date: 25 June 2012   |
Course Aims:
This course is designed to provide delegates with the knowledge and skills needed to build and manage projects in Microsoft Project 2010.
In particular, delegates will learn how to work with calendars, structure and build the task list, create links and work with resources and costs. In addition, delegates will learn how to manipulate tables, views and charts and control a project once it is running.
Assumed Knowledge:
Delegates must be competent in using a keyboard and mouse and be familiar with the Windows interface. No prior knowledge of Project is required although it is recommended that delegates have experience of using other Microsoft applications before attending this course.
Version:
Microsoft Office 2010
Profile Outline:
Course Introduction
- What is Project Management?
- What characterises a Project?
- Why use Project Management software?
Guidelines for using Microsoft Project 2010
- Preliminaries
- Planning
- Managing
- Terms used in Microsoft Project
Setting up a new project
- Creating a new project file
- Entering Background Information
- Setting the Start or End Date
- Setting up the Working Day
- Manual or Automatic Scheduling?
- Setting the Default Task Type
- Turning on the Project Summary Task
- Setting the Date Format and User Name
- Currency Format
Project Calendars
- Working Days and holidays
- Base Calendars
- Project Calendars
- Resource Calendars
- Task Calendars
- Adding Holidays or other non-working days
- Recurring Dates
Adding Tasks to the Project
- Manual or Automatic Scheduling?
- Task Durations
- Elapsed Units
- Task Types
Linking Tasks to show Task Dependencies
- Lead and Lag Time
- Constraints and Deadlines
Outlining Tasks
- Collapsing & Expanding the Outline
- Work Breakdown Structures
Critical Path
- Displaying the Critical Path in colour
- Slack Time
- Crashing the Project
Filtering
- Filtering Tasks with Autofilter
- Filtering from the Ribbon
Project Views
- Gantt Charts
- Network Diagram
- The Calendar View
- Customising the Gantt Chart
- Fitting the Gantt Chart to the screen
- Fine-Tuning the Timescale
- Non-Working Time display
- Changing Column Widths
- Timeline View
- Adding Tasks to the Timeline
Printing
- Printing a View
- Print Preview (Backstage View)
- Manual Page Formatting
Reports
- Visual Reports
- Standard Reports
Working with Resources
- Resource Pools
- Adding Resources to the Resource Sheet
- Types of Resource
- Resource Availability
- Resource Costs
- Assigning Resources
- Resource Assignment Dialogue Box
- Using Multiple Resources on a Single Task
- Resource Information - Change Working Time
- Viewing Resource Assignments
- Team Planner View
- Resource Usage View
- Task Usage View
Resource Leveling
- Over-allocated Resources
- When and Why Resources should be Leveled
- Splitting Task Assignments Option
- Viewing the results of Leveling
- Leveling Gantt View
Baselines & Interim Plans
- Customising the Tracking Gantt Chart
- Tracking Progress
- Who Will Track Progress?
- How to Track Progress
- Inactivating a Task
Multiple Projects
- Overview of master projects
- Working with subprojects in a master project
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Profile Details:
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Price: £360.00 
Duration: 2 days- Rating:
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Norwich Dates:
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25 June 2012
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