Date/Time
Date(s) - 28/08/2020
All Day
Location
Glasgow Training Centre
Categories
Audience: This course is aimed at Microsoft Project users wishing to further their project skills. Some experience in working with Microsoft Project and creating a basic project plan is required.
Course Duration: 1 day
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Identify and resolve over-allocations
- Create a Project baseline
- Understand the uses of resource pools
- Create multiple Projects
- Track a Project using the Tracking Gantt view
- Create and modify Tables
- Create calculated fields
- Apply Project filters
- Display Reports
- Templates
- Team Planner
- Office online and 365 additional functionality
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Module 1: Resource Techniques
- What are over-allocations?
- Identifying over-allocated tasks
- Task inspector
- Viewing resource assignments and finding over-allocations
- Viewing the project critical path
- Resource leveling explained
- Leveling options
- Applying leveling
- Uses of the Leveling Gantt
- Applying the Leveling Gantt
- Clear leveling
Module 2: Baselines
- Why save a baseline?
- Saving the baseline
- Removing a baseline
- Revising the baseline
- Adding new tasks to an existing baseline
- Multiple baselines
Module 3: Multiple Project Plans
- Why use multiple project plans?
- Creating a resource pool
- Setting Project and task priorities
- Creating consolidated Projects
- Linking tasks across Projects of a consolidated Project
- Leveling consolidated Projects
- Saving project workspaces
Module 4: Tracking a Project Plan
- What is tracking?
- Tracking Gantt view
- Updating the Project schedule
- Working with actuals
- Comparing the actuals and planned progress of a Project
- Inactive tasks
- Additional Project tracking options
Module 5: Additional Table Topics
- Displaying additional Project tables
- Modifying table fields
- Working with custom fields
- Creating a calculation
- Working with graphical indicators
- Creating addition tables
Module 6: Project Filters
- Why use Project filters?
- Using the standard Project filters
- Creating custom filters
Module 7: Reporting the Plan
- Introduction to Project reports
- Displaying reports
- Creating custom reports
- Applying filters to reports
Module 8: Global Template
- Benefits of using the global template
- Uses of the organiser
- Guidelines of the organiser
- Adding custom tables, filters and reports to the global template using the organiser
- Deleting tables, filters and reports from the global template using the organiser
Module 9: Additional Project Views
- Calendar
- Network diagram
- Task Usage
- Resource usage
- Timeline
- Team Planner
Module 10: Additional Functionality – Requires PROJECT ONLINE / 365 * Project Professional
- Resource Manager
- Resource Engagements
- Resource Capacity – Heat Maps
- Resource usage
- Timeline
- Team Planner