Microsoft Project Advanced

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

• 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