Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/10/2021
All Day
Location
Glasgow Training Centre
Categories
Audience: This Microsoft Project introduction course is for those who are a new user, or if you have some knowledge of Project and wish to understand of how to get the best out of the application.
Course Duration: 1 day
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Understand Project terminology
- Open and close Project plans
- Tell Me
- Modify the Project calendar
- Create Project plans
- Entering tasks
- User controlled scheduling
- Task durations
- Link tasks
- Task Inspector
- Understand resource over-allocations
- Set the Project baseline
- Use the tracking toolbar
- Tracking
Module 1: Getting Started
- Introduction to Microsoft Project
- Project terminology
- What is the Critical Path?
- Use of Baselines
Module 2: The Basics
- Opening and closing a Project plan
- Navigating the Project window
- Working with the ribbon
- Backstage view
- Tell me
- Zoom slider
Module 3: Creating a Project
- Set the project start date
- Working with the Project’s calendars
- Difference between individual and the Project calendars
- Entering non-working time
- Project properties
- Saving a Project
Module 4: Entering and Editing Tasks
- Understanding and specifying the task mode (manually scheduled or auto-scheduled)
- Adding auto-scheduled or manual tasks
- Entering task durations
- Visual highlight
- Adding milestones
- Reordering tasks
- Inserting and deleting tasks
- Reordering tasks
- Creating summary tasks (Outlining and WBS)
- Adding outline numbers and Project summary tasks
- Task priorities
- Task notes
- Inactive tasks
Module 5: Linking Tasks
- Understanding the types of links (relationships) between tasks
- Linking tasks
- Modifying task relationships
- Entering lead and lag times
- Split tasks
- Difference between deadlines and constraints
- Set a deadline
- Discuss types of constraints
- Set a constraint
Module 6: Resourcing the Project Plan
- Introducing the types of resources
- Adding resources
- Modifying the resource types
- Assigning resources to tasks
Module 7: Additional Resource Techniques
- Resource over-allocations
- Viewing resource assignments and finding over-allocations
- Task inspector
- Resource leveling
- Viewing the Project critical path
- Introduction to the Team planner
Module 8: Setting a Baseline
- When to set a baseline
- Set a baseline
- Clear a baseline