MS Project Basics

Microsoft Project is a 2-day course which teaches and demonstrates the power and versatility of Microsoft Project as a tool for Project Coordinators, Planners and Managers. On completion of this course you will be able to create Gantt charts, prepare project plans, create meaningful schedules, run basic reports and track progress against a project plan.

We help you to apply Microsoft Project to your projects during the course helping you gain practical skills by using its functionality to help plan real-world scenarios.

A key feature of this course is the hands-on exercises. These exercises help build confidence, consolidate understanding and reinforce learning. Delegates may also try out ideas based on their own projects.

The course provides practical instruction and guidance on how to set up Microsoft Project for your own environment.

Class sizes are kept to 8 students to facilitate lecturer/student interaction and class discussion.

This course covers a substantial amount of work towards the Microsoft Project MOUS (Microsoft Office User Specialist) core-level certification objectives

Introduction to Microsoft Project

• Project Management in a nutshell
• What Microsoft Project can do for us
• Menus and Toolbars
• Creating a Project File

Entering and Organising Tasks

• Entering Tasks
• Milestones
• Linking Tasks and Task Relationships
• Documenting Task Details

Setting up Resources

• 
  People, Equipment and Material Resources
• Resource Costs and Rates
• Documenting Resource Details

Assigning Resources to Tasks

• Assignments
• Duration, Work and the Scheduling Formula
• Assigning Multiple Resources to Tasks

Fine-tuning your Plan

• Adjusting Working Time
• Changing Task Types
• Interrupting Work on Tasks
• Setting up Recurring Tasks
• Setting Task Constraints
• Viewing the Critical Path

Sorting, Grouping and Filtering Information

• Displaying different Views
• Formatting the Gantt Chart
• Editing and Creating Tables
• Defining Custom Views
• Customizing and Printing Views
• Customizing and Printing Reports

Tracking Progress against the Plan

• Saving a Baseline
• Tracking a Project
• Tracking Work by Time Period
• Identifying Over Budget Tasks and Resources
• Troubleshooting Time and Schedule Problems

Working with Multiple Projects

• Sharing a Resource Pool
• Consolidated Projects
• Creating Dependencies between Projects
• Customizing the Project Environment
• Sharing Information between Projects