This is for more experienced Project users.

Overview

This hands-on course is for experienced users of Microsoft Project who want to enhance their expertise.

Duration

1 Day

Requirements

To make the most of this course, participants need some experience of Microsoft Project, including: entering tasks, assigning resources to tasks and printing reports and views. Although not a formality, participants should be familiar with most of the topics covered in Optimum’s Microsoft Project Level 1 course.

Objectives

• Identify and fix problems in your schedule
• Manage the project as it progresses, tracking work in progress and managing conflicts
• Work with costs and budgets
• Combine multiple projects and consolidate resources
• Collaborate with team members, other project managers or project sponsors
• Share project information with other programs, such as Excel or Access
• Customise Project to match your way of working.

Content

Review resource management:
Resource driven or effort driven scheduling; using a resource calendar; assigning resources to tasks; resource costs, accrued costs and fixed costs; identifying and resolving resource conflicts and over-allocation.

Working with costs:
Applying costs to resources; assigning different rates to a resource; adding fixed costs; assessing costs; views to help with costs; using Excel links; creating and tracking resource budgets.

Tracking and updating the schedule:
Understanding tracking techniques, using the Tracking toolbar; adding the actual times and costs; updating tasks and updating the project; adding progress bars; working with baselines; comparing baselines with actual data; making the most of tracking views and tables.

Collaborating:
Sharing resources and resolving conflicts; creating a resource pool; attaching a project to a resource pool; monitoring all resource assignments; combining projects quickly; keeping information up-to-date; updating working times; opening a sharer file and updating the resource pool; creating dependency between projects. Exporting information to Excel and Access; copying and pasting information; opening or saving other file formats.

Customising Project:
Creating a custom view or a custom table; customising graphical reports; creating and using a Project template; customising the Global template; personalising toolbars and menus; recording and running a macro.