Project 2007 Foundation

Target Audience

New or inexperienced users of Microsoft Project, those upgrading from a previous version of Project or migration from another project management package.

Pre-requisites

To fully benefit from this course, attendees are expected to be familiar with Windows and use of the keyboard and mouse. Knowledge of a previous project management package (or other Office application such as Word, Excel or Access) would be useful, although not essential.

On completion of the course, delegates will be able to:

• Prepare the planning environment and set preferences
• Define and create a project structure
• Determine task relationships and constraints
• Manage resource and allocate costs
• Adjust schedules with date, dependency and resource constraints
• Analyse and adjust the critical path
• Customise and print Gantt Chart views and reports
• Record and review task progress against a Baseline

Learning Project Basics

Starting Microsoft Project & Using the Interface • Working Hours & Non-working Days • Opening/Saving/Closing a Project

Working with & Making Adjustments to Tasks

Durations/Tasks • Milestones & Recurring Tasks • Linking/Unlinking Tasks • Changing Task Relationships • Lag & Lead Times • Constraints & Deadlines • IndentingOutdenting/Collapsing/Expanding Tasks  • Rolling Up Gantt Bars to Summary Bar • Summary Tasks • Viewing the WBS Codes

Working with Views

Changing Views & Using a Combination View • Formatting/Zooming the Timescale  • Formatting Text/Bars/Gridlines • Printing & Preview a Report

Working with & Adjusting Resources

Work & Material Resources • Assigning a Work/Material Resources to a Task • Task Types & Work Assignments  • Resource Usage/Overallocation & Conflicts  • Resource & Tineframe Levelling • Task Level Priority

Calendars

Individual Resource Calendars • Creating/Assigning Base Calendars to Resources • Assigning Calendars to Tasks/Projects

Assigning Costs

Costs/Standard & Overtime Rates  • Resource Codes & Rate Tables  • Fixed Resource Costs  • Assigning Costs

Critical Path & Baselines

Viewing Slack • Shortening the Critical Path & Assigning Overtime • Working with & Using the Baseline • Saving/Clearing Task/Project Baselines

Tracking Your Progress

Revising the Current Date  • Updating a Task on/Not on Schedule  • Viewing Slippage & Entering Percentage Complete  • Actual Work Values & Progress Lines

Finalizing a Project

Marking Tasks Complete & Correcting Actual Data  • Using Final Data in a New Project • Copying Task Names to a New Project

Working with Multiple Projects

Master & Subprojects • Unlinking SubprojectsConsolidating Open Projects • Viewing Multiple Critical Paths • Saving Workspace Files

Working with Resource Pools

Creating/Updating/Opening Resource Pools • Linking a Project to a Resource Pool • Opening a Sharer File

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We have a rolling programme of Scheduled Public sessions for the majority of standard courses – both in IT Productivity and Management & Soft Skills. Group sizes are limited to ensure optimum learning amongst delegates.

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