Project Management Training, Basingstoke

In addition to delivering projects on schedule and within budget, project teams must reduce time to market and cope with rapidly shifting conditions. Microsoft Project is a powerful tool to help you break projects down into manageable parts, identify potential bottlenecks and generate information to keep your projects under control.
This course will be useful to potential project managers, or those working on a company project. Discussion about your projects or potential projects can be included in the course. On completion  you should feel confident in your ability to work with this application and feel comfortable with the terms used in Project.

To create a working Microsoft Project schedule that reflects accurate work, costs and scheduled resources.
To manage and update the Project schedule, deal with conflicts and manage resources.

• Plan projects, tasks, activities and the use of resources using Microsoft Project 2003
• Develop and schedule projects timelines
• Assign and optimize teams and resources
• Manage costs and schedules for multiple projects
• Track project progress to detect and avert impending problems
• Produce essential management reports

Initiating the Project

DEFINING THE WORK PACKAGES - Outlining your project - Specifying the work - Categorizing the tasks - Establishing the project calendar - Entering a project in process

ESTIMATING CRITICAL FACTORS - Determining the duration of tasks - Calculating level of effort required - Costing issues you need to address

STRUCTURING TASKS - Linking tasks using dependencies  - Identifying the critical path - Displaying task relationships - Lead and lag links

Scheduling the Timeline

ESTABLISHING SIGNIFICANT MILESTONES - Setting up project milestones  - Specifying recurring events - Linking tasks with multiple projects 

 

CREATING THE GANTT CHART - Managing the scheduled start/finish dates - Displaying and formatting the data - Showing slack on non-critical tasks

Defining Project Resources

CREATE THE RESOURCE SHEET [RESOURCE POOL] - Naming project resources  - Setting standard values - Editing resources - Costing resources - Managing resources

 

PLANNING RESOURCE USAGE - Determining resource availability  - Assigning resources to tasks  - Accessing a resource pool - Sharing with other projects

SETTING YOUR PROJECT BASELINE - Identifying resource overload  - Using slack to remove conflicts  - Levelling and optimizing resources  - Adjusting the project budget  - Saving and resetting the project baseline

Running the Project

ANALYSING AND TRACKING YOUR PROJECT - Entering work, cost and duration - Displaying planned vs. actual data - Evaluating variances to the plan  - Viewing data in different forms - Using standard reports

RUNNING MULTIPLE PROJECTS - Controlling the resource pool

 

REACTING TO SHIFTING CONDITIONS - Identifying alternative solutions - Preparing a corrective plan  - Implementing a new plan

Deploying Project

REPORTING ACROSS MULTIPLE PROJECTS - Consolidating multiple projects  

 

INTEGRATING OTHER APPLICATIONS - Interfacing with Outlook - Interface to and from Excel  - Transferring data to Word and PowerPoint