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Monday, November 26, 2012 at 8:06pm.
Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2010
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Advisicon
5411 NE 107th Ave.
Vancouver,
Washington
98662,
United States
(map)
Free on-street and lot parking available.
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Description
Class requires registration and costs $895.
7 PDUs available for this course.
Learning Objectives
- Create, manage, and update effective project schedules
- Create and manage resources, resource pools and assignments
- Learn the do’s and don’ts of working with Microsoft® Project Professional
- Create useful views for tracking, dashboards, printing, task usage, etc.
- Formatting tricks for automating critical path tracking
- Use reporting functions more effectively
Included Materials
This course includes a complimentary copy of Advisicon's Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2010 book.
Who should take this course?
Project managers, project team members, project schedulers… and anyone who has used Microsoft® Project Professional and had a hard time getting it to do what they wanted.
Course Outline
- Effective Use of Microsoft Project
- MS Project Overview
- Avoiding the pitfalls of working with MS Project
- Creating project schedules, segments, milestones
- Creating task relationships & dependencies
- Setting task constraints and outlining
- Managing and Tracking of Projects
- Utilizing scheduling methods to shorten the critical path of a project
- Utilizing MS Project Tools and Views to resolve resource conflicts
- Advanced resource scheduling techniques
- Managing costs, tracking baselines
- Tracking completion of actual work between tasks and resources
- Applying resource contours for forecasting and analyzing resource availability
- Managing and viewing planned and actual durations, costs and schedules
- Applying Resources and Calendars
- Creating and utilizing resource pools
- Applying layers of calendars
- Utilizing project views
- Formatting schedule layouts
- Utilizing project reports
- Understanding printing
- Working with External Data & Applications
- Linking data between applications
- Importing & exporting data
- Hyperlinking and web pages
- Utilizing business analysis templates
- Customizing for Better Management Results
- Using filters, tables, details and groups
- Creating views, filters, tables, and groups
- MS Project scheduling methodologies
- Utilizing effort‐driven scheduling