Effective Scheduling Practices using Microsoft Project – 2007 Professional
 

Introduction and Prerequisites

 MS Project professional  2007 is the latest tool in project management and  provides you all the tools you need for effective planning, tracking, problem solving, sharing, and completing a project in keeping with conventional management principals and practices. MS Project professional 2007  can be used for a project regardless of  size. It simply provides a framework to start with, as well as the means to organize and manage effectively. It is like having a project management assistant.

This MS project  professional 2007 training course provides project management and team management professionals with the knowledge and skills to build maintain and control well formed MS project plans that are practical and realistic and something that would be used throughout the lifecycle of the project.

 A familiarity with basic project management and team management concepts and terminology is recommended as well as windows navigation skills are required. Prior use of MS Project will help in ms project coaching, but it is  not necessary. The broad learning objective is to Understand the role of Microsoft Project Professional in effectively implementing Project Management (defining Scope, defining resources, developing a schedule; base lining the project, effective tracking and reporting).

 You Will Learn how to:

 Create a well formed ms project schedule

Assign resources to tasks

Resource leveling skills and concepts

Understand task types and the schedule formula

Analyze resource utilization

Track progress using MS project professional 2007

Customize and format the MS Project Views and look and feel

Baseline, update and track projects

Generate reports and take status reports

 Course Contents

• Introduction to Project Management
• Introduction to Microsoft Project Professional
• Creating Tasks and Task Management
• Listing Resources and Task Allocation
• Project Plan Formatting
• Project Costs
• Project Tracking and monitoring
• Reporting Options
• Task and Task Relationships
• Earned Value Management and populating EVM values
• Coordinating multiple projects