Introductory

Microsoft Project 2003/2007/2010

Introductory Level

The course is designed for new or potential users wishing to understand the fundamentals of Project Management using Microsoft Project. By the end of this course, delegates will be familiar with MS-Project and they will be able to use its features to perform basic project management tasks.

Pre-Requisite                        Delegate must have some project management experience, as the course concentrates on using the software, not on project management.

Duration:                                1 Day

Project Management and Project Life Cycle
  •  What is a project?
  • What is Project Management?
  • Planning with Work Breakdown Structure
  • The Project Life Cycle
Getting Started with Project
  • What is Microsoft Project?
  • Screen Overview
  • Opening an existing Project
  • The Gantt Chart View
  • Tables used in Project
  • System Options
  • Base Calendars
Setting Project Objectives
  • The Project Information Dialog Box
  • Outlining the plan
  • Inserting the editing tasks
  • Entering task durations
  • Entering milestones
  • Entering recurring tasks
  • Changing task information
  • Inserting task notes
  • Saving the project
Task Dependencies
  • Task relationships
  • Lag and lead time
  • Splitting tasks
  • Understanding critical tasks and the critical path
  • Slack time
  • Entering task constraints
Defining Resources
  • Adding resources to the plan
  • Assigning resources their tasks
  • Effort driven scheduling
Using Calendars
  • The type of calendars used in Project
  • Making changes to the Project calendar
  • Making changes to the resources calendar
  • Making and assigning a new calendar
Overview of Project Views
  • The views bar
  • Other views within Project
  • Filtering data using the filter
  • Filtering data using the Autofilter
  • grouping data using the group feature
Printing your Project
  • Preparing your Project for print
  • Printing Gantt charts
  • Controlling multiple pages
  • Page height and width
  • Formatting headers, footers and legends
  • Manipulating the print with the view tab
  • The print dialog box
Reporting in Project
  • Overview of list of reports
  • Cost reports
  • Assignment reports
  • Workload reports