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Microsoft Project 2000 - Introduction/Intermediate Level

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Students will learn the fundamentals of Microsoft Project 2000 in this 2 day course. Learn the basics of designing a Project Plan, assigning resources their tasks, changing and implementing calendars, using views and filters to assemble information, and print out your Project Plan. Looking at the cost implications of the project and tracking the project to its completion. Additional topics cover the customisation of reports and consolidating Master and Subordinate projects. Delegates should have experience of the windows environment. Knowledge of Project Management is useful but not essential as some of these principles are discussed on the course.

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Delivery:
  • In House
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Difficulty:
  • Introductory

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Key Learning Points


Project Management and the Project Life Cycle
• What is a Project?
• What is Project Management?
• Planning with Work Breakdown Structure
• The Project Life CycleGetting 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 and Editing Tasks
• Entering Task Durations
• Entering Milestones
• Entering Recurring Tasks
• Changing Task Information
• Inserting Task Notes
• Saving the ProjectTask 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
• Resource Scheduling
• Fixed Duration
• Fixed Work
• Fixed Units

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

Resolving Resource Conflicts
• Resource Management Toolbar
• Find Overallocations
• What do you do about it?
• Resolving Resource Conflicts Automatically
• Levelling the Project
• Viewing effects of levelling

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 featureCont’d…

Printing your Project
• Preparing your Project for Print (WYSIWYG)
• 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 BoxReporting in Project
• Overview of list of reports
• Cost Reports
• Assignment Reports
• Workload Reports
• Building a Custom ReportsWorking with Costs
• Displaying Cost information
• Entering fixed costs
• Controlling costs
• Reducing costs

Tracking Progress
• Recording Progress
• Saving a Baseline
• Using the Tracking Toolbar
• Update scheduled tasks
• Update Actual Start and Actual Finish
• Reschedule tasks not yet started
• Tracking Actual Tasks against Actual Work
• Viewing Costs over Budget
• Updating when timesheets received
• Viewing Actual and Baseline Data
• Final assessment of the Plan

Project Consolidation
• Resource Pool
• Verify Pool Links
• Sharing Pool with other projects
• Resolving Overallocations in a Resource Pool
• Creating a Master Plan
• Cross-Project Task Linking

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