Course Outline
This is a 1 day, instructor-led course.
This course builds on the fundamentals of project management using MS Project, covering the more advanced features of the application.
During this course, students will practice:
• Managing the project and understanding Project Views
• Creating Baselines and Tracking Progress
• Understanding Project Costs
• Printing and Reporting
• Multiple Projects and Resource Sharing
• Master and Sub Projects
Delegates should ideally have attended the Microsoft Project Level 1 course, but in any case they should have a reasonable grasp of the fundamentals of MS Project.
This is a 1 day, instructor-led course.
This course builds on the fundamentals of project management using MS Project, covering the more advanced features of the application.
During this course, students will practice:
• Managing the project and understanding Project Views
• Creating Baselines and Tracking Progress
• Understanding Project Costs
• Printing and Reporting
• Multiple Projects and Resource Sharing
• Master and Sub Projects
Delegates should ideally have attended the Microsoft Project Level 1 course, but in any case they should have a reasonable grasp of the fundamentals of MS Project.
Managing the project and understanding project views
Exercises: Preparing a project for analysis and tracking and performing Resource Levelling
Customising the Gantt Chart bars
Displaying the Critical Path
Using the Formatting Tab of the ribbon
Using Network Diagrams
Displaying Tables
Inserting and hiding columns
Creating a New Table
Applying Filters
Using AutoFilters
Understanding and viewing WBS Codes
Examining and Updating the Project
Amending tasks using various views
Using Resource Levelling
Understanding baseline and interim plans
View project baseline information
Compare baseline and scheduled information
Tracking and Updating Tasks Effectively
Exercise: Updating the Holiday project
Viewing Progress Lines
Exercise: Show the Project Progress Line
Understanding project costs
Exercise: Adding costs
Creating a budget
Viewing total resource costs
Viewing total task costs
Reducing project costs
Understanding Project Deliverables
Printing and Reporting
Printing project views
Viewing and changing the print settings
Add a header, footer, or legend to a view
Viewing the built in Reports
Editing Reports
Visual Reports
What You Can Print
Reports by Report Type
Multiple Projects and Resource Sharing
The Resource Pool
Exercise: Create a resource pool from an existing project and share the resources
Updating the Resource Pool
Review and update assignments
Update resource availability or cost information
Stop sharing resources (temporarily)
Stop sharing resources from a Resource Pool (permanently)
Consolidating projects
When to use a master project and subprojects
Insert subprojects into a master project
Compare Project Versions
Price per delegate
£350
Scheduled Classes
Indicia Training, Glasgow:
Please complete the contact form below or call 0141 221 5676 for further course information and available dates.
Alternatively you can email us at info@indiciatraining.com