Microsoft Project 2017® Fundamentals

Who Should Attend:

• Project Managers
• Project Coordinators
• Project Team Members
• PMO Support Staff

Course Objectives

Explore Real World projects scenarios to:

• Use MS Project to initialise projects
• Use MS Project to create a task-based schedule
• Use MS Project manage resources and assignments
• Use MS Project to track and analyse your project
• Use MS Project to report and communicate project information.

What will you gain?

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Leverage Microsoft Project to plan and manage project schedules and resources
• Create tasklist, project plans and allocate resources
• Generate, manage and track resource assignments
• Easily track progress and monitor variances between targets and actuals
• Use advanced scheduling features to organise project details and ascertain project status
• Exploit tools to plan, manage and collaborate with other people and teams
• Troubleshoot scheduling problems and keep project on track
• Produce dynamic reports using the formatting and printing features available to Microsoft Project
• Share and combine data with other programmes/applications.

Course Content

Part 1 Simple Scheduling 

1. A guided tour of project
2. Creating a task list
3. Setting up resources
4. Assigning resources to tasks
5. Formatting and sharing your plan
6. Tracking progress on  tasks

 Part 2 Advanced Scheduling 

1. Fine-tuning task details
2. Fine-tuning resource details
3. Fine-tuning assignment details
4. Fine-tuning the project plan
5. Organising project details
6. Tracking progress on tasks and assignments
7. Viewing and reporting project status
8. Getting your project back on track

 Part 3 Special Subjects 

1. Applying advanced formatting and printing
2. Customising project
3. Sharing project information with other programmes
4. Consolidating projects and resources.