This course is designed for users who want an understanding of project management concepts, specifically targeted for individuals who are responsible for creating and modifying project plans and could benefit from tools to assist in managing projects.
Course Objectives
The course will cover the following elements:
- Identify the basic features and components of the Microsoft Project environment
- Create a new project plan file and enter project information
- Manage tasks by organizing tasks and setting task relationships
- Manage resources for a project
- Finalize a project plan
Course Benefits
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Explore the microsoft project environment
- Display an existing project plan in different views
- Create a project plan
- Assign a project calendar
- Add tasks to project plan
- Enter the task duration estimates
- Add resources to a project plan
- Outline tasks
- Link dependent tasks
- Set task constraints and deadlines
- Add notes to a task
- Add a recurring task
- Create a resource calendar
- Assign resources to tasks
- Enter costs for resources
- Resolve resources conflicts
- Shorten a project using the critical path
- Set a baseline
- Print a project summary report