Project
Planning and Control
Learn how to use Microsoft Project to create and resource robust project plans and how to maintain and track throughout the project lifecycle.
Course overview
Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours)
Our Project Planning and Control course gives you the essential skills to use Microsoft Project to build, resource and monitor project schedules. It looks at initial setup, building plans, using a work breakdown structure and managing resources through to baselining and progressing your schedule.
This course is designed for new or existing users of Microsoft Project, and no previous experience of Project is required. Knowledge of planning techniques would be an advantage.
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Create project schedules
- Build a Work Breakdown Structure
- Create relationships
- Set baselines
- Manage resources
- Set deadlines and task properties
- Print and report on your project
- Update and track project schedules
Content
Creating a new project
- Project defaults
- Project start date
- Setting default hours per day/week
- Setting daily working times
- Project timeline
Building a project
- Creating a work breakdown structure
- Adding tasks and durations
- Estimated durations
- Setting milestones
- Recurring tasks
Linking, Baselining and Resourcing
- Setting start dates and dependencies
- Task Inspector
- Resourcing
- Assigning resources
- Filtering available resources
- Baseline
- Setting a baseline
- Removing a baseline
Managing resources
- Resource properties
- Dealing with over allocations
Tasking information
- Constraint dates
- Setting deadline
- Assigning task specific calendars
- Task types
Updating your project
- Completing work
- Completing work per resource
- Updating tasks
- Updating the project
- Rescheduling work
- Change highlighting
Printing and reporting
- Setup and Printing
- Visual reports
- Using the Timeline
- Creating Dashboard reports
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