About this class
This two-day instructor-led course is designed for individuals who will use Microsoft Office Project as a tool to assist them in managing projects. The goal of this course is to introduce advanced techniques to fine-tune tasks and resources, optimize your project plan, track progress against the plan, and work with shared resources pools and consolidated projects. Students will also learn to customize the Project environment by setting preferences, recording macros, working with the organizer and creating custom views, tables and reports.
This course is designed for a person who has an understanding of project management concepts, who is responsible for creating and modifying project plans, and who needs a tool to manage those project plans.
What you'll be able to do
- Organizing Project Details
- Tracking Progress on Tasks and Assignments
- Viewing and Reporting Project Status
- Format and Print Views
- Format Reports
- Customizing Project
- Sharing Information with Other Programs
- Consolidating Projects and Resources
Course outline
Module 1Organizing Project Details
- Sort plan details
- Group plan details
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- have equivalent knowledge and skills.
- Create new tables
- Create new views
Module 2Tracking Progress on Tasks and Assignments
- Updating a baseline
- Tracking actual and remaining values for tasks and assignments
- Tracking timephased actual work for tasks and assignments
- Rescheduling incomplete work
Module 3Viewing and Reporting Project Status
- Examine a plan’s variance
- Identify tasks that have slipped
- Examine task costs
- Examine resource costs
Module 4Format and Print Views
- Format a Gantt chart view
- Format a Timeline view
- Format a Network Diagram view
- Format a Calendar view
- Print and export views
Module 5Format Reports
- Create a custom report
- Customize charts in a report
- Customize tables in a report
Module 6Customizing Project
- Sharing custom elements between plans
- Recording macros
- Editing macros
- Customizing the ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar
Module 7Sharing Information with Other Programs
- Copying Project data to other programs
- Opening other file formats in Project
- Saving to other file formats from Project
- Generating visual reports with Excel and Visio
Module 8Consolidating Projects and Resources
- Share a resource pool across multiple plans
- Consolidate plans
- Create dependencies between plans
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Before you attend
Students enrolling in this class should have attended Microsoft Project , Course PR OJ View and report project status Get your project back on track
Run this for a team
Private cohorts run on your dates, at your site or online, with the labs pointed at your environment. Above about four people it usually costs less than buying seats.
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