Mastering Microsoft Project 2007

14.00 Professional Development Units (PMI)

Professional Development Units (PMI)

Webucator is a Registered Education Provider approved by PMI to issue 14.00 professional development units for the successful completion of this course.

Delivery Options

• Customized Onsite Training (2 days): Request a Proposal

Class Description

Class Overview

Class Goals

• Understand the discipline of project management as it applies to using Project.
• Learn to create a work breakdown structure.
• Learn to identify task relationships.
• Learn to define resources within Project.
• Learn to make work package estimates.
• Learn to create an initial schedule.
• Learn to create a resource leveled schedule.
• Learn to manage and track the project through the software.
• Learn to format output and print reports.
• Learn to integrate multiple projects.

Class Outline

1. Introduction to Mastering Microsoft Project
   1. What Is a Project?
   2. The Five Project Success Factors
   3. The Project Lifecycle: A Framework for Success
   4. Project Definition and the Project Plan
   5. The Five-Step Planning Model
   6. How Project Management Software Displays Information
   7. Navigating the Software
   8. Understanding Views
   9. Quick Access to Views and Tables
   10. Split Screen Views
   11. Insert a Column
   12. Custom Fields
   13. The Project Guide
   14. Custom Project Guides
2. Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
   1. Identifying Project Tasks
   2. Show Project Summary Task
   3. Organizing the WBS
   4. Grouping
   5. Grouping Demonstration and Discussion
   6. WBS Number vs. Outlining
   7. Task Outline Numbers
   8. Custom WBS Numbers
   9. Application of a WBS Prefix (Mask)
   10. WBS Before and After the Prefix (Mask) I Applied
   11. Task Notes
   12. Evaluating the WBS
   13. Before Entering a WBS
   14. WBS Templates
   15. Using a Template
   16. Editing a Template
   17. Creating a Template
   18. Lab: Manipulate a WBS
3. Identifying Task Relationships
   1. Determining Task Sequence
   2. Types of Task Relationships (Dependencies)
   3. Methods of Creating the Relationship
   4. Using Lag to Manage Time Between Tasks
   5. Lag, Lead and Delay
   6. The Network Diagram
   7. Formatting the Network Diagram
   8. Formatting to Show Specific Data
   9. Formatting to Network Diagram
   10. Lab: Display the Sequence
4. Defining Resources within Project
   1. Resources
   2. Resource Sheet
   3. Resource Units
   4. Resource Costs
   5. Resource Costs: Cost Rate
   6. Resource Calendar and Exceptions to the Base Calendar
   7. Task Calendar
   8. Resource Calendar
   9. Exceptions to Calendars
   10. Lab: Resource Calendar and Availability
5. Making Work Package Estimates
   1. Work Package Estimates
   2. Duration Estimates
   3. Assigning Resources to Tasks
   4. Effort and Task Types
   5. Effort Driven Scheduling
   6. Default Task Type and Effort Driven Settings
   7. Resource Delay Within a Task
   8. Lab: Work, Duration and Labor
6. Creating an Initial Schedule
   1. Calculate the Schedule: The Theory Behind the Software
   2. Critical Path
   3. Schedule Float
   4. Constraints
   5. Deadlines
   6. Task Relationships and Crashing a Schedule
   7. Milestones
   8. Change Highlighting
   9. PERT Estimating
   10. Lab: Calculating an Initial Schedule
7. Create a Resource Leveled Schedule
   1. Project Statistics
   2. Resource Graph and Resource Sheet
   3. Resource Usage View
   4. Resource Allocation
   5. Task Usage View
   6. Realistic Resource Planning
   7. Resource Leveling
   8. Leveling Settings
   9. Leveling Settings Defined - Leveling Calculations
   10. Leveling Settings Defined - Resolving Overallocations
   11. The Leveling Gantt Demonstrates Results of Leveling
   12. Manual Leveling
   13. Lab: Resource Leveling
8. Managing the Project
   1. Tracking Field Definitions
   2. Creating the Project Baseline
   3. Displaying the Baseline on a Gantt Chart
   4. The Tracking Gantt
   5. Recording Progress Using % Complete
   6. Updating Task and Resource Status
   7. Recording Progress Using Actual Work
   8. Variance
   9. Percent Complete
   10. Cost
   11. Evaluating and Displaying Variance
   12. Schedule Interruptions
   13. Splitting Tasks
   14. Rescheduling Work
   15. Lab: The Baseline
   16. Lab: Baselining & Tracking Performance
   17. Baselining & Tracking Performance
   18. Lab: Variance
9. Formatting Output and Printing Reports
   1. Using the Gantt Wizard
   2. Visual Reports
   3. Standard Reports
   4. Custom Reports
   5. Editing a Custom Report
   6. Reports
   7. Copy Picture to Office Wizard
   8. More Formatting for the Gantt Chart
   9. Reporting Against Budget
   10. Creating a Budget
   11. Lab: Reporting
10. Managing Multiple Projects
    1. Integrating Multiple Projects
    2. Consolidating Project Files
    3. Resource Pools
    4. The Consolidated Project: Is it Realistic?

Class Materials

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