Microsoft ® Project 2021 Introduction to MS Project eLearning

Microsoft® Project 2021 Introduction to MS Project eLearning

Microsoft Introduction to MS Project will guide participants through the basics to help them maximize their ability to leverage Microsoft Project to its full potential.

This hands-on course provides practical experience in using Microsoft Project. The course is designed for users with no prior knowledge of Microsoft Project. students will learn how to customize and schedule tasks and resources, optimize projects through planning, track and analyze project progress, and create custom reports.

What's included?

• One year access to the platform
• 12 lessons
• Duration approx. 12 hours
• Downloadable PDF documents with detailed content (images, explanations) for each lesson
• Access around the clock
• Exercises with instant online correction
• 12 months access to online courses

Objectives of the course You will learn:

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Customize and schedule tasks and resources
• Optimize projects through planning
• Track and analyze project progress
• Create customized reports

Who it is aimed at

The course will be suitable for people who want to familiarize themselves with and use Microsoft Project to create, build and modify project plans.

Content

• Project and project conditions
• Create project and resource calendars
• Setting tasks
• Task conditions and critical path
• Resources
• Variation
• Task constraints and task management
• Project cost
• Tracking
• Sorting, grouping and filtering
• Reporting
• TimeLine

What is covered in the course?

Project and project terms

• Brief overview of how Microsoft projects relate to project management
• Microsoft terminology

Create project and resource calendars

• Set default working hours and week
• Change the working hours
• Set additional non-working days, i.e. public holidays
• Apply a calendar to a project
• Create a new project calendar
• Create a new resource calendar and assign resources

Enter tasks

• Enter tasks, set durations and create milestones
• Manual vs automatic scheduling
• Dialog for task information
• Create summary tasks
• Creating project tasks
• Using the outline tools
• Adding notes

Task conditions and critical path

• Finish to Start, Start to Finish, Finish to Finish and Start to Start
• Theory of critical path
• Showing critical path
• Slack time
• Create lead and lag time (lead and lag)

Resources

• Enter resources
• Resource types
• Labels, names and groups
• Set costs, default and overtime
• Cost per use
• Resource Information dialog box
• Cost tables
• Fixed mission costs
• Assign resource calendars to resources
• Shows availability
• Assign resources to tasks

Variation

• Setting a baseline
• Setting multiple baselines
• Measuring variance against baselines using the gantt chart
• Modify the variance table to measure the required variance in the project

Data constraints and data management

• General (standard) restrictions
• Hard constraints
• Soft constraints
• Time limits
• Remove deadlines / restrictions
• Scheduling projects from start date
• Scheduling projects from end date
• Fixed duration vs. fixed units
• Create and assign task calendars

Project cost

• Resource costs
• Duration run
• View project statistics for project cost and duration
• View cost table (Gantt view)
• Identify over allocations
• Managing over-allocations

Tracking

• Setting a baseline
• Clearing a baseline
• Marking tasks % completed
• Using the tracking sensor to detect slippage
• Disabling tasks
• Reschedule the workload
• Measure tasks using project status
• Split up tasks

Sorting, grouping and filtering

• Sorting tasks by non-standard sort order
• Apply grouping levels
• Use the auto filter
• Use built-in filters to filter data

Reporting

• Customize project dashboards to measure the necessary information displayed
• Project Overview
• Late tasks
• Milestones
• Tasks by resources

TimeLine

• View the timeline
• Add tasks to the timeline
• Export to word / powerpoint