Microsoft Project - Introduction

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Microsoft Project is a project management software program designed to assist project managers in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress and managing budgets and analysing workloads.

Participants will be able to:

• Understand and use the basic features of MS Project.
• Create a project plan using a Gant Chart Set up and use Project and Resource Calendars
• Work with and create task relationships, constraints and deadlines
• Format Gantt Charts
• Create, allocate and manage resources
• Record, track and evaluate the project progress
• Report on the projects progress with Gantt charts and reports

Benefits to the Individual

• Increased career prospects through expertise in globally popular project management software
• Enhanced project management capabilities
• Be able to stay on top of ever changing projects
• Better manage resources and their availability

Benefits to the Organisation

• Increased success in meeting project objectives
• Greater understanding by Senior/Executive Managers of what it takes to deliver a project
• Increased project governance and control over project delivery
• Greater transparency and understanding of project management activities
• Increased knowledge of resources workload

• Project Managers & Project Directors
• Project Coordinators & Project Support staff
• Project Officers
• Project Team Leaders & Team members
• Programme / Project Management Office staff
•  Project Business Analysts
• Project Schedulers
• Change Managers

Introduction to Project

• Overview
• Getting Started

Starting a Project

• Scheduling a Project
• The Project calendar
• Resource calendars

Tasks and Durations

• Creating tasks
• Creating milestones
• Outlining a project
• Task durations
• Task Notes process

Task Scheduling

• Task relationships
• Relationship types
• Lead and lag time
• Task constraints
• Deadlines

Formatting

• Text
• Bars
• Gantt chart wizard

Resources

• Creating resources
• Task types
• Assigning resources
• Automatically levelling resources
• Manually levelling resources

Project Costs

• Variable costs
• Fixed costs

Tracking the Project

• Creating project baselines
• Tracking
• What can go wrong

Printing

• Printing the Gantt chart
• Printing Reports

• Professional Delivery by MetaPM Training Consultant
• MetaPM Course notes
• Refreshments

Our Microsoft Project courses are delivered publicly around Australia, and can be tailored for in-house delivery at your organisation for groups of 6 or more.

Upcoming course dates are listed on the right of this page.

Or, view our course complete course schedule here: Course Schedule

Individual and multiple attendee registrations can be made online.

To enquire about in-house courses please contact Melanie Holland, Practice Director – MetaPM Learning, on 1800 800 436 or email mholland@metapm.com.au