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Hands-On Microsoft Project: Managing Multiple and Complex Projects
Course: 249
Type: Hands-On Training
Duration: 2 Days
You Will Learn How To
- Leverage Microsoft Project Professional tools and techniques in a multiproject environment
- Reorganize large or complex projects into master and subprojects
- Optimize resource assignments across projects and resolve over allocations
- Track schedule, completeness and budget on complex projects and for distributed teams
- Connect project managers, teams and data across the organization
- Integrate Microsoft Access and Excel to facilitate data sharing and accessibility
Course Benefits Project managers are often required to maintain complex or multiple projects with shared resources and performance data. This course provides the advanced skills and experience to manage multiple or complex projects with Microsoft Project Professional. You learn to create cross-project links, develop shared resources, and track and report status across multiple projects.Who Should Attend Project managers and anyone responsible for managing multiple projects. Microsoft Project experience--including linking project tasks, creating resources and saving a baseline--at the level of Course 299, "Microsoft Project Comprehensive Introduction," is assumed.Hands-On Training Workshops are completed using Microsoft Project Professional 2007 but are also applicable to those using Project 2003. Exercises include:
- Creating a master project, inserting subprojects and establishing cross-project task dependencies
- Customizing a Global Template to promote consistency
- Building project and subproject templates and views
- Populating a shared resource pool
- Assigning resources across multiple subprojects
- Baselining and tracking multiple projects
- Employing Outlook to assist in updating progress
- Integrating other third-party applications
Course 249 Content
- Microsoft Project, Portfolio and program standards and terms
- Microsoft Project Professional for complex and multiple projects
- Identifying essential project prerequisites
- Using the PMO to establish standards
- Setting standards for Microsoft Project Professional
- Applying a consistent feature set throughout the organization
- Controlling calendars, views and fields
- Adopting a robust multiple-file management system
- Customizing the Global Template with Organizer
- Deploying the Global Template
- Compiling composite projects with embedding
- Utilizing existing project plans
- Defining project hierarchy by inserting subprojects into a master project
- Linking tasks across projects
- Ensuring consistency between projects inserted in the master project
- Applying best practices for master and subprojects
- Selecting preferred resource types: named, generic and sets
- Grouping resources to establish management boundaries
- Identifying and resolving conflicts
- Viewing assignments across projects
- Resourcing projects based upon availability
- Prioritizing subprojects and tasks
- Leveling and smoothing subprojects and tasks using priorities
- Allowing for non-project work
- Meaningful metrics: measuring schedule, deliverable completeness and budget
- Baselining projects and subprojects
- Tracking by tasks, assignments and teams when the schedule is the prime concern
- Tracking assignments when the precision of schedule, work or costs is essential
- Applying team tracking to effectively work with highly dynamic teams
- Evaluating the implications of different tracking methods
- Analyzing and evaluating progress
- Determining schedule slippage
- Making adjustments and taking corrective action
- Practical guidelines for tracking complex projects
- Integrating with third-party applications, such as Timesheets
- Employing Outlook to improve communication with team members
- Facilitating updates from local or distributed team members
- Transferring data to Access and Excel
- Distributing data from multiple projects
- Reporting schedule and cost progress
- Customizing views and reports
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