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You Will Learn How To
- Leverage Microsoft Project 2010 to plan and manage project schedules and resources
- Build and optimize your project plan through best practice principles
- Create, modify and organize calendars in order to control the project schedule
- Track progress, update plans and monitor variances between target and actual project deliveries
- Assign resources to tasks and troubleshoot overallocation conflicts
- Structure dashboards and reports to effectively share project data
Course BenefitsProject managers often work within short time frames and with limited resources to successfully complete projects on time, within budget and according to requirements. Microsoft Project 2010 provides a flexible and intuitive solution to help you gain control of your projects. In this course, you learn to effectively create a project plan, track progress, adjust resources and generate dynamic reports in a hands-on learning environment with Microsoft Project 2010.
Who Should AttendAnyone interested in Microsoft Project 2010. Familiarity with project management terminology, such as tasks, resources and critical path, is helpful.
Hands-On TrainingHands-on exercises provide you with practical experience using Microsoft Project 2010 and include:
- Customizing the ribbon interface
- Creating project plans, tasks, summary tasks and milestones
- Constructing and changing task dependencies
- Deploying manual and automatic scheduling techniques
- Controlling project, task and resource calendars
- Setting baselines and tracking progress
- Generating basic and dynamic reports
Course 3702 ContentIntroduction to Microsoft Project 2010
- Overview of project management terms and standards
- Navigating and customizing the ribbon and user interface
- Identifying collaboration possibilities with other toolsets
Creating a New Project Plan
Initiating a project
- Outlining phases, activities and tasks from project goals
- Identifying and gathering prerequisites for the project plan
- Producing a work breakdown structure (WBS)
Planning essentials
- Working through the differences between manual and automatic scheduling
- Conceptualizing and identifying the critical path
- Analyzing and managing slack in the project plan
Building a project plan
- Identifying the relationships between tasks
- Estimating and entering task duration
- Sequencing and linking tasks
- Entering normal tasks, summary tasks, subtasks and milestones
- Adjusting the project schedule to target specific dates
Optimizing the project plan
- Working with task link types
- Implementing lag and lead
- Applying deadline dates to the project plan
- Setting, locating and removing task constraints
Controlling Your Project Plan
Creating and modifying calendars
- Identifying types of calendars
- Revealing the calendar architecture at project, task and resource levels
- Updating existing calendars
- Configuring Project to accurately calculate working and nonworking time
- Changing default calendar options
Applying calendars to projects, tasks and resources
- Assigning calendars appropriately
- Determining updates to your project plan as a result of deploying calendar changes
Sharing project calendars
- Saving calendar changes to the global template
- Sharing and organizing calendars
Keeping Your Project on Track
Preparing for tracking
- Validating the project plan
- Establishing the baseline
Tracking task progress
- Identifying key steps in the tracking process
- Updating the project plan with tracking data
- Analyzing variance against the project plan
Troubleshooting schedule problems
- Reviewing project task updates for timeline problems
- Resolving issues with the project scheduling plan
Managing Project Resources and Assignments
Creating and assigning resources
- Defining work, material and cost resources
- Reviewing cost and budget tracking options
- Handling work resources and assigning them to tasks
- Creating and managing a resource pool
Tracking with resources
- Calculating and managing work effort
- Tracking resource assignments
- Troubleshooting resource assignments
- Predicting task behavior
- Investigating and resolving resource overallocation
Analyzing Project Data and Preparing Reports
Identifying communication needs
- Defining stakeholder groups
- Producing a project communication plan
Creating reports
- Examining basic and dynamic report types
- Selecting data for output
- Designing dashboard indicator reports
- Reporting on deadlines
Interacting with other applications
- Sharing data with the timeline view
- Importing and exporting project data
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"MS Project is a perfect tool to track projects and manage resources. Thank you Learning Tree for the MS Project 2010 course that taught me the tools I needed to resolve an issue in my office... I will be returning for more courses!"
– M. O'Shea
Regulatory Health Project Manager
FDA
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