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MICROSOFT PROJECT  - Essentials

Course Aims:

Participants will learn all the fundamentals of project planning and management, including task scheduling, techniques, resource management and tracking progress.

Contents:

Introduction to Project Management

Outlining and Planning
What is Microsoft Project
Terminology
The Project Screen
Menus and Toolbars
Entry Bar and Status Bar
Getting Help

File Operations

Save, Save As, Close and Open a Project
Sending a Project

Creating a Project

Entering Task Data
Using the Mouse on the Gantt Chart
Working with Views
Tracking your Project

Techniques

Durations and Milestones
Task Dependencies
Lag
Network Planning
Setting Deadlines
Critical Path Analysis
Slack
Date Constraints
Displaying Task Information
Calendars

Resource Management

Defining work material resource
Resource Allocation
Displaying Resource Information

Tracking Your Project

Updating your Project
Printing Reports

Formatting

Font and Text Styles
Bars and Bar Styles
The Gantt Chart Wizard
Gridlines and Timescales

Target Audience:

Project Managers and others who are responsible for planning and managing projects.

Assumed Knowledge:

Familiarity with Microsoft applications is useful.  Knowledge of project management theory is helpful, but not essential.

Duration:  2 Days

Suggested Follow up Course:

Microsoft Project Specifics
 

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