Microsoft® Project:
Microsoft® Project Tips:
Practical tips to help you increase the value of MS Project as a tool for project management.
MS Project Tips ....
Using a case study and hands on techniques, students will learn to go inside the software and control how it functions.
One of the most common complaints about MS Project is “It keeps changing my numbers on me.” This course is designed to share with the students how the various functions work and how to setup the program so it “works their way.”
Students will learn how to create custom Views including Gantt Charts, Tables, Filters, Groups and Reports. Some of the customized Views are designed to make entering data easier. Other Views, which may have associated Filters and Groupings, are designed to enhance reporting and presentation capabilities. The student materials will contain examples of Microsoft® Project screens as well as explanatory material and directions for completing the exercises. These materials are also designed to serve as both a reference and a self paced tutorial for the student after they complete the course.
Who Should Attend
This course is intended for students who have had some prior experience with Microsoft® Project and wish to progress beyond making simple Gantt Charts schedules to understanding the true capability of the software as a professional planning and tracking tool. To achieve the full benefit of this course, attendees should have background knowledge in the fundamentals of Project Management as a discipline.
What Will Be Learned:
- How to tailor the Option settings to gain more control over how MS Project makes its calculations
- How to customize Views, Tables, Filters, Groups and Text Reports
- How Filter, Sort and Group using Custom Fields
- How the use the Organizer to copy custom views etc. from file to file
- How Task Types, Durations, Resource Work, Resource Units (percent per day allocation) and Calendars interact to effect schedules
- Which Views to use for simple, speedy data entry
- How to use the Gantt Chart to analyze the Critical Path and implement schedule compression techniques
- How Resource Leveling works and when to use it
- How to create Baselines and record Project Progress accurately
- How to generate graphs and reports showing variance from the Baseline
- Reports to use for management.
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