MS Project 2016
Introduction
This workshop serves as an introduction to using Microsoft Project. It is suitable for anyone with a need to use project management software such as team members, planners, project leaders, project managers or other scheduling practitioners.
This workshop is kept up to date with the framework of knowledge outlined by the Project Management Institute’s (PMI®’s) Practice Standard for Scheduling and A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). This course will provide 16 PDUs for PMP Certified Professionals as their Continued Certification Requirement (CCR) and 16 Contact Hours to PMP Examinees.
How participants will benefit from the course:
You’ll learn to:
• Define key project management concepts and terms
• Effectively navigate the user interface and interpret common views
• Configure essential elements of a new schedule
• Enter and modify a task list
• Record unplanned or partially planned activities
• Set dependencies between tasks
• Create a resource list and generate assignments
• Apply individual and global formats to views and charts
• Create a summary or executive timeline
• Prepare the schedule for printing, reporting and sharing through other file formats
• 16 Project Management Contact Hours for PMP Exam
• 16 PDUs (Category A from DaySpring) for existing PMP Certification Holders
Methodology
PowerPoint Presentation, Handouts, Hands on Lab Practice, Brainstorming
Contents of Training:
Project Management - Intro
Basics on Project Management
Practice Standard for Scheduling (Based PMI’s Practice Standard)
Planning a Project
Taking Microsoft Project a Test Drive
Product Breakdown Structure, Work Breakdown Structure - Breaking work into task-sized chunks
Estimating Task Work and Duration
Setting Up a Project Schedule
Making a Schedule that is Easy to Maintain
Project Planning – More Than Creating a Schedule
Building a Team for Your Project
Connecting Resources to Tasks
Does the Schedule Work?
Setting Up a Project Budget
Refining a Project Schedule
Saving the Project Plan
Projects in Action
Tracking Progress
Evaluating Project Performance
Managing Change
Reporting on Projects
Closing a Project
Project Power Tools
Working on Multiple Projects
Exchanging Data between Programs
Linking and Embedding
Project in the Internet
Customizing Project (Viewing what you want, Defining your own fields, Customizing the Ribbon and Quick Access Bar, Reusable Project: Templates)
