Microsoft Project 2016/2013 – Basic Course

This course is assigned for all, who want to familiarize with Microsoft Project and prepare and control different kinds of projects. The training is suitable for all self-tought who already work with MS Project, but only use the basic functions and want to expand their skills for resource planning and monitoring their load in the project.

You will learn the basic planning theory, to initialize the project file, prepare the structure of project, insert new tasks, enter their time constraints and interdependencies, identify and assign the necessary resources to understand the logic of calculation work and its influence on subsequent changes to the plan. Locate and solve resource overallocation, check costs, save baseline, update and trace project progress, assess variances. Furthermore, the participants try different outputs from the project and will learn how to create and modify new views, tables, fields. Participants will check new knowledges using various case studies.

Basic knowledge of Windows

Introduction

• Basic notions
• Microsoft Project Enviroment

Establishing project

• Project initialization
• Working time configuration - calendars

Work with tasks

• Automatic/manual tasks
• Task definition
• Project Outline
• Tasks bindings
• Task constraings and deadlines
• Timeline
• Critical path of project

Work with resources

• Resource types (material, employees, cost)
• Resource definition
• Resource time constraints
• Resource allocation
• Resource load monitoring
• Resource overloading solving
• Team planner

Costs

• Costs types
• Task costs, source costs, project costs
• Time-ordered data

Project startup and management

• Baseline settings
• Solving plan changes
• Project monitoring
• Reports, analysis, charts

Multiple projects cooperation

• Source sharing
• Projects bindings

Enviroment modification

• Tables, Views, filters, groups definitions
• Work with templates
• Own field creating
• Own calculations
• Report modifications

Export and import

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