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MS Project Made Simple: A Beginner's Tutorial
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MS Project Made Simple: A Beginner's Tutorial

Managing Projects Using Ms Project (All levels)
Highest Rated
Created byObalim Esedebe Ciel Academy
Last updated 4/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Create a project schedule
  • Set the Project Baseline
  • Manage projects using the Microsoft® Project 2016 application
  • Track the project progress using various features, throughout the project life cycle
  • Perform Resource Loading and Levelling
  • Manage resources and assignments within a project
  • Understand Critical Path Method (CPM) Fundamentals and how it impacts the project
  • Create Customized Reports as per the requirements of the project stakeholders
  • Create a task-based schedule for the project Share project information

Course content

1 section • 20 lectures • 6h 29m total length

  • Lesson: Introduction37:00
  • Lesson 2, Part 1: Guided Tour28:27

    A guided tour of the Microsoft Project interface explains starting a blank project or using templates, and using the quick access toolbar, ribbon, tabs, timeline, and detailed view.

  • Lesson 2, Part 2: Guided Tour18:46
  • Lesson 3, Part 1: Starting a Project7:36

    Launch Microsoft Project and create a new project from blank, existing, or Excel, using the backstage view and import wizard to map tasks, resources, and assignments.

  • Lesson 3 Part 2: Starting a Project7:55
  • Lesson 3, Part 3: Starting a Project9:03

    Explore how to switch between views in Microsoft Project to reveal different project details, including network diagrams, calendars, timelines, and task sheets for identifying critical paths and resources.

  • Lesson 4, Part 1: Creating a New Project15:04
  • Lesson 4, Part 2: Creating a New Project17:41
  • Lesson 4, Part 3: Entering Activities and Milestones26:56
  • Lesson 4, Part 4: Adding Durations and Predecessors19:03

    Define dependencies in Microsoft Project by using the predecessor column and link button to establish finish-to-start, finish-to-finish, start-to-start, and start-to-finish relationships, and set durations in days, weeks, or months.

  • Lesson 4, Part 5: Adding Notes, Hyperlinks, Critical Path and Slack.18:46
  • Lesson 5, Part 1: Setting up Resources25:06
  • Lesson 5 Part 2: Assigning Resources13:58
  • Lesson 5, Part 3: Effort Driven Tasks and Other Views19:54

    Explore how effort driven tasks speed up projects by adding resources, compare fixed duration versus fixed units, and learn to use crashing and top-down and bottom-up estimates in Microsoft Project.

  • Lesson 6 Part 1: Resource Levelling and Calendar24:56
  • Lesson 6, Part 2: Baselines9:32

    Learn how baselines in Microsoft Project capture a snapshot of your plan to compare against actual progress, view baselines in the Gantt chart, and track schedule variance.

  • Lesson 7: Updating Actuals and Tracking.39:04
  • Lesson 8: Earned Value Management and M&C16:48
  • Lesson 9: Reporting, Timeline and Printing our Plan.9:59

    Learn to create and customize timelines, build and view project reports with dashboards and cost overviews, and print or export Microsoft Project reports as PDF or Excel.

  • Lesson 10: Fine Tuning Your Schedule24:13

    Learn to fine tune your Microsoft Project schedule by applying constraints, managing dependencies, customizing timescales and timeline views, and aligning with baselines.

Requirements

  • Working knowledge of Project Management concepts and principles.

Description

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the basics of the Microsoft® Project application. It will also focus on advanced project management concepts such as tracking of project progress and advanced task scheduling, project reporting, troubleshooting, and customizing views will be provided by the course. You will also get information on sharing project information, resource pooling and consolidation, along with an update on new features in the Microsoft® Project 2016 application. Demos are provided to show how to work with the Microsoft® Project application and get hands-on experience. Ciel Consulting’s training in Microsoft Project 2016 enables the users to analyze and plan project resources, budgets, and schedules. This certification provided by Microsoft® is ideal for those who are looking to advance their career in project development.

This course is well suited for all professionals who manage projects as well as program managers. This course will help them to better manage their projects using Microsoft project 2016. Managers, schedulers and others who are using this tool to manage their projects should also do this course and get certified to increase their efficiency and prove to employers that they are worth their onions.

other benefits of taking this course include:

Managing projects from start to finish using the Microsoft® Project 2016.

Managing resources and assignments within a project

Tracking project progress using various built-in features

Creating a task-based schedule for the project

Sharing project information

Who this course is for:

  • Project Planner
  • Program Manager
  • Project Director
  • Delivery Leader/Manager
  • Project Schedulers
  • Managers

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