
Learn to create and share a resource pool across multiple projects in Microsoft Project 2019, manage over allocations, and use resource usage views to track resource assignments.
Learn how to create a master project by inserting sub projects, link cross-project dependencies, and manage resource pools to keep charity events and sports day on schedule.
Explore practical approaches to resource sharing and consolidation in Microsoft Project 2019, including a shared resource pool, master and subprojects, and cloud storage, with emphasis on complexity and rules.
Create a custom task field rag using a dummy text field and a look-up table with G, A, and R values to track status and enable filtering by G.
Explore outline numbering and WBS codes in Microsoft Project 2019. Learn how automatic outline numbers map to tasks and how to customize WBS codes for consistent project identification.
Configure a resource outline code as a custom field renamed to charge code, use a lock up with a simple mask, and group by charge code to analyze costs.
Learn how to use fixed task costs in Project 2019 by recording fixed costs in the cost table, including accruals and notes for consultants with cost per use.
Learn how to create and assign budget costs at the project summary task, compare budgeted costs with actuals, and time-phase budget costs to track progress against the baseline.
Explore how overtime can shorten a testing task in Microsoft Project 2019 Advanced, balancing 400 hours across three resources to finish by December at added cost.
Learn how to model variable material costs in a project plan by assigning concrete, a pump, and fuel to a footing task, showing cost changes with duration.
Learn how to customize Microsoft Project 2019 Advanced tables by selecting, applying, and editing custom and built-in tables, configuring columns, shortcuts, and layout options.
Create and customize views in Microsoft Project 2019 to display the exact data you need. Save, copy, filter, highlight, and organize views—Gantt charts, resource usage, network diagrams, and combination views.
Explore sorting, filtering, and grouping of tasks and resources in Microsoft Project 2019 advanced, including sorting by cost while preserving or breaking outline structure and ensuring auto filters are visible.
Explore how grouping in Microsoft Project 2019 organizes tasks and resources by fields and intervals, from duration and start dates to complete and incomplete tasks, with multi-level grouping.
Explore the reporting features in Project 2019, from dashboards and built in reports to customizing designs, themes, and charts, and learn how to tailor visual reports.
Learn to customize reports in Microsoft Project 2019, including the project overview, start and finish dates, and tables and text boxes formatting.
Discover how to customize reports in Project 2019 by editing filters for upcoming milestones, arranging fields in tables, and configuring percentage complete charts with a category axis and legends.
Explore targeted reporting in project 2019 advanced, featuring cost overview charts, progress versus cost with dual axes, and burn down reports to assess past performance and future trends.
Compare two versions of a project in Microsoft Project 2019 Advanced to identify changes using task and resource tables, custom fields, and the comparison report.
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Conquer your projects and deliver on-time and on-budget by becoming a Microsoft Project 2019 master.
If you're a Project Manager and you've been using Microsoft Project but haven't quite got it doing all the heavy lifting for you, then this Microsoft Project 2019 Advanced online course is for you.
Microsoft Project remains one of the most popular Project Management tools. It's a feature-rich program that has the potential to make your projects run as smoothly as possible. To achieve that you'll need to know some of the advanced MS Project features.
What You'll Learn:
About resource sharing including setting up a resource pool across projects
How to consolidate different projects into a single project
How to set up recurring tasks to save you time
About custom fields and how to automate calculations in a custom field
How Outline and WBS codes work and how to use them in your project
How to properly manage costs including setting fixed costs, budgets, variable costs and overtime
How custom tables and custom views work
Detail on advanced sorting, filtering and grouping
Creating customized reports, charts and how to edit certain elements of a report
About Earned Value Analysis
How to import and export data from Excel, Word and Notepad
Using Macros in Microsoft Project
***Exercise and demo files included***
This course includes:
7.5-hours of video tutorials
49 individual video lectures
Exercise files to practice what you learned
Demo files used by the trainer
Certificate of completion
This course is designed for students that are already experienced Microsoft Project 2019 users and picks up where our Microsoft Project 2019 Beginners course finishes. If you are looking to really supercharge your reports, automate more tasks in MS Project or if you're looking to combine multiple tasks into one, then this is the course for you.
Contents and Overview
This course starts where the Microsoft Project 2019 Beginners course finishes. It assumes you have a good understanding of MS Project 2019 already and you're looking to unlock more advanced features to help you project manage.
If your projects have grown more complex and you require more automation and structure from your project management software than ever before then this MS Project 2019 Advanced course will help you learn MS Project in the detail you need.
We look at shared resource pools in Project, consolidating multiple projects into one, setting up recurring tasks, custom tables and WBS codes before moving onto customized reporting, importing and exporting data to and from Excel and Word into Project and Macros in MS Project.
Each topic is explained with its own professional video that shows you in detail how to properly use the function. With over 7 hours including in this course you'll get a comprehensive understanding of the more complex areas of MS Project 2019.
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“It was really such a great course with step by step approach towards building the required skills and learning of Microsoft Project. The course is very detailed and the tutor made it very easy to follow and learn using all elements of Audio/Visual tools to the extent that makes it as if it is an in-class course not online.
I was able to follow closely with each and every section successfully and attentively.
Highly recommended!”
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“This course is comprehensive without deviating from the specific advanced topics being taught. No word or action is included without calculating whether it is contributing to the lesson. This makes comprehension easy which is critical with the high volume of information. Example .mpp files are useful for working alongside.”
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