The course provides knowledge of the basic principles of development and project management using Microsoft Project. Today it is the most common tool for automating project activities. At the customer's request, the course can be taught for any version of Microsoft Project.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- automate project management work with Microsoft Project
Audience Profile
Project management professionals.
Before attending this course, students must have:
- experience in Windows and MS Office
- course “NT-PM101. Project management methodology and features of business practice” or knowledge of project management theory
- Introduction to project management
- Project Concept
- General principles of project management
- The main stages of working with the project
- Project management automation tools
- General overview of MS Project
- Create a new project
- Creating a new project from scratch and based on a template
- Setting project options
- Working with tasks as part of a project
- Task Concept
- Creating, editing, deleting tasks
- Establishing links between tasks
- Create a task hierarchy
- Task parameters: duration, restrictions, method of calculating labor costs and more
- Special task types: recurring tasks, milestones, interrupted tasks
- An overview of the most typical situations associated with changing job parameters
- Active and inactive tasks
- Manual and automatic planning modes
- resource planning
- Basic concepts
- Resource types
- Resource assignment. Planning "from resources" and "from works"
- Calendars. Set up a resource calendar
- Working with Resource Costs
- Multi-project. Main projects and subprojects. Linking projects through tasks
- Printing design information
- Project environment setup
- Sorting, grouping and filtering data
- Custom fields and structure codes
- Setting up tables and views
- Working with reports
- Project analysis and optimization
- Basic concepts
- Resource overload and its elimination. Automatic resource leveling feature
- Project budget analysis
- Analysis of the project schedule. Critical Path Method
- Risk Analysis
- Project optimization
- Project Execution Management
- Basic concepts
- Working with base plans
- Entering actual parameters
- Project execution analysis
- Project adjustment
- Project Completion