The course provides project managers with the knowledge and skills to use Microsoft Project Server, an organization's collaborative project management tool.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- use Microsoft Project Server for project management;
- improve the quality of project implementation.
Audience Profile
Project managers, as well as specialists involved in the implementation of projects.
Before attending this course, students must have:
- mandatory attendance of the course “NT-PM(I). Project management using Microsoft Project” or equivalent knowledge;
- it is desirable to attend the course “NT-PM101. Project management methodology and business practice specifics” or equivalent knowledge.
- experience with Microsoft SharePoint.
- General overview of project collaboration with Project server
- How a user interacts with Project server
- Fundamentals of using Project Server project managers
- Project Web App (PWA) Interface
- Working with projects
- Create a new project
- Working with the project using PWA, describing tasks, assigning resources, saving a baseline, and other actions
- Saving, publishing, editing, retrieving and checking in projects
- Work in the project center. Project details
- Page structure
- Page setup
- View selection
- Export tabular data to Excel
- Working with resources
- Adding resources to the project team. Group building
- Assign resources to tasks
- Resource Center page structure. Customizing the appearance of the page. View selection
- View resource assignments
- View availability information for a resource
- General principles for exchanging assignment data between a resource and a project manager
- Work with assigned tasks
- The structure of the task page, customizing its appearance
- Assignment details page
- Resource Task Updates
- Creation of new tasks by the resource. Assign yourself to existing tasks. Task Reassignment
- Supervisor work with task updates
- General provisions
- Structure of the approvals page, customizing its appearance
- Getting detailed information about updating a task
- Accept and reject updates. Project update
- Viewing the history of task changes
- Using the Project Website Workspace
- Work with documents, risks and project issues