Microsoft Project - Intermediate
With Microsoft Project, you will develop practical project planning and management skills. Learn how to create project plans, schedule tasks, allocate resources, track progress, manage budgets, and generate reports to ensure projects are delivered efficiently and successfully in the workplace.
Course Overview
Welcome to Microsoft® Project – Beginner. This course is designed to familiarize you with the basic features and functions of Microsoft Project Professional so you can use it effectively and efficiently in a real-world environment.
This course covers the critical knowledge and skills a project manager needs to create a project plan with Project during the planning phase of a project. In other words, if your supervisor assigns you to lead a project, this course will enable you to draft a project plan with Project and share it with your supervisor (and others) for review and approval.
Course Overview
Duration
6 Hours. Training times can be arranged in more manageable sessions of 3 hours over 2 days.
Delivery Method
Who Is This Course For?
This course is designed for a person with an understanding of project management concepts and who is responsible for creating and maintaining project plans. The course will give the student a fundamental understanding of Microsoft Project necessary to create and save project plans.
Prerequisites
To ensure your success in this course, you should have basic project management knowledge and skills. The following Logical Operations course can help you in meeting this requirement: Project Management Fundamentals (Second Edition).
You should also have basic knowledge and skills for using any current Windows® operating system—preferably Windows 10. The following Logical Operations courses can help you meet this requirement:
- Using Microsoft® Windows® 10
Finally, you should have competency in using other Microsoft Office applications—preferably Office. You can take any of the Office course offerings from Logical Operations to attain the requisite knowledge and skills.
Cost
R2 500.00 Per Learner
Course Content
1. Getting Started with Microsoft Project
- Identify project management concepts
- Navigate the Microsoft Project environment
2. Defining a Project
- Create a new project plan
- Define a project
- Assign a project calendar
3. Creating and Organizing Tasks
- Add tasks to a project plan
- Import tasks from other programs
- Create a Work Breakdown Structure
- Define task relationships
- Schedule tasks
4. Managing Project Plan Resources
- Add resources to a project plan
- Create a resource calendar
- Enter costs for resources
- Assign resources to tasks
- Resolve resource conflicts
5. Finalizing a Project Plan
- Optimize a project plan
- Set a baseline
- Share a project plan
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