This three-day instructor-led course is intended for individuals who are interested in expanding their knowledge base and technical skills with Microsoft Project. The course begins with a quick review of the basic concepts and leads students through all the functions they’ll need to plan and manage a small to medium-size project, including how to level resources and capture both cost and schedule progress.
It is meant to be a follow-on to our Microsoft Project Level 1 course and provides additional practice with the tool, a deeper exploration of the advanced techniques, and more time reviewing project management concepts important to the successful planning and delivery of projects on time and within budget.
Audience profile
This course is intended for novice and experienced project managers, managers, schedulers, and other project stakeholders who need to incorporate the discipline of project management with Microsoft Project 2019.
Prerequisites
While this course does provide a review of the basic features of Microsoft Project, individuals should have taken the first course in this series: Microsoft Project Level 1: Comprehensive Introduction or have some prior experience using Microsoft Project. There are no prerequisites for this course. However, it is helpful to have taken an introductory project management course, such as Versatile’s Principles of Project Management.
At course completion
- Understand the discipline of project management as it applies to using Microsoft Project 2019.
- Create a Work Breakdown Structure.
- Identify Task Types & Relationships.
- Define Resources within Project.
- Make Work Package Estimates.
- Create an Initial Schedule.
- Create a Resource Leveled Schedule.
- Create Projects from templates, Excel files.
- Create Global templates.
- Create formulas and graphical indicators.
- The steps to record a macro.
- Format Output and Print Reports.
- Integrate Multiple Projects.
- Set up a Project with a Calendar, Start date, and scheduling method.
- Understand Manually Schedule vs. Auto Schedule.
- Manage multiple projects.
- Be able to create a master project list with shared resources.
Course Outline
- Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft Project
- Module 2: A Quick and Easy Overview of Managing with Project
- Module 3: Setting Up a Project
- Module 4: Manually Schedule vs. Auto Schedule
- Module 5: Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
- Module 6: Identifying Task Relationships
- Module 7: Defining Resources within Project
- Module 8: Making Work Package Estimates
- Module 9: Creating an Initial Schedule
- Module 10: Create a Resource Leveled Schedule
- Module 11: Managing the Project
- Module 12: Formatting Output and Printing Reports
- Module 13: Managing Multiple Projects
- Module 14: Advanced Topics
- Module 15: Summary