Microsoft (MS) Project Advanced
This session is aimed at Project Managers / Project Administrators and people who are currently using MS Project at a basic level and who wish to increase their skills and develop more robust and complex plans. This workshop covers;
- resolving resource over allocation,
- using shared resources across several plans,
- creating a “top project” to view of all plans and
- using reports and dashboards.
A working knowledge of MS Project is assumed.
Course Content
The Advanced MS Project is over two Modules (each 2.5 hours in duration) which cover:
Module 1: - Essential Steps for Creating and Maintaining a Project Plan
- Essential Steps for creating a Project Plan
- Manual versus Auto Scheduled Tasks
- MS Project Default Settings
- Customising the Settings
- Task Maintenance
- Importance of the Project Summary task & showing Outline Numbering
- Task Types & Effort Driven explained
- Recurring Tasks
- Splitting Tasks
- Applying time constraints and deadlines to tasks
- Highlighting / Filtering and Grouping tasks
- Attaching Notes and Hyperlinks to tasks
- Views and Tables
- Customising Views and Tables
- Using the Organiser to copy Calendars / Views / Tables to Global.MPT and other plans
- Resources
- Work & Material Resources
- Entering & Editing Resources
- Assigning & Reassigning Resources
- Grouping Resources
- Adjusting a Resource’s Calendar
- Attach Notes/Hyperlinks to Resources
- Resource Over-allocations
- Resolving Resource Over-allocations
- Resource Levelling
- Setting the Project Baselines
- Setting a Baseline
- Clearing the Baseline
- Viewing the Baseline
- Using multiple Baselines
Module 2: - Custom Fields and Reporting
- Custom Fields
- Using Custom Fields
- Calculated / Formula Fields
- Icon Fields
- Project Progress
- Marking Tasks as Complete
- Using the Status Date for updating
- Comparing Current with Baseline
- Reports
- Using the predesigned Reports
- Customising a Report
- Creating a New Report
- Shared Resources
- Creating a Resource Pool Sharing Resources across multiple Projects
- Viewing Resource allocation across multiple Projects
- Communicating the Project
- Capturing the Gantt Chart as an Image File
- Using the Timeline View
- Exporting the Timeline View
- Export Project Data to Excel
- Templates
- Creating and Using Templates
- Master Projects
- Creating a “Top” Project
- Inserting Sub Projects
- Linking Tasks to External Projects
- Summary & Review
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