MS Project for Project Management (Advanced Level)

MS Project for Project Management (Advanced Level)

Course Description

MS Project is a powerful tool for scheduling, costing, and planning. This tool is being used by Project Managers, Project Management Specialists, and Project Coordinators to plan and track project deliverables. This course can be delivered into three parts – Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced.

While learning the fundamentals of the MS Project, you will also be provided with a sample project that the participants will use to understand the concepts, just like setting up, planning, and tracking a project.

Advanced Learning Programs will introduce and explain PM concepts to appreciate how powerful MS Project can be as a project management tool.

This course aims to provide the participants with Project Management concepts and MS Project tools. It discusses the Project Plan, Tracking, Earned Value Analysis, Customization, and Reports.

Course Objectives

1. To discuss the Project Plan and how this can be used for managing a project.
2. To explain the importance of tracking and how MS Project is used to track project deliverables.
3. To understand Earned Value Analysis and the different financial tools used in project management.
4. To customize and personalize your MS Project experience.
5. To generate status reports to be used for providing updates to stakeholders.

Course Modules

Lesson 1 – Project Plan

• Constraints and Deadlines
• Critical Path
• Slack
• Notes
• Timeline
• Baseline
• Replacing a Resource

Lesson 2 – Tracking

• Basics
• Automatically Updating a Project
• Manually Updating a Project
• By Using Work Hour Data
• By Using Percentage Complete Data
• Dealing with Delays

Lesson 3 – Earned Value Analysis

• Basics
• Automatically Updating a Project
• Manually Updating a Project
• By Using Work Hour Data
• By Using Percentage Complete Data
• Dealing with Delays

Lesson 4 – MS Project Customization

• Basics
• Automatically Updating a Project
• Manually Updating a Project
• Using Work Hour Data
• By Using Percentage Complete Data
• Dealing with Delays

Lesson 5 – Reports

• New Report
• Dashboards
• Resources
• Costs
• In Progress