55205 - Mastering Microsoft Project 2016

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Course Overview

The course begins with 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.

Course Length: 3 Days

Audience: Users who need to integrate Project Management with Microsoft Project

Prerequisites: None

What You're Going To Learn

  • Understand the discipline of project management as it applies to using Microsoft Project 2016
  • 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 and 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

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Course Outline

1 – INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT PROJECT

  • Describe how Project relates to the discipline of Project management.
  • Learn what the new features are in Project 2016.
  • Navigate to the primary views available using the Ribbon.
  • Choose Views that display task, resource, or assignment information.
  • Select table within views to change the information that is available to see and edit.
  • Relate the features of Project to the 5 steps for building a plan in Project.
  • Lab 1: Introduction to Mastering Microsoft Project

2 – A QUICK AND EASY OVERVIEW OF MANAGING WITH PROJECT

  • Create a new project and prepare it for data entry.
  • Enter project tasks.
  • Sequence the tasks.
  • Define resources.
  • Estimate Task duration and assign resources.
  • Baseline the project.
  • Track project progress.
  • Lab 1: Creating a Basic Project with a template
  • Lab 2: Creating a Basic Project

3 – SETTING UP A PROJECT

  • Use multiple methods to create a new project from an Excel file and a SharePoint Tasks list.
  • Establish one or more calendars to constrain resource availability.
  • Configure Project to calculate the schedule from the Start Date forward, or from the Finish Date backward.
  • Lab 1: Setting Up a Project

4 – MANUALLY SCHEDULE VS. AUTO SCHEDULE

  • Students practice switching tasks between Manually Schedule and Auto Schedule modes. By switching modes, students learn the impact made on the project schedule and the individual tasks.
  • Lab 1: Explore Task Modes

5 – CREATING A WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE

  • Build and use summary and subordinate tasks.
  • Understand and use milestones.
  • Develop WBS Outlines.
  • Assign completion criteria.
  • Evaluate the WBS.
  • Understand and use WBS templates.
  • Lab 1: Manipulate a WBS
  • Lab 2: Supporting the Project Plan

6 – IDENTIFYING TASK RELATIONSHIPS

  • Understand the different types of task relationships.
  • Understand and use various methods to create relationships.
  • Determine and display task sequence.
  • Understand and use lag, lead, and delay.
  • Understand the new feature of Task Paths.
  • Lab 1: Display the sequence

7 – DEFINING RESOURCES WITHIN PROJECT

  • Define resource types.
  • Define individual resources that will be used on the project.
  • Record the cost (s) of using each type of resource.
  • Record the limit of availability for each type of resource by establishing a resource calendar and defining the maximum units of that resource.
  • Lab 1: Resource Calendar and Availability

8 – MAKING WORK PACKAGE ESTIMATES

  • Enter estimates for duration and costs for each task.
  • Distinguish between task types and describe when each is appropriate.
  • Describe the relationship between work, units, and duration.
  • Describe the way Effort Driven scheduling is affected by work, units, and duration.
  • Assign tasks to resources using the Team Planner view.
  • Lab 1: Work, Duration and Labor

9 – CREATING AN INITIAL SCHEDULE

  • Calculate float and identify a project’s critical path.
  • Understand and identify task constraints.
  • Create milestones.
  • Use the Task Inspector to troubleshoot the initial schedule.
  • Lab 1: Calculating an Initial schedule

10 – CREATE A RESOURCE LEVELED SCHEDULE

  • Adjust a project schedule to account for limited people and other resources.
  • View the overall cost and schedule of a project.
  • Identify resources that have been over allocated for a project schedule.
  • Use multiple ways to adjust tasks and assignments to remove over allocation for any resource.
  • Lab 1: Resource Leveling

11 – MANAGING THE PROJECT

  • Learn how to set a baseline.
  • Lean how to enter and track project performance data.
  • Learn how to apply different tracking methods.
  • Learn how to perform a variance analysis on a project.
  • Lab 1: The Baseline
  • Lab 2: Baselining & Tracking Performance
  • Lab 3: Variance

12 – FORMATTING OUTPUT AND PRINTING REPORTS

  • Print
  • Views
  • Formats
  • Sorting
  • Filtering
  • Grouping
  • Custom Fields
  • Reporting
  • Other File Formats
  • Lab 1: Use the Grouping Feature
  • Lab 2: Create Reports in Project

13 – MANAGING MULTIPLE PROJECTS

  • Learn how to use common resources among multiple projects.
  • Learn how to link tasks between multiple projects.
  • Learn how to create a consolidated view of multiple projects.
  • Lab 1: Identifying Over allocated Resources from a Resource Pool and Consolidated File

14 – ADVANCED TOPICS

  • Learn how to customize the Ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar.
  • Learn how to customize WBS numbering.
  • Learn the concepts of Formulas and Graphical indicators.
  • Learn the purpose of the Global template and Organizer.
  • Learn how to use Task Deadlines.
  • Learn how to record a Macro.
  • Lab 1: Recording a Macro in Project

15 – SUMMARY

  • Learn how to access the Office App Store

 

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