Managing Projects With Microsoft® Project Professional Courses and other IT courses from TEKsystems Education Services

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Course Code:	MQ 566
Course Abstract:	This course teaches participants how to use Microsoft Project Professional to successfully create, track, manage, and modify project schedules and resource pools. Participants will be introduced to industry best practices, tips and tricks for working with MS Project Professional. Our hands‐on training is extremely practical and gives participants confidence to work with this very powerful, but often misunderstood and poorly used, project management tool.
Audience:	This course is designed for individuals who are Project managers, project team members, project schedulers, and anyone who has used Microsoft® Project Professional and had a hard time getting it to do what they wanted.
Duration:	2 days
Learning Outcomes:	Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to: > Create, manage, and update effective project schedules > Create and manage resources, resource pools and assignments > Learn the do’s and don’ts of working with Microsoft® Project Professional > Create useful views for tracking, dashboards, printing, task usage, etc. > Formatting tricks for automating critical path tracking > Use reporting functions more effectively
Course Topics:	Day 1 Effective Use of Microsoft Project • MS Project Overview • Avoiding the pitfalls of working with MS Project • Creating project schedules, segments, milestones • Creating task relationships & dependencies • Setting task constraints and outlining Applying Resources and Calendars • Creating and utilizing resource pools • Applying layers of calendars • Utilizing project views • Formatting schedule layouts • Utilizing project reports • Understanding printing Day 2 Customizing for Better Management Results • Using filters, tables, details and groups • Creating views, filters, tables, and groups • MS Project scheduling methodologies • Utilizing effort‐driven scheduling Managing and Tracking of Projects • Utilizing scheduling methods to shorten the critical path of a project • Utilizing MS Project Tools and Views to resolve resource conflicts • Advanced resource scheduling techniques • Managing costs, tracking baselines • Tracking completion of actual work between tasks and resources • Applying resource contours for forecasting and analyzing resource availability • Managing and viewing planned and actual durations, costs and schedules Working with External Data & Applications • Linking data between applications • Importing & exporting data • Hyperlinking and web pages • Utilizing business analysis templates
Prerequisites:	None

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