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Introduction:
This 3-day, instructor-led course is intended for individuals who are interested in expanding their knowledge base and technical skills about Microsoft Project. 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.
Professional Development Units (PDUs) 21
Audience Profile:
This course is intended for both novice and experienced project managers, managers, schedulers, and other project stake holders who need to incorporate the discipline of project management with Microsoft Project 2016.
Pre-requisites:
There are no prerequisites for this course. However, it is helpful to have taken an introductory project management course, such as PM Foundation to Intermediate Level.
Microsoft Project is not part of the Microsoft Office suite, in order to attend the course you will need MS Project to be installed on your workstation.
Course objectives:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- 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 Levelled 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
Session 1: Introduction to Microsoft Project | |
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Session 2: A Quick and Easy Overview of Managing with Project | |
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Session 3: Setting Up a Project | |
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Session 4: Manually Schedule vs. Auto Schedule | |
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Session 5: Creating a Work Breakdown Structure | |
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Session 6: Identifying Task Relationships | |
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Session 7: Defining Resources within Project | |
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Session 8: Making Work Package Estimates | |
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Session 9: Creating an Initial Schedule | |
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Session 10: Create a Resource Levelled Schedule | |
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Session 11: Managing the Project | |
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Session 12: Formatting Output and Printing Reports | |
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Session 13: Managing Multiple Projects | |
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Session 14: Advanced Topics | |
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Session 15: Summary | |
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Associated certifications and exam:
On successful completion of this course students will receive a Torque IT attendance certificate.

Microsoft Overview
Delivering Winning Projects through Microsoft Project…
Make project management easy and collaborate from virtually anywhere with the right tools for project managers, project teams and decision makers.
Microsoft Project is a project management software program, that is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.
Microsoft Project is a powerful program that helps you plan and manage a range of projects. From meeting crucial deadlines and budgets to selecting the right resources, Microsoft Project offers more intuitive experiences to help you be more productive and realize better results. Whether you are already comfortable working in Project and want to learn about new features in the latest Project version or are new to Project, this course provides invaluable hand-on experience so that you can plan, track and manage projects.