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Project Management

Managing Projects with Microsoft Office Project 2007

Overview
Skills Taught
Audience		 Prerequisites
Outline
Duration: 30 hours
Skill Level: Intermediate
Certifications: MCTS: Managing Projects with Microsoft Office Project 2007
24 PDUs for Certified PMP
Delivery Type: Expert Encore

 

Description
Managing Projects with Microsoft Office Project 2007 is designed to provide in-depth understanding of collecting, analyzing and reporting project data using Microsoft’s software. The curriculum covers critical project management topics like creating and controlling schedules, using work breakdown structure (WBS) codes, leveling resources, monitoring costs against baselines and reporting progress.

This series includes other topics that can increase the efficiency of a project manager such as creating templates, creating customized forms and managing data across multiple projects. The goal of this course is to make tracking time, cost and resources easy so that project managers can focus on successful project completion.

Skills Taught
After completing this course, students will be able to:
  • Define general work times for a project
  • Create a task list and set durations
  • Set milestone tasks
  • Assign work resource and material resources to a task
  • Level resources
  • Add resource and material costs
  • Create a baseline
  • Format and print a report
  • Save a project as a template
  • Customize fields and forms
  • Create a work breakdown structure (WBS) code
  • Import and export data
  • Update actual work for a project
  • Update the actual start and finish dates for a task
  • Update percentages for a task
  • View critical paths for projects and subprojects
  • Create an external dependency

Audience
This course is recommended for any person who is involved in tracking, analyzing or reporting project performance. Individuals who have already or are interested in pursuing a project based certification such as Project Management Professional (PMP®) will benefit from the interweaving of project processes and Microsoft tools. This course also provides the information necessary to pass the exam towards Microsoft certification.

Prerequisites
To fully benefit from this course, students should have an intermediate understanding of projects and an intermediate understanding of computer technology from an end-users perspective. Computer networking skills are not required.

Outline
Module 1: Creating and Designing a Project
  • Lesson One: Basic Concepts in Project Management
  • Lesson Two: Introducing Office Project 2007
  • Lesson Three: Using Help in Project 2007
  • Lesson Four: Creating a Project
  • Lesson Five: Defining a Project
  • Lesson Six: Entering Project Tasks
  • Lesson Seven: Organizing Project Tasks
  • Lesson Eight: Scheduling Project Tasks
  • Lesson Nine: Adding Links, Constraints, and Information to Tasks

Module 2: Specifying and Assigning Resources in Project 2007

  • Lesson One: Specifying Resources and Work Times
  • Lesson Two: Assigning Resources
  • Lesson Three: Changing and Controlling the Schedule
  • Lesson Four: Leveling Over-allocated Resource
  • Lesson Five: Managing Costs

Module 3: Tracking and Reporting Progress

  • Lesson One: Understanding Baselines
  • Lesson Two: Tracking Basics
  • Lesson Three: Preparing for Tracking
  • Lesson Four: Checking Progress
  • Lesson Five: Selecting a View or Report
  • Lesson Six: Changing Views and Reports
  • Lesson Seven: Formatting and Printing a Report

Module 4: Advanced Customization in MS Project 2007

  • Lesson One: Customizing Settings and Toolbars in Project 2007
  • Lesson Two: Customizing Templates in Project 2007
  • Lesson Three: Customizing Fields and Forms in Project 2007
  • Lesson Four: Customizing Tasks and Resources in Project 2007
  • Lesson Five: Using WBS Codes in Project 2007

Module 5: Project Data Management and Performance

  • Lesson One: Importing and Exporting Data 2007
  • Lesson Two: Sorting Project Information in Project 2007
  • Lesson Three: Applying Filters and Group in Project 2007
  • Lesson Four: Updating Project Information
  • Lesson Five: Updating Actual Costs
  • Lesson Six: Consolidating Projects in Project 2007
  • Lesson Seven: Sharing and Consolidating Resources in Project 2007
  • Lesson Eight: Creating Dependencies across Projects in Project 2007

Included Labs

  • Creating a New Project
  • Defining and administering tasks
  • Working with Resources
  • Administering Costs and Resources
  • Tracking Your Work
  • Modifying Views and Printing Reports
  • Customizing a Project in Project 2007
  • Customizing a Project Structure in Project 2007
  • Organizing Project Information in Project 2007
  • Updating a Project
  • Working in a Multi-Project Environment