Mastering Microsoft Project 2010 Training Course
Course 50413
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Course Overview
The three-day 50413 Mastering Microsoft Project 2010 Training Course provides students with the knowledge and skills to plan and manage projects using Microsoft Project 2010. To get the most from any project management software, the user must understand the project management techniques upon which the software is based. The 50413 Mastering Microsoft Project 2010 Training Course presents the most popular project management software in the context of how a project manager will use it. Participants in this course learn the functions of the software and the project management concepts which make the software effective. The 50413 Mastering Microsoft Project 2010 Training Course begins with the basic concepts and leads participants through all the functions they'll need to plan and manage a small to medium-sized project, including how to level resources and capture both cost and schedule progress. Audience
Course 50413: Mastering Microsoft Project 2010 is designed for both novice and experienced Project Managers and projects support personnel who need to apply the discipline of project management using Microsoft Project Professional/Standard 2010. Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to Mastering Microsoft Project This module provides an overview of how the features of Project relate to the job of the project manager. Lessons
Module 2: A Quick and Easy Overview of Managing with Project This module demonstrates the steps required to create and use Project through the life cycle of a project. Lessons
Module 3: Setting Up a Project This module explains how to create a new project and establish the basic constraints that Project will use for its calculations. Lessons
Module 4: Manually Schedule vs. Auto Schedule This module explains how to how to manually schedule project tasks and how to leverage the auto schedule feature. Lessons
Module 5: Creating a Work Breakdown Structure This module explains how to create a useful work breakdown structure and enter it into Project. Lessons
This module explains the rules for establishing dependency links between tasks and presents the features to use Project to establish and display these dependencies. Lessons
Understand the rules for establishing dependency links between tasks and be able to use Project to establish and display these dependencies. Participants will be able to use Project to:
This module explains how to enter resources and specific resource information in Microsoft Project and assign resources to specific tasks. Lessons
Module 8: Making Work Package Estimates This module explains how Microsoft Project calculates task duration, task work (effort) and task resources. Students will be able to choose among three task types as they enter task estimates and they will know which task type is appropriate for the type of estimate they are making. Lessons
Module 9: Creating an Initial Schedule This module explains how Project calculates a schedule based on task relationships and task duration. Students will understand the purpose of identifying critical path tasks and will be able to identify schedule float within the project. Lessons
Module 10: Create a Resource Leveled Schedule This module explains how over-allocated resources create unrealistic schedules and shows methods for rescheduling in order to create a realistic schedule based on resource availability. Lessons
Module 11: Managing the Project This module explains how to use Project to control a project. Students will save their plan to a baseline and see how entering actual task performance data enables them to view differences between planned and actual performance. Lessons
Module 12: Formatting Output and Printing Reports This module explains how to format the many views and reports available in Project. Lessons
Module 13: Managing Multiple Projects This module explains how to view many projects as parts of one very large project in order to gain new views on resource availability and task relationships among projects. Lessons
Module 14: Advanced Topics This module explains how to leverage some of the advanced features of Project. Lessons
Module 15: Summary This module provides an overview of the topics presented in the course. |
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