Mastering Microsoft Project 2013 Training Course
Course 55054
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"The instructor was very helpful and answered all the questions. He even answered questions outside of scope."
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"The instructor was very helpful and answered all the questions. He even answered questions outside of scope."
-Sheryll M.
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Course Overview
This three-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. This course will also help students prepare for Microsoft Project 2013 Exam 74-343 Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013. Audience
Course 55054: Mastering Microsoft Project 2013 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 2013. Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft Project This module provides an overview of how the features of Project relate to the job of the project manager. The module also teaches the student how to access different features by navigating through the ribbon. Lessons
Module 2: A Quick and Easy Overview of Managing with Project This module demonstrates the required steps to create and use Microsoft Project 2013 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 Microsoft Project 2013 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 Microsoft Project. Lessons
Module 6: Identifying Task Relationships This module explains the rules for establishing dependency links between tasks and how to use Project to display these dependencies. Lessons
Module 7: Defining Resources within Project 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 Microsoft 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 Participants will be able to control project output by creating and using Custom Fields, Sorting, Filtering, and Grouping of the project data. 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 Microsoft Project. Lessons
Module 15: Summary This module provides an overview of the topics presented in the course and how to prepare for Microsoft’s exam 74-343 Microsoft Project 2013, Managing Projects with Project 2013. Lessons
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