MICROSOFT PROJECT

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DESCRIPTION

The globalization took place from the driving need of Information and Communication Technology activities. Peoples work fast and accurate in making a planning, coordinating, decision and monitoring. Thus demanding the management to use a proper and better methodology and tool in managing projects. Project management methodology is quickly becoming the method of management for more and more industries including construction, infrastructure development, software development, plant shutdown maintenance and etc in order to be competitive advantage. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Understanding one of the tools to manage project
• Documenting the Project with software
• Integrating within the functioning departments
• Keep projects up to date with project updating tools
• Track resources ie. Costs, materials, manpower, time with project tracking tools
• Take advantage of project versatile views to get the big picture
• Anticipate and avoid potential problem before it occurs
• Develop the planning and control tool in managing project
• Fulfilling the expectation of stakeholder and client

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Students with an interest in the principles of project management; trainee project managers; consultants who routinely engage in project management; experienced project managers who wish to refresh their thinking on the principles of project management; program managers and senior mangers who employ or manage project managers; students seeking to pass the Project Management Institute's Project Management Professional (PMP®) exam 

DURATION

2 Days

SPEAKER

Abu Sapian Suhaimi

CONTENT

Introduction to MS Project
Basic project management concepts
Project environment overview
Navigation
Getting Help
Task creation and scheduling
Creating a task list
Modifying a task list
Change Highlighting
Multi-Level undo
Structuring tasks to create an outline
Create the Work Breakdown Structure
Customizing WBS codes
Scheduling Tasks
Working with base calendars
Named calendar exceptions
Defining recurring exceptions and work weeks
Creating task relationships
Types of task relationship
Using lag and lead times
Recurring tasks
Setting constraints
Setting deadlines
Using the critical path
Task Drivers
Using task views
Using calendar view
Using network diagram view
Modifying views
Formatting and Sharing information
Project Properties
Adding notes & hyperlinks
Copy / paste Picture
Copy / paste tasks and rows
Formatting Bars and the Gantt area
Formatting for printing
Troubleshooting printing Gantt charts
Using Background highlighting
Working with built-in reports
Using, modifying and creating visual reports
Managing Resources and Costs
Creating work & material resources
Working with multiple calendars
Assigning resources
Effort Driven Scheduling
Task Types
Working with resource costs and fixed costs
Work contours
Assigning multiple arbitrary costs to tasks
Identifying budget variance
Finalizing the Plan
Reviewing the schedule
Leveling resource over-allocation
Tracking
Creating baselines
Entering project progress
Viewing variance information
Analyze and adjust a schedule
Analyzing schedules
Reschedule the project
Adjustment of resource schedules
Progress lines
Filters and sort
Working with auto filters
Applying built-in filters
Sorting and grouping data
Manage multiple projects
Consolidating and sharing projects
Resource pools: Sharing resources across projects
Leveling and reporting across multiple projects
Exchange project data
Import, export and copy data from Microsoft Excel

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