Project Management with Microsoft Project

Basic knowledge of MS Office.

The course participants will learn how to skillfully use the Microsoft Project to create a schedule of tasks, manage resources and monitor the implementation of the various stages of the project.

Introduction

• Definition of the project.
• The key principles of development projects
• Model triangle

Handling

• Installing the application
• Features of Microsoft Project
• Help
• Save, search, open the project
• Basic views

Schedule

• Scheduling rules
• types of schedules
• Calendars Project
• Entering tasks to schedule
• Editing tasks in the schedule
• Duration of the tasks
• Time continuous tasks
• Estimated time for tasks
• Priority project and task
• Correlations between tasks
• Trail and delay
• Milestones
• Visualization tasks in different views

Optimize schedule

• Restrictions on tasks
• Deadline
• critical Tasks
• critical Path
• Extra time in the project
• Shortening the critical path
• Customize views

Resources

• Definition of resources
• Variable costs of resources
• One-time costs of enforcement
• Tables rates
• Availability of resources
• Jobs - definition
• Constants in the equation of work
• The labor input
• The allocation of resources
• Overload resources
• Balancing resources

Costs

• Fixed costs
• Cost control
• The costs of the project, tasks, resources, and labor

Realization of the project

• Methods of implementation of the project
• Baseline
• Analysis of the state
• Analysis of deviations
• Changes in the project

Reports

• Reports in Microsoft Project
• Create custom reports

Search of data

• Sorting Data
• Filters
• Grouping data

Earn Value Analysis