VENUE - KITS TRAINING CENTRE

DURATION - 1 DAY

AIM

This course provides practical guidance on how to plan and schedule projects using Project software. On completion of the course delegates will have acquired the skills needed to create a new project, analyse and adjust schedules with date, dependency and resource constraints; customise and print Gantt Chart views and reports; and record and review task progress against the baseline. Participants will also acquire the necessary skills to customise and print high quality charts and reports for effective communication of project plans.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Those with either none or minimal knowledge of Project, but have some knowledge of Project Management Theory.

Pre-Requisites: Basic keyboard and mouse skills needed to help navigate and explore the windows environment.

Follow-on Courses: Project Advanced.

COURSE CONTENT

Getting Started

• Menus, shortcut menus, Gantt Chart view, Toolbars.
• Using Gantt Chart view
• Outline numbers and work breakdown structure codes
• Task information form; tables; system options.

Starting a New Project

• Overview of Project planning
• Project dialogue boxes, file properties and calendars
• Tasks: Moving, summary tasks and task notes
• Saving the Project

Scheduling

• Entering dates, working with constraints, durations and timescales
• Working with dependencies – types of dependencies/total and free slack
• Critical Path Analysis, Gantt Chart view
• Displaying the Project summary task
• Scheduling to deadlines, working with recurring tasks and splitting tasks

Assigning Resources

• What is resource scheduling
• Using the resource sheet, resource assignments and auto filters
• Part-time resource assignments
• Multiple assignments on tasks

Publishing View and Reports

• Printing reports in various views and controlling multiple pages
• Printing task notes with Gantt Charts
• Publishing and viewing HTML documents

Managing Changes

• Baselining the plan; How Autolinking affects changes
• Changing the current date, entering percent complete
• Rescheduling outstanding work.
• Brining the project in under budget
• Amending and updating the project
• Monitoring and communicating change