MS Project – Workshop on Practical Usage of MSP

Description

This workshop is meant for professionals who want to gain understanding of MS Project. This workshop makes learning easy. It covers basic to intermediate levels of Microsoft Project. The workshop aims to show how project management professionals can use the software effectively. It covers scheduling, working with resources and making reports. The workshop demonstrates step by step procedure for building up the project in different phases like planning, implementation.

Course Contents

PRACTICAL  USAGE OF MICROSOFT  PROJECT –  WORKSHOP  DURATION – ONE DAY 

A ) Basics of Project Management

Making Network Diagrams with Exercise

Understanding the Toolbars and Nomenclature  in MSP

Creating a new project in MSP

Set working or non-working hours and days for calendars

Create custom fields

Manual versus auto-scheduling

Other options of tabs  in MSP

B) Create a task-based schedule

Make list of tasks with sub tasks

Define project start date, apply calendars and current date, enter project properties, display the project summary task on a new project

Create and modify a project task structure

Create and modify summary tasks and sub-tasks, rearrange tasks, create milestones

Build a logical schedule model

Set dependencies and links

C)  Updating and Tracking a project

Update actual progress

Update task percentage completion, cancel an un-needed task

Display critical path information

D ) Communicate project information

Apply different  views

Export project  data as PDF or MPP file

Import data from Excel, export data to Excel

Display reports and dashboards

Report progress status,Display Gantt information, schedule or timeline, display data , reports, change and customise reports.