Let practicing project managers & accredited Microsoft Project experts help you attain fundamental Microsoft Project skills, abilities, and knowledge.
Workshop overview | |
Providing an invaluable introduction to Microsoft Project, this workshop provides delegates with the core skills they need to plan, schedule, and execute real-world projects. Given this workshop’s short duration, it is ideally suited to people planning smaller time-focused projects.
As a component of our Contractor Project Solutions suite, this workshop is the perfect partner for our Project Planning Foundation workshop and as an ideal prerequisite for our Planning and Execution workshop. |
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Delivery method | |
Virtual Classroom: 1 x 3 hours, Physical Classroom: 1 x 3 hours. Delivered In-Company. | |
Learning outcomes | |
After completing this workshop, delegates will have a solid foundation of Microsoft Project skills, knowledge, and abilities. They will:
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Audience | |
Project Manager, Contracts Manager, Site Manager. | |
Workshop detail | |
Initiating the project
This first workshop section explains Microsoft Project from first principles; the database, the scheduling engine, the views & tables & reports, together with the ribbon-based command structure. Within this section, you will also learn how to create a new project, set its fundamental options, define project calendars and resources, and create the project’s top-level structure of key deliverables. |
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Planning the project
Section two is all about creating a well-defined and realistic project plan. You will learn how to expand a project’s outline into tasks and milestones, which in turn you will specify and schedule. You will review and optimise your project, in preparation for reporting this data to your stakeholders with insight and clarity. As work and cost are key tenets of a workable project, you will also gain an understanding of how your project’s plan can best model the real world. |
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Executing the project
Section three is all about managing the course of a project during its riskiest phase, execution. You will learn how to set realistic targets with baselines, update progress around as-of dates and fix work and tasks to stakeholder-driven schedules. You will also learn the importance of rescheduling remaining work into the future and how your project’s current work/cost/time model can be analysed and (where necessary) replanned. |
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Closing a project
The final workshop section closes off a completed project. You will learn how views, tables, filters, and reports can be used to analyse project performance, thus gaining invaluable lessons that can be applied to future projects. |
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