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Course Outline
Day 1 | Module 1
- Initial Planning
- Tasks & Estimates
- Dependencies & Constraints
- Resources & Assignments
- Optimizing for Time, Cost, and Resources
- Reporting
- Standard Reports
- Visual Reports
- Budgeting
- Budget Resources
- Budget Values
Module 2 | Re-Planning
- Tracking & Performance Measurement
- Baseline
- Tracking
- Earned Value
Module 3 | Other Topics
- Resource Pool & Master Projects
- Customization
- Tables, Views, Groups, and Filters
- Custom Fields and Graphical Indicators
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Microsoft Project Advanced
Course Overview
Microsoft® Project not only offers basic support for scheduling aligned with the PMI Process Groups, it can also support you in Best Practice processes of planning, budgeting, tracking, performance measurement, and reporting. Unlock these advanced features for yourself and your daily practice.
Where the MS® Project Fundamentals course has taught you to use functions and features effectively, this advanced course teaches you how to exploit them to their fullest potential. You will gain new insights into the way, MS® Project works and will explore new features you didn’t know even exist. This will easen up your daily project management challenges and free up valuable time for the important parts of project management - communication. The course is process-driven and focuses on optimization of your Microsoft® Project Plan.
- Build an initial project schedule ready for dynamic schedulingAddress resource over-allocation and resource optimization
- Baseline the project schedule when validated by your Sponsor and/or the Steering Committee
- Apply proper schedule and cost control: monitoring and tracking of, and dealing with, variances and subsequent re-scheduling
- Apply Earned Value Techniques to control schedule and cost
Your Benefits
- Understand the requirements for dynamic scheduling and be able to create dynamic schedules
- Learn to apply basic and advanced customization
- Learn to model and manage multiple projects using an enterprise resource pool
- Learn to perform tracking & performance measurement using baselines, cost plans, and Earned Value
- Improve your communication with advanced reporting and progress tracking
Who should attend?
- Line Managers directing a professional pool of Project Leaders or Managers
- Senior Project Managers
- Program Managers
What you can expect
- Interactive Lecture
- Exercises
Prerequisites
- Experience with MS® Project
- Experience with performance tracking and reporting
- Understanding project management processes and their framework as described in the PMBOK® Guide or PRINCE2®
- To participate in this course, you need a portable computer with MS® Project installed
- Recommended reading: “Dynamic Scheduling with Microsoft Office Project 2007” by Rodolfo Ambriz
