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D.

McKINSEY & ASSOCIATES


MICROSOFT PROJECT TRAINING

Microsoft Project provides the flexible and intuitive tools and solutions to help
create the project plan, track progress, adjust resources as needed, and make the
project more visible, so that others can see the status of a project. In this
Microsoft Project class, you gain the skills to manage and maintain control of
multiple projects more efficiently for your organization.

DURATION One Week

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the training, will learn how to
 Leverage Microsoft Project to plan your project
 Manage project schedules and resources
 Create reports and dashboards to effectively share project data
 Track progress and monitor variances between targets and actuals

Important Course Information

Requirements:
 Basic knowledge of Project Management concepts

Software:
 This course uses Microsoft Project 2016, but many concepts apply to earlier
versions of Microsoft Project

Course Outline

 Introduction to Microsoft Project

 Overview of project management concepts that apply to Microsoft


Project
 Introducing the Microsoft Project interface
 Customizing the Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar
 Creating a New Project Plan

Building a project plan

 Producing a work breakdown structure (WBS)


 Entering tasks, summary tasks and milestones
 Estimating and entering task duration
 Establishing relationships between tasks
 Working with different types of dependencies
 Adjusting the project schedule to target specific dates

Scheduling essentials

 Leveraging manual and automatic scheduling


 Conceptualizing and identifying the critical path
 Analyzing and managing the schedule

Optimizing the project plan

 Implementing lag and lead


 Applying deadline dates to the project plan
 Setting, locating and removing task constraints
 Managing master and subprojects
 Controlling Your Project Plan

Configuring calendars

 Creating new and updating existing calendars


 Analyzing the relationship between project, task and resource calendars

 Changing default calendar options

Applying calendars to projects, tasks and resources

 Assigning calendars appropriately


 Updating your project plan due to calendar changes
Sharing project calendars

 Saving calendar changes to the Global template


 Sharing and organizing calendars
 Keeping Your Project on Track

Preparing for tracking

 Validating the project plan


 Establishing the baseline

Tracking task progress

 Identifying key steps in the tracking process


 Updating the project plan with tracking data

 Analyzing variance against the project plan

 Creating graphical status indicators

Troubleshooting schedule problems

 Reviewing project task updates for timeline problems


 Resolving issues with the project schedule
 Managing Project Resources and Assignments

Creating and assigning resources

 Defining work, material and cost resources


 Assigning resources to tasks

 Utilizing budget resources

 Configuring resource pools

Managing and tracking resource assignments

 Troubleshooting resource assignments


 Investigating and resolving resource over-allocations
 Tracking assignment progress
 Leveraging the Usage views to manage assignments
 Analyzing Project Data and Preparing Reports
Identifying communication needs

 Defining stakeholder groups


 Identifying project communication requirements

Creating reports

 Examining basic and dynamic report types


 Designing dashboard indicator reports

 Building custom tables, filters and reports

 Creating Visual Report templates

 Automating reporting tasks via macros

Interacting with other applications

 Sharing data using the Timeline view


 Overview of collaboration features

 Employing import and export maps

TRAINING METHODOLOGY
The course will be conducted along workshop principles with formal
lectures and interactive worked examples/software. The emphasis in the
course will be on the explanation of all technical phenomena and providing
answers to problems that are encountered in everyday industrial practice.
Each learning point will be combined with practical examples. There will be
ample opportunities for active discussion that will help solidify the gained
knowledge. All course materials will be provided.
WHO WILL THE COURSE BENEFIT?

This course is designed for Young or fresh engineering


graduates/technologists selected by NCDMB to be trained to acquire
industry related performance abilities, on the job competencies, technical
skills, positive attitudes, and knowledge of business awareness, commercial
viability, entrepreneurship, and business skills, social and people skills so as
to satisfy the local content development initiatives.

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