Managing a project requires many different management and co-ordination skills. It can be a challenge to keep track of all aspects of a project and still keep everything moving toward a project goal. Learning to use MS-Project will help managers plan, manage and co-ordinate a project from conception to completion. This course teaches through a series of project planning examples how to use Project to store and display project information, allocate resources and handle conflicts. The course will employ Projects powerful reporting and filtering tools to produce summary reports and project plans for managers and other team members.
On completion of this course attendees will be familiar with the Microsoft Project environment and comfortable creating project schedules allocating resources and specifying task dependencies and resource costs. Attendees will be familiar with different project views and work comfortably with different types of Gantt charts. You will learn how to resolve overallocation issues, compare the project progress with the initial projections and use the critical path method to keep projects on time and within budget.
Managers needing to use Project as a tool for project scheduling and resource allocation & budgeting. Familiarity with existing Windows applications is assumed but no MS-Project experience is required.
