MS Project with Project Planning and Control
Overview
Project Management is an essential skill in today's busy project-based corporate environment. By combining Project Management techniques with MicrosoftTM Project software, it is possible to see in real-time how planning and control techniques impact upon a project plan.
The course looks at the planning and controlling phases of a project, with practical examples using MicrosoftTM Project.
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for anyone with Project Management responsibilities, who wishes to gain a further understanding of the role, and hands on experience of supporting software.
Benefits To You & Your Organisation
Our Project Planning and Control course will provide you with the core skills required to effectively plan and track a project plan.
Key skills include:
Planning and control essentials
- The need for project planning and control
- Why projects fail
- Fundamentals of planning and control
- Understanding MS Project default settings
Estimating
- Estimating effort and duration
- Understanding effort and work in MS Project
Planning techniques
- Dependencies
- Activity networks
- Critical path analysis
- Schedules and Gantt charts
- Building and editing a project in MS Project
- Structuring projects using the software
Resourcing and task allocation
- Identifying resource requirements
- Allocating tasks to people
- Creating and assigning resources in MS Project
Quality assurance and change control
- Quality control techniques
- Change control procedures
Controlling progress
- Managing project costs in MS Project
- Managing and updating actuals in MS Project
- Taking corrective action
- Overview of software based reports
Comments from delegates attending a bespoke in-company course:
I found the trainer to be well prepared, knowledgeable and well positioned. They dealt with our queries in an impartial way, highlighting product work-arounds in response to our concerns over the product's features. In addition the training was well paced with sufficient breaks.
Very well paced and informative training course. I learned new aspects of MS Project despite attending a similar course nearly two years ago.
Course informative and well run. All questions answered and good offer of future support if required.
I found the training very useful and I gained further tips on the best ways to use MS Project.
I found the course enjoyable and insightful - the trainer was well informed and easy to approach.