Goals
- Know the main features of MS Project
- Know how to create and follow a project with MS Project
Program
Master the fundamentals of project management
Fundamentals of project management
Planning a project Scheduling
methods (PERT, Gantt and Potential-tasks)
Inter-task link: FD, DD, FF, DF
Earliest / latest dates and calculation of margins (free , totals)
Critical path
Project splitting into batches (WBS)
Presentation of MS Project
Workshop: Construction of a retro-planning and calculation of free and total margins – visualization of the critical path.
Discover MS Project and launch a project
Ms Project’s planning engine, operation and calculation rules
The working environment: panels and tools
The different views
Creation of a first project: simple, from a model, from an Excel table
Project properties
Definition of a calendar global for the project, working time and holidays.
Project and sub-projects
Workshop: Creation of a project – settings and calendar – different views of Ms Project.
Build the schedule
Task planning mode (automatic, manual planning)
Duration management: units, elapsed duration
Simple tasks
Links between tasks: early or late
Constraints on tasks: flexible, inflexible, semi-flexible
Grouping of tasks with a summary task
Definition of milestones
Periodic tasks, configuration
Definition of a due date
Splitting a task over a range
Moving a task
Viewing the margins and the critical path
Deactivating a task to view the impact on the schedule
Saving and comparing several schedules
Using the timeline bar
Workshop: Planning of a complete project.
Assign resources
Define the resources, types of resources available, specific calendar
Assign resources to tasks
Definition of several profiles for the same resource
Forecasts driven by the effort
Parameterization of the type of task and impact of the management by the effort
Delay in the start of allocation of a resource
Visualization of resource overloads
Audit of overuse
Team planner
Sharing of resources by several projects
Formatting and printing of a plan
Cost management for a resource
Overtime accounting
Visualization of costs, overruns budgets
Workshop: Definition and multiple resource allocation scenarios – effort management
Follow the progress of a project
Definition of initial planning and status date
Monitoring of progress, entry of actual data
Percentage of completion
Replanning during the project
Project control
Workshop: Planning of a complete project and allocation of resources.
Generate and print reports
Resource and cost control, EVM indicators
Generation and formatting of reports
Printing of diagrams
Import / export
Workshop: Printing reports, Excel exports
Passing the certification (if requested by the trainee)
Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).
Duration
2 days
Price
£ 1085
Audience
Everyone
Prerequisites
Knowledge of project management
Reference
GES176-F
Sessions
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