Introduction

Keen Technologies MS Project Training makes you expert in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.

Course Content

1.Introduction

• Project Management basics
• Background of MS Project

2.Know MS Project

• Overview on UI components & customization
• Overview of different Views
• Scheduling Modes

3.Creating Project

• New Project
• Setting up project information
• Calendars in MS Project
• Create custom Calendar

4.Identifying work to be done

• Work Breakdown structure
• Organizing Tasks
• Task Information
• Creating Milestones, recurring tasks, summary tasks
• Changing/customizing WBS Code

5.Building Schedule

• Linking Tasks
• Schedule Network Analysis
• Leads & Lags
• Float/Slack
• Overview of constraints

6.Building Team

• Overview on resource types
• Setting up Resource Calendar & availability
• Defining Costs & Cost rate table
• Resource Usage
• Adding more information for resource

7.Assigning Resources

• Assigning work resources to project
• Overview assigning other resources to project
• Reviewing resource assignments
• Duration – Work – Units relationship
• Task Types
• Effort Driven Scheduling

8.Fine Tuning

• Reviewing schedule
• Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Review, balance workload
• Resource Leveling assignments

9.Baseline Plan

• Baseline a project
• Limitations in baseline
• Viewing baselines
• Overview on Interim plan

10.Tracking Project

• Overview on status calculations
• Steps to track progress
• Approaches to track project in tool
• Showing variance

11.Reporting

• Graphical reports
• Visual Reports

12.Working with more than one project

• Creating master, sub projects
• Attaching & updating master-sub projects
• Resource Pool in MS Project

13.Earned Value Management (EVM)

• Understanding EVM technique to track or control costs in project
• Apply cost in project
• EVM in MS Project tool