55205 - Mastering Microsoft Project 2016

Course Details

• At Course Completion
• Understand the discipline of project management as it applies to using Microsoft Project 2016.
• Create a Work Breakdown Structure.
• Identify Task Types & Relationships.
• Define Resources within Project.
• Make Work Package Estimates.
• Create an Initial Schedule.
• Create a Resource Leveled Schedule.
• Create Projects from templates, Excel files.
• Create Global templates.
• Create formulas and graphical indicators.
• The steps to record a macro.
• Format Output and Print Reports.
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• Integrate Multiple Projects.
• Set up a Project with a Calendar, Start date, and scheduling method
• Understand Manually Schedule vs. Auto Schedule.
• Manage multiple projects.
• Be able to create a master project list with shared resources.
• Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft Project
• Describe how Project relates to the discipline of Project management.
• Learn what the new features are in Project 2016.
• Navigate to the primary views available using the Ribbon.
• Choose Views that display task, resource, or assignment information.
• Select table within views to change the information that is available to see and edit.
• Relate the features of Project to the 5 steps for building a plan in Project.
• Lab 1: Introduction to Mastering Microsoft Project
• Learn how to change views from a table to a chart.
• Learn the different subcommands that are under each command groups.
• Learn what functions are under the format tab.
• Learn how to access the backstage.
• Module 2: A Quick and Easy Overview of Managing with Project
• Create a new project and prepare it for data entry.
• Enter project tasks.
• Sequence the tasks.
• Define resources.
• Estimate Task duration and assign resources.
• Baseline the project, Track project progress.
• Lab 1: Creating a Basic Project with a template
• Learn how to create a project plan from a template, Learn how to turn off the timeline.
• Learn how to change the project start date.Learn how to add holidays to the company calendar.
• Lab 2: Creating a Basic Project
• Learn how to add resources and their cost, Learn how to switch views.
• Learn how to insert summary task, Learn how to link tasks and summary tasks.
• Module 3: Setting Up a Project
• Use multiple methods to create a new project from an Excel file and a SharePoint Tasks list.
• Establish one or more calendars to constrain resource availability.
• Configure Project to calculate the schedule from the Start Date forward, or from the Finish Date backward.
• Lab 1: Setting Up a Project
• Learn how to add Holidays to the company calendar.
• Learn how to make a custom calendar.
• Learn how to set the Project Start date.
• Learn how to set constraints.
• Module 4: Manually Schedule vs. Auto Schedule
• Students practice switching tasks between Manually Schedule and Auto Schedule modes.
• Switching modes, students learn the impact made on the project schedule and the individual tasks.
• Lab 1: Explore Task Modes
• Describe which project functions are turned off for tasks using Manually Schedule mode.
• Change the task mode from Manually Schedule to Auto Schedule and back.
• Identify tasks that are in Manually Schedule mode by the task mode column and shape on the Gantt chart.
• Describe situations that are particularly appropriate for using Manually Schedule.
• Describe the limitations that a user must be aware of when using Manually Schedule mode.
• Module 5: Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
• Build and use summary and subordinate tasks.
• Understand and use milestones.
• Develop WBS Outlines.
• Assign completion criteria.
• Evaluate the WBS
• Understand and use WBS templates.
• Lab 1: Manipulate a WBS
• Learn how to create and manipulate WBS.
• Learn how to utilize an Outline. Learn how to create notes within tasks,Learn how to utilize an Outline.
• Lab 2: Supporting the Project Plan
• Learn how to hyperlink project artifacts to your project plan.
• Learn how to create reoccurring tasks.
• Module 6: I Identifying Task Relationships
• Understand the different types of task relationships.
• Understand and use various methods to create relationships.
• Determine and display task sequence.
• Understand and use lag, lead, and delay.
• Understand the new feature of Task Paths.
• Lab 1: Display the sequence
• Identify the different ways to create dependent relationships
• Format a Network diagram.
• Modifying dependency lines.
• Modifying items to be shown on the critical path.
• Module 7: Defining Resources within Project
• Define resource types.
• Define individual resources that will be used on the project.
• Record the cost (s) of using each type of resource.
• Record the limit of availability for each type of resource by establishing a resource calendar and defining the maximum units of that resource.
• Lab 1: Resource Calendar and Availability
• Add holidays to a standard calendar.
• Applying different types of calendars to a project and analyzing the impact to the project schedule.
• Applying vacation schedules to the calendar.
• Replace resources based upon the resource’s calendar.
• Module 8: Making Work Package Estimates
• Enter estimates for duration and costs for each task.
• Distinguish between task types and describe when each is appropriate.
• Describe the relationship between work, units, and duration.
• Describe the way Effort Driven scheduling is affected by work, units, and duration.
• Assign tasks to resources using the Team Planner view.
• Lab 1: Work, Duration and Labor
• Analyze the impact of duration, work, and labor.
• Create material resources and assigning cost to the resource.
• Understand how to leverage Project statistics
• Apply a material resource to a task and examine the impact to project costs.
• Module 9: Creating an Initial Schedule
• Calculate float and identify a project’s critical path.
• Understand and identify task constraints.
• Create milestones.
• Use the Task Inspector to troubleshoot the initial schedule.
• Lab 1: Calculating an Initial schedule
• Reviewing changes that can have a positive or negative impact on the project plan.
• Module 10: Create a Resource Leveled Schedule
• Adjust a project schedule to account for limited people and other resources.
• View the overall cost and schedule of a project.
• Identify resources that have been overallocated for a project schedule.
• Use multiple ways to adjust tasks and assignments to remove over allocation for any resource
• Lab 1: Resource Leveling
• Evaluate the project’s resource plan using the resource views.
• Adjust the schedule manually.
• Adjust the schedule using the leveling feature.
• Module 11: Managing the Project
• Learn how to set a baseline.
• Lean how to enter and track project performance data.
• Learn how to apply different tracking methods.
• Learn how to perform a variance analysis on a project.
• Lab 1: The Baseline
• Use Project Statics to see the changes in a project plan., Use the variance tables to understand the changes in a project plan.,Understand the value of baselining.
• Lab 2: Baselining & Tracking Performance
• Understand the value of Baselining a project.
• Understand how to Enter Actuals and measuring their impact.
• Lab 3: Variance
• Understand how variance is calculated with cost, finish and work.
• Module 12: Formatting Output and Printing Reports
• Print, Views, Formats, Sorting, Filtering
• Grouping, Custom Fields, Reporting, Other File Formats
• Lab 1: Use the Grouping Feature
• Create new fields to group, Create new group fields, Create new views.
• Lab 2: Create Reports in Project
• Learn how to leverage Microsoft Project’s View Report features.
• Learn how to create a Visual Report.
• Module 13: Managing Multiple Projects
• Learn how to use common resources among multiple projects.
• Learn how to link tasks between multiple projects.
• Learn how to create a consolidated view of multiple projects.
• Lab 1: Identifying Overallocated Resources from a Resource Pool and Consolidated File
• Learn how to create a master project file.
• Open Resource Pool.
• Learn how to look for over-allocated resources.
• Module 14: Advanced Topics
• Learn how to customize the Ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar.
• Learn how to customize WBS numbering.
• Learn the concepts of Formulas and Graphical indicators.
• Learn the purpose of the Global template and Organizer.
• Learn how to use Task Deadlines.
• Learn how to record a Macro.
• Lab 1: Recording a Macro in Project
• Learn how to create a macro that will automate a process.
• Module 15: Summary
• Learn how to access the Office App Store.
• Lab 1: None