Microsoft Project - Intermediate Course

Overview

This course aims to give participants the skills necessary to create and assign resources to tasks, and to utilise MS Project features to track, monitor, control, and provide status reports on project management plans.

This is best for

Users who have completed the Introduction and wish to expand their skills.

Content

Review

Project management and MS Project’s role
Review of scheduling concepts

Resources

Understanding resourcing in MS Project
Creating work, material and cost resources
Working with and applying resource and group calendars
Assigning resources to tasks
Working with effort driven and fixed duration scheduling
Working with multiple and part-time resources
Dealing with resource overallocations

Project Management

Working with variable and fixed costs
Setting, modifying and utilising baselines in MS Project
Tracking actuals and monitoring progress
Highlighting, grouping and filtering project data
Formatting text and bars
Working with and modifying reports

Learning outcomes

Create a resource sheet, assign resources and troubleshoot problem allocations.
Determine project costs
Set baselines and track actuals
Format and extract information
Use and create a range of reports

Prerequisites

Completion of a 1 day Project Introduction course or an equivalent level of knowledge. Project Management theoretical concepts highly recommended.

Duration

1 day

Investment

$450 GST free per person

Includes:

Experienced facilitator
Interactive, practical and hands on learning
Comprehensive take-home training and reference manual
Post-course Help Desk support
Certificate of Attendance for participants
Morning & afternoon refreshments
Delicious cafe lunch
Post course follow up

	26 February 2019 (One day)
	7 March 2019 (One day)
	27 March 2019 (One day)
	4 April 2019 (One day)
	2 May 2019 (One day)
	29 May 2019 (One day)
	11 June 2019 (One day)
	4 July 2019 (One day)
	25 July 2019 (One day)
	16 August 2019 (One day)