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(Project
Planning and Cost Estimation with MS Project)
Course
Overview
This
course is designed for individuals who want to become
project management professionals and will use Microsoft
Office Project Professional (2003 or 2007) as a tool
to assist them in managing their projects.
The beginners’ course covers the essential topics
in the project management methodologies and their
implementation in Microsoft Project followed by critical
skills necessary to create and modify a project plan
that contains tasks, task scheduling, resources, resource
assignments, schedule improvement techniques and cost
estimation.
Although the course is based on MS Project 2003, the
new features in Project 2007 are also demonstrated.
The student materials will contain MS Project features
and details which can be used as reference after they
complete the course.
Hands-on
exercises on individual computers, during the course,
will give the students practical experience on several
features of Microsoft Project.
Who
should attend?
This
course is intended for individuals who are responsible
for creating and modifying project plans and who need
to use MS Project’s powerful features to manage
these projects. Although, familiarity with project
management principals and terminology would be useful,
this is not a prerequisite.
MS
Project Beginners Course
Syllabus
Introduction
• Introduction
and overview of project management standards, terms
and methodology
• Project management processes and their implementation
in MS Project
Setting
up MS Project and creating a project file
•
New project file creation and use of project templates
• MS Project features, menus, toolbars and
views
• Customising project options for your project
• Creating a project calendar and defining
working and non-working time
Project
Planning
Building
a project plan
• Analysis of project scope and creation of
work breakdown structure
• Identifying project phases
• Reproducing the WBS and creation of a task
list and milestones
Scheduling
tasks
• Importing task information from Microsoft
Excel
• Entering and sorting tasks
• Defining task types
• Defining task constraints
• Identifying, creating and customising task
calendars
• Establishing dependencies between tasks
• Estimating task durations and entering into
project plan
• Use of lead and lag times for task scheduling
• Outlining and creation of tasks, sub-tasks
and summary tasks
• Creating WBS Codes
Creating
and assigning resources
• Establishing project resource requirements
• Defining work, material and cost resource
types
• Identifying, creating and customising resource
calendars
• Entering resources
• Assigning resources to tasks
Cost
calculation and budgeting
•
Entering work, material and cost resources cost
details
• Defining fix costs and other costs
• Assigning cost resources to tasks
• Calculating total project costs
Schedule
compression and optimising project schedule
•
Establishing and optimising critical path
• Schedule crashing: fast tracking and schedule
compression
• Adjusting leads and lags
• What-if scenario analysis
• Resource overall locations and resource
levelling
• Finalising project plan for stakeholders’
approval
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