MS Project 2016 (MSP) Online/Virtual Training

MS Project (MSP) 2016 is a project management software program, developed and sold by Microsoft, which is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.

Course topics are carefully crafted by expert from industry to cover most widely used features of MS Project Professional. Course aim is to prepare attendees to gain sufficient conceptual knowledge as well as practice covering practical planning/scheduling situations, so that they can start using MS Project tool in their company projects right after the training.

Course offering:
* Complete hands-on effective Instructor led Virtual Training with individual focus
* Practices and Exercises during the workshop
* Interactive approach to understand concepts thoroughly
* Discussion on concepts behind few features of MS Project
* 15 PDUs for PMP renewal

Schedule: 5 Mar - 9 Mar 2018 from 9:00 - 12:00 Hrs EST

Total Duration: 15 hours

* Introduction
–Project Management basics
–Background of MS Project

* Know MS Project
–Overview on UI components & customization
–Overview of different Views
–Scheduling Modes

* Creating Project
–New Project
–Setting up project information
–Calendars in MS Project
–Create custom Calendar

* Identifying work to be done
–Work Breakdown structure
–Organizing Tasks
–Task Information
–Creating Milestones, recurring tasks, summary tasks
–Changing / customizing WBS Code

* Building Schedule
–Linking Tasks
–Schedule Network Analysis
–Leads & Lags
–Float/Slack
–Overview of constraints

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

* 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

* Fine Tuning
–Reviewing schedule
–Critical Path Method (CPM)
–Review, balance workload
–Resource Leveling assignments

* Baseline Plan
–Baseline a project
–Limitations in baseline
–Viewing baselines
–Overview on Interim plan

* Tracking Project
–Overview on status calculations
–Steps to track progress
–Approaches to track project in tool
–Showing variance

* Reporting
–Graphical reports
–Visual Reports

* Working with more than one project
–Creating master, sub projects
–Attaching & updating master-sub projects
–Resource Pool in MS Project