This advanced skill-level course is for individuals who are proficient in the basic functions, features and commands of Microsoft® Project 2003 and wish to take their skills to the next level. Emphasis is placed on five major topics, including transferring information between other applications, working with multiple projects, sharing resources across projects, advanced resource assignments and customizing the user interface. This workshop is especially suited for those involved in multiple projects, master projects or subprojects and shared resource pools. PDUs = 16.
Audience:
Project managers, team leaders, and team members who need to expand their knowledge of Microsoft Project 2003 beyond the basic and intermediary levels.
Prerequisites
Professional project management experience, a good working knowledge of Microsoft Project 2003, and an understanding of Microsoft Excel.
Course duration:
2 days
Course outline:
Working with Multiple Projects
- Deciding How Best to Work with Multiple Projects
- Creating Cross-Project Links Between Tasks
- Managing Cross Project Links
- Working with Master Projects and Subprojects
- Inserting a Subproject into a Master Project
- Dependencies Between Master Project and Subproject Tasks
- Consolidated Projects
- Adding Projects
Sharing Resources
- Creating a Resource Pool
- Linking Projects to the Resource Pool
- Opening a Sharing Resource Project File
- Opening the Resource Pool
- Updating
- Disconnecting a Project from the Resource Pool
- Updating
- Disconnecting a Project from the Resource Pool
- Managing the Resource Pool
Information Distribution
- The Information Model
- Designing and Building Information for Distribution
- Creating Views
- Managing Information
- Global Templates
- Managing the Global Template Using the Organizer
- The Challenge for Project Managers
Monitoring Project Work
- Project Progress and Status
Forecasting
Plan Integrity
- Common Plan Integrity Issues
- Overallocated Resources
- Broken Critical Path
- Negative Slack
- Improper Task Types
- Improper Resource Assignments
- Improper Constraints
- Improper Dependencies
Identifying Variance
- Time Variance
- Cost Variance
- Scope Variance
Earned Value
- Earned Value Settings
- Status Date
- Calculating Earned Value
- Actual Progress
- Progress Using Actual Work Complete
- Progress Using % Complete
- Earned Value Fields
- Earned Value Tables and Reports
Risk
- Implementing a Contingency
- To Add to the Contingency to the Baseline
Integrated Change Management
- Updating the Schedule After Accepting a Change
Exporting Data
Summary
- Planning Processes
- Executing Processes
- Monitoring & Control Processes
- Closing Process
