About the course

This course will help you to develop, execute and report on projects in the Microsoft Project application. This will help to ensure that your projects will end, on-time and on-budget more often. On completion of the course you will have a good working knowledge of the tool, so you can start working on your project immediately.

Course Content

Lesson 1 Navigating Microsoft Project - Learn how to navigate around the tool.

Lesson 2 Setting up a new Project - Learn how to set up a new project from scratch.

Lesson 3 Learn about the importance of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).

Lesson 4 Understand the principles of sequencing activities and working with dependencies.

Lesson 5 Learn how to estimate and enter activity durations.

Lesson 6 Reviewing the Schedule - making sure you're happy with the plan.

Lesson 7 Understanding how to enter costs and resources. .

Lesson 8 Differentiate between fixed work and fixed effort scheduling.

Lesson 9 Using fixed costs and material costs in your schedule .

Lesson 10 More on resources - how to manage over allocation.

Lesson 11 Filters and formatting

Lesson 12 Baselining your project - drawing the line in the sand once your project is ready.

Lesson 13 Tracking project execution - once the project is live, understand how to manage it.

Lesson 14 Project Reporting.