Project Management Creating & Tracking Projects - PM01

General Description

Microsoft Project provides a means to document, resource, track and/or review project details. This session will help you to develop and maintain project schedules incorporating task relationships, resource management and costings to produce project reports and models.

Target Audience

This session is intended for participants requiring a software tool to assist with their project management needs. Project management experience is highly recommended but not essential.

Pre-requisites

Participants should have an understanding of fundamental personal computer operations such as file management and mouse operations.

Duration

2 days

Learning Outcomes

• Discuss the basic principles of project management
• Create and save a new project
• Adjust and create calendars
• Break projects into tasks and summary tasks
• Create tasks and summary tasks
• Identify the critical path of tasks
• Enter milestones
• Create Gantt charts
• Set up task dependencies and relationships
• Assign resources and materials to tasks
• Level and distribute resources
• Assign material resources
• Incorporate costs into the project schedule
• Set constraints and deadlines
• Track project progression and deviations
• Print Gantt charts and other Project views