Using Microsoft Project to Plan and Control your Projects Level 2

For Microsoft Project training to be effective it needs to be integrated, applied, and enjoyable. By guiding participants through the construction and use of both sample and actual projects (from your workplace), we have found our training to be both productive, and well received. Other courses may show you how to find the product features - our course teaches you how use the features to produce meaningful results.

Who should take this course?

This course is for anyone who intends to be involved in planning and/or controlling projects using Microsoft Project 2007. (We also have courses available for older versions of Microsoft Project.)

Where is this course offered?

The course is offered on an open-enrollment basis at our Project Management Education Center in Bellevue, WA, (which also serves Seattle, Redmond, and Renton, Everett, Federal Way, Tacoma), as well as at our Project Management Education Center in Tucson, AZ, (which also serves the Greater Phoenix area, Oro Valley, and Sierra Vista / Fort Huachuca), and other select locations such as Spokane, Anchorage, Portland, Olympia, Boise, Fargo and Grand Cayman. We also provide it on an on-site basis anywhere in the country.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to:

Create work, material, and cost resources
Create resource calendars
Assign work, material, and cost resources
Understand effort-drive scheduling
Utilize task types and understand their impact on schedule calculations
Create task calendars
Assign fixed costs to tasks
Set up recurring tasks
Analyze over-allocated resources
Perform resource leveling - both automatic and manual
Utilize advanced reporting features

Course Details

Length: 8 hours.
Style: This interactive course is built around “Step by Step Microsoft Project” by Carl Chatfield, PMP. The text is accompanied by PowerPoint presentations – participants build projects based on sample data, as well as developing and experimenting with their own project data.
Included: Course text, accompanying CD with sample files, and student manual.
Format: Computer classroom.
Prerequisites: Using Microsoft Project Level 1, or equivalent.