Course 50586-A: Building Flexible Project Plans with Microsoft Project 2010

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Course 50586-A: Building Flexible Project Plans with Microsoft Project 2010

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This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to create projects with Microsoft Project 2010. It is structured in the form of modules that contain theory, instructor-led and self-paced exercises.

Audience Profile

The course is intended for information workers with basic understanding of project management concepts.

Prerequisites

Course outline

Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft Project 2010

Module Overview

This module explains basic definitions and concepts in project management. It provides an initial overview of the types of files in Microsoft Project 2010, the product interface, and the use of Help Function.

Lessons

Project Management Definitions
Enterprise Project Management with Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server 2010
Microsoft Project 2010 Overview

Lab Sessions

Introduction to Microsoft Project 2010

Lab Lessons

How to set Microsoft Project 2010 general options
How to set Microsoft Project 2010 user specific options

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand basic project management definitions such as project, program, portfolio etc.
Understand the Microsoft enterprise solution for managing projects.
Work with the various types of Project 2010 files.
Navigate well the new Project 2010 interface.
Use the Help function.
Configure Project 2010.

Module 2: Starting a project

Module Overview

This module explains what are the initial steps when starting a project.

Lessons

Create and save projects
Define project settings
Manage project calendars

Lab Sessions

Not available for this module

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Create and save projects.
Define project settings.
Manage project calendars.

Module 3: Creating tasks

Module Overview

This module explains how to create tasks in Microsoft Project 2010.

Lessons

Manual and Auto-scheduled tasks
How to create tasks

Lab Sessions

Create a project and insert tasks

Lab Lessons

Create project
Insert tasks
Organize tasks in phases
Sequence tasks
Change connection types

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Differentiate when to use manual and auto-scheduled tasks.
Insert tasks and milestones.
Import tasks from files.
Define tasks properties.
Work with task inspector.

Module 4: Adding deadlines, constraints, and calendars

Module Overview

This module explains how to add deadlines, constraints or calendars to tasks.

Lessons

Deadlines
Constraints
Calendars

Lab Sessions

Adding deadlines, constraints, and calendars

Lab Lessons

Add deadlines and constraints
Add calendars

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Differentiate when to use a deadline, constraint, or calendar.
Insert deadlines, constraints, and calendars to tasks.

Module 5: Define resources

Module Overview

This module explains how to create project resources.

Lessons

Types of resources
Resource description
Assignment of resources to tasks

Lab Sessions

Define resources

Lab Lessons

Create resources
Assign resources to tasks

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Differentiate among the project recourse types.
Define work, material, and cost resources with their properties.
Assign resources to tasks.

Module 6: Manage project changes

Module Overview

This module explains how to manage various types of project changes.

Lessons

Scheduling formula
Effort-driven scheduling
Task types

Lab Sessions

Not available for this module

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand the scheduling formula.
Understand effort-driven scheduling and task types.

Module 7: Project baseline and tracking progress

Module Overview

This module explains how to save a baseline of a project and how to track project progress.

Lessons

Project baseline
Tracking project progress

Lab Sessions

Project baseline and tracking progress

Lab Lessons

Set project baseline
Track project work
Review project critical path

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Set project baseline.
Understand critical path.
Track project progress using various methods.

Module 8: Project analysis

Module Overview

This module explains how to analyze the project information that you have.

Lessons

Sort, group and filter data
Format Gantt Chart
Print project
Use Visual Reports

Lab Sessions

Project analysis

Lab Lessons

Sort, filter and group project data
Create and review project schedule and costs reports

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Sort, group and filter data.
Format Gantt Chart.
Print project.
Use Visual Reports.

Module 9: Manage connected projects

Module Overview

This module explains how to manage connected projects.

Lessons

Create a master project
Link tasks in different projects
Use shared resource pool

Lab Sessions

Manage connected projects

Lab Lessons

Create a master project
Use a resource pool

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Create a master project.
Link tasks in different projects.
Use shared resource pool.

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