Who Should Attend?
This course is suitable for anyone who is new to Project and who doesn’t know the basics of the programme.
Duration
1 day
Location
Ipswich / Essex / In-house Availability
Certifications
Provided on completion
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The purpose of this course is to give delegates the confidence in using the basic essential features of Project.
By the end of this course delegates will be able to:
- Understand the basic layout of Project
- Create a project plan
- Setting up and project calendar and tasks
- Using resources in a project
Course Outline
- Introduction to MS Project
- What is MS Project?
- Understanding the screen elements
- Creating a new project
- Auto and manual scheduling
- Editing the project calendar
- Setting working days and time
- Creating exceptions
- Creating recurring exceptions
- Task scheduling
- Entering durations, lead and lag and notes
- Linking tasks
- Setting constraints and deadlines
- Recurring tasks and milestones
- Splitting a task
- Managing resources
- Creating work, material and cost resources
- Assigning resources to tasks
- Viewing resource assignments
- Reporting and Tracking Progress
- Printing Project Views
- Visual Reports
- Dashboard Reports (2013 only)
- Customising Microsoft Project
- Changing task bar information and colour
- Inserting and hiding columns
- Using common Project views and tables
