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Course Outline
Duration
3 half days
Prerequisite
Experience with Microsoft Windows and use of a mouse. .
Objectives
To provide a thorough understanding of the comprehensive
concepts and skills that will enable the participant to
effectively use Project.
Methodology
Group and individual instruction, hands on practical exercises,
visual aids, comprehensive course documentation.
Confirmation of Assessment Plan
This will be issued to the trainee at commencement of training
session.
Expected Outcome
By the end of the course the participant should be able
to use the following functions and features of Project.
CONTENT
Project Views
- Working with views
- Combination views
- Creating your own views
- Placing views on the menu
- Sharing new views with
other projects
More Tables & Filters
- Overview of tables &
filters
- Understanding tables
- Creating a new table
- Using the new table
- A Clayton’s table
- Exporting filters
- Creating a custom filter
Templates
- Templates overview
- Examining existing templates
- Creating new template
- Using a template
- Modifying a template
- Changing the global template
- Removing items form the
global template
- Copying items between
projects
Other Applications
- Exporting overview
- Copying to Word
- Copying to Excel
- Linking to Excel
Working with Tasks
- Adjusting the timescale
- Displaying non working
days
- Displaying task information
- Establishing relationships
between tasks
- Entering relationships
manually
- Understanding critical
path
- Lag and lead times
- Outlining
- Constraints
Arranging Tasks
- Filtering tasks
- Creating your own tables
- Creating customer filters
- Sorting tasks
- Printing your tasks
Assigning Resources
- What are resources?
- Project’s calculation
methodologies
- Resource driven scheduling
- Fixed duration scheduling
- Creating a resource pool
- Assigning calendars to
resources
- Assigning resources to
tasks
- Assigning delays in the
work
- Assigning resources in
an information box
- Assigning resources with
a task form
- Resources that are different
calendars
- Resource allocation problems
- Correcting scheduling
problems
- Resource levelling
- Identifying over allocations
- Correcting over allocations
Costs
- Examining project statistics
- Resource costs
- Fixed costs for tasks
Pert Charts
- Pert charts
- Viewing the pert chart
- Seeing more of the Pert
- Creating a new node
- Adding relationships
- Deleting nodes
- Customising perts
- Task pert
Monitoring the Project
- Understanding planning
- Creating a baseline plan
- Updating the schedule
with actuals
- Tracking with the tracking
box
- Comparing performance
- Getting the schedule back
on track
Printing Reports
- Changing print setup
- Using Project’s
report
- Using the predefined reports
- Defining your own custom
reports
- Creating crosstabulations
Customising Project
- Customising the toolbars
- Creating your own toolbar
- Removing the toolbar
- Customising the Gantt
chart
- Attaching notes
- Drawing
- Recording simple macros
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