Courses/Advanced Microsoft Project

Hone your Microsoft Project skills to perfection

2-day course

Durban:
Johannesburg:
21 - 22 July 2008
24 - 25 July 2008

Have you ever longed to utilize Microsoft Project to its full potential?


Take the plunge. Put yourself on the leading edge. Explore the potential of your scheduling software. Fast-track your way to proficiency in Microsoft Project.

This elite two-day advanced course will give you the opportunity to consolidate your grasp of planning and tracking, filling in all the missing gaps in your knowledge. You will come to fully understand those functions that you have longed to use but don't know how to. You will also discover many powerful features that you didn't even know existed.

On the first day of the course, we review the basics and introduce some new concepts. The rigorous exercises and dynamic class atmosphere will give you a thorough understanding of planning a schedule, working with resources, and tracking progress and costs.

Building on this solid foundation, the course moves on to explore the more advanced features of Microsoft Project. Learn how to capture your project team's time sheets and monitor the hours booked to your project, so as to avoid costly overruns. Discover how Earned Value can provide you with a powerful reporting tool. Explore the possibilities for customizing views, tables and data fields. See how easy it is to export data from Microsoft Project to other programs, and to plot meaningful graphs of progress and costs. Find out how to set up templates that automatically customize each new project. Set up a "dashboard" of green, orange and red lights indicating project status.

This course is a "must" for all serious Microsoft Project users who are seeking to improve their skills.

Please note that this course is not for beginners. As a pre-requisite for attending this course, all delegates must be experienced users of Microsoft Project, with a good working knowledge of the software.

Advanced Microsoft Project: Course Content

Introduction
  • Microsoft Project as a tool for planning, executing & controlling projects
  • Schedule development using a Work Breakdown Structure
  • Case study for Microsoft Project exercises
Review of basic & intermediate Microsoft Project functions
  • Setting up a schedule
  • Linking tasks & formatting the Gantt chart
  • Different ways of formatting task bars & time scales
  • Working with costs & resources
  • Tracking progress & costs
  • Hands-on exercises
Managing resources with Microsoft Project
  • Working with man-hours
  • Understanding fixed duration, fixed units & fixed work
  • Using the "Resource Usage" & "Task Usage" Views
  • Resource leveling
  • Resource groups & shared resource pools
Earned value
  • Understanding Earned Value principles
  • Generating Earned Value tables & graphs with Microsoft Project
  • Interpreting the results
Professional presentation of schedules & reports
  • Formatting and printing Gantt charts
  • Viewing progress lines
  • Setting up user-defined Groups
  • Advanced formatting of the Gantt chart
Microsoft Project features
  • Customising tables & views
  • Using Groups & Filters
  • Plotting graphs & S-curves
  • Transferring data to Word, Excel & PowerPoint
  • Working with customised user-defined fields
  • Saving templates of your cusomised settings
  • Customising calendars & using multiple calendars
  • Linking multiple projects
  • Setting up a "dashboard" of project performance with coloured indicators
  • Guidelines for good scheduling practice
  • Working with Microsoft Project 2007

Advanced Microsoft Project: Course fees

Fees include: Lunch, refreshments and a comprehensive training manual.
Volume discount: We offer a discount for bookings of more than one delegate from the same company.
Early bird discount: A 10% discount is given if payment is made by 30 June 2008.
VAT: The rates listed exclude VAT.
Number of delegates Standard rates Early bird rates
1 delegate
2 delegates
3 or more delegates
R 4 350
R 3 900 each
R 3 500each
R 3 915
R 3 510 each
R 3 150 each

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