Planning and managing projects with MS Project

Goals

Acquiring skills for professional planning, organization and management of projects. Getting acquainted with project planning techniques and job organization. Using management media for managing the project during its implementation – dynamic conditions change; monitoring the project implementation process.

Curriculum

Chapter 1. Defining a project

Defining a project. Setting the project properties. Options of Microsoft Project.

Chapter 2. Defining and changing the tasks

Defining the total work period. Project task list. Organizing the tasks. Duration of the tasks. Adding and organizing task information.

Chapter 3. Defining and assigning resources

Project list resources. Defining work time and resource availability. Assigning resources to tasks.

Chapter 4. Tasks execution

Project implementation preparation. Tracking and project implementation control.

Chapter 5. Overview of project status

Overview and project status. Views. Reports. Critical tasks overview. Resource allocation. Budget view.

Chapter 6. Working with a main project and sub-projects

Working with multiple projects. Tracking progress on multiple projects. Using resource pool for multiple projects.