6-Hour Virtual Seminar
6-Hour Virtual BootCamp on Mastering MS Project
Product Id : 11415
Price Details
You will learn everything you need in order to set up, manage, and control your plan throughout the project lifecycle, delivered in an engaging instructor-led format.
The extended bootcamp features in depth step-by-step walkthroughs, demonstrations, real world case studies, and exercises.
Bonus materials include templates, workflows, and job aids for you to take away and use for your own projects.
Topics covered:
- Familiarization with the MS Project interface; understanding core features, tools, and functionality
- Creating and setting up your project plan using an existing template or starting from scratch
- Estimating techniques: Established methods to estimate resources, effort, and timelines
- Entering tasks using a work breakdown structure (WBS) and setting up dependencies between tasks
- Resource loading and leveling: Adding people to tasks, assessing workloads
- Updating your schedule during project execution to track performance and assess work completed v work remaining
- Monitoring and controlling the project: Adjusting your schedule based on unforeseen circumstances such as delays, schedule slips, loss of resources, and scope changes
- Critical Path and Critical Chain
- Managing the project budget, including earned value techniques
- Views and Reports: Options for displaying and visualizing your schedule
- Communication, collaboration, and co-authoring project plans
Why you should attend
Microsoft Project is the most widely used project management software in the world. It’s a powerful and highly effective tool used by managers, project leads, and supervisors to successfully plan, organize, and execute projects of all shapes and sizes.
In many organizations, proficiency in Project is a preferred (if not a required) skill for leadership positions. Whether or not you have a personal preference for other tools, being competent in MS Project will give you better prospects for career advancement.
Who Will Benefit
- Project and Program Managers
- Assistant Project Managers
- Aspiring Project Managers
- Project Leads
- Task Leads
- Team Leads
- and Functional/Competency Leads
- Introduction:
- Course Overview
- What is a Project Plan?
- Fundamentals of Project Scheduling
- The competitive field of project management software
- Differences between MS Project versions
- Getting familiar with Microsoft Project
- The MS Project interface
- Core features and commands
- Customizing your interface
- Setting Up Your Project Plan
- Creating a new Project
- Saving, opening and using existing files.
- Setting up Project preferences
- Creating the Project Calendar
- Entering Work Tasks
- Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Importing a WBS into Project
- Automatic and manually scheduled tasks
- Task types: Fixed Work v Fixed Duration v Fixed Units
- Task hierarchies: Tasks and subtasks
- Project milestones
- Deleting and rearranging tasks to adjust your structure
- Relationships Between Tasks: Dependencies and Constraints
- Task dependencies: Predecessors and successors
- Linking your tasks to create a project network
- Leads and lags
- Resources
- Introduction to Project resources
- Estimating techniques: Methods to estimate resources, effort, and timelines
- Creating and importing resource pools
- Assigning people to tasks
- Managing resources: Assessing workloads, overallocations, overtasking, and resource leveling
- Setting costs for resources
- Viewing Your Project Plan
- Introduction to Project Views
- The Critical Path and Critical Chain
- The Gantt Chart and Gantt views
- The network diagram
- Setting up a split view
- Other ways to view your Project
- Managing and Controlling the Schedule
- Baselining the schedule
- Tracking and managing your progress
- Statusing the schedule: How to update status using the correct fields
- Identifying issues and taking corrective action
- Schedule Compression Techniques
- Managing project cost and budget
- Introduction to project cost and budgets
- Applying costs to resources
- Managing your budget
- Applying Earned Value Management techniques
- Reporting and Exporting
- Familiarization with Project Reports
- Printing and exporting options
Speaker Profile
Adrian Cox (MS, PMP, LSSBB) is Vice President at JHT Inc, a US-based aerospace and defense contractor providing leading-edge technology solutions to the US Department of Defense and other federal government agencies.
Adrian has broad leadership experience across defense, education, healthcare, and private sectors that includes: Operations; Business Development; Capture Management & Proposal Management; Quality; Organizational Improvement; Process Modeling & Process Improvement; Earned Value; Succession Planning; Workforce Development; Customer & Stakeholder Relations.
He is a certified PMP and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with over 15 years' progressive experience integrating programmatic financial, schedule, and technical considerations, implementing effective processes and systems, managing multi-million dollar budgets and schedules, assessing performance metrics, and leading successful technical execution to achieve program and financial excellence.
Adrian’s Past and Present Clients Include: • U.S. Department of Defense
• NOAA.
• NASA
• General Electric (GE)
• The City of New York
• U.S. Air Force
• U.S. National Park Service
• U.S. Navy
• National Health Service (NHS) - England, UK
• Shell - Netherlands
• Standard Life - Scotland, UK
Adrian has broad leadership experience across defense, education, healthcare, and private sectors that includes: Operations; Business Development; Capture Management & Proposal Management; Quality; Organizational Improvement; Process Modeling & Process Improvement; Earned Value; Succession Planning; Workforce Development; Customer & Stakeholder Relations.
He is a certified PMP and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with over 15 years' progressive experience integrating programmatic financial, schedule, and technical considerations, implementing effective processes and systems, managing multi-million dollar budgets and schedules, assessing performance metrics, and leading successful technical execution to achieve program and financial excellence.
Adrian’s Past and Present Clients Include: • U.S. Department of Defense
• NOAA.
• NASA
• General Electric (GE)
• The City of New York
• U.S. Air Force
• U.S. National Park Service
• U.S. Navy
• National Health Service (NHS) - England, UK
• Shell - Netherlands
• Standard Life - Scotland, UK