55054-A: Mastering Microsoft Project 2013
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About This Course
Course Description:
This three-day, instructor-led course is intended for individuals who are interested in expanding their knowledge base and technical skills about Microsoft Project. The course begins with the basic concepts and leads students through all the functions they’ll need to plan and manage a small to medium-size project, including how to level resources and capture both cost and schedule progress.
This course will also help students prepare for Microsoft Project 2013 Exam 74-343 Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013.
Learning Objectives
Understand the discipline of project management as it applies to using Microsoft Project 2013.
Create a Work Breakdown Structure.
Identify Task Types & Relationships.
Define Resources within Project.
Make Work Package Estimates.
Create an Initial Schedule.
Create a Resource Leveled Schedule.
Create Projects from templates, Excel files.
Create Global templates.
Create formulas and graphical indicators.
The steps to record a macro.
Format Output and Print Reports.
Integrate Multiple Projects.
Set up a Project with a Calendar, Start date, and scheduling method.
Understand Manually Schedule vs. Auto Schedule.
Manage multiple projects.
Be able to create a master project list with shared resources.
Have a fundamental understanding of how Microsoft Project will help them track their projects.
Understand what is new in Project 2013 and how it will increase their productivity.
Learn how the ribbon will help them get the most of out of this productivity tool.
Learn how to quickly change views and see what is going on with their projects.
Understand the 5 essential steps in building a successful project plan.
Prepare a new project plan and set the date and other basic information.
Enter detailed project information.
Understand how to sequence tasks.
Understand and define basic resource types.
Assign resources to tasks.
Understand the benefits of baselining a project or specific tasks.
Understand the basics of how to track project progress.
Create a new project using a template, Excel, a SharePoint Tasks List or a new Project file.
Establish one or more calendars to constrain resource availability.
Configure Microsoft Project to calculate the schedule from the Start Date forward or from the Finish Date backward.
Understand how to turn on Manually Schedule and Auto Schedule.
Understand when to use Manually Schedule.
Understand the limitations of Manually Scheduling.
Build and use summary and subordinate tasks.
Understand and use milestones.
How to organize the WBS.
How to format the WBS.
Develop WBS outlines.
Assign completion criteria.
Evaluate the WBS.
Understand and use WBS outlines.
Understand how to link Project artifacts to their projects.
Understand how to create notes on tasks.
Understand the different types of task relationships.
Understand and use various methods to create relationships.
Determine and display task sequence.
Understand how to use Lag, Lead and Delay.
Define the different types of resources.
Define individual resources that will be used on the project.
Record the cost(s) of using each type of resource.
Record the limit of availability for each type of resource by establishing a resource calendar and defining the maximum units of that resource.
Assign values for resources, duration and work.
Understand task types.
Understand Effort Driven scheduling.
Understand material resources and their costs to a project plan.
Identify the critical path.
Understand difference between slack and slippage.
Calculate float.
How to leverage constraints.
How to get the benefit from the Task Inspector, and the impact of changes on a project schedule.
Adjust a project schedule to account for limited resources.
View the overall cost and schedule of a project.
Identify resources that are over- allocated for a project schedule.
Use multiple ways to adjust tasks and assignments to remove over- allocation for any resource.
Set a baseline.
Enter and manage project performance data.
Pick a tracking method.
Perform variance analysis.
Sync Projects results with SharePoint.
Create standardized views, with the power of sorting, filtering and grouping.
Customize a variety of standard reports.
Learn how to use Visual Reports.
Export reports in a variety of formats.
Use common resources among multiple projects.
Link tasks between multiple projects.
Create a consolidated view of multiple projects and shared resources.
Take advantage of the advance features of Microsoft Project 2013.
Be able to create a Macro.
Share common settings among all future projects.
Inclusions
- Certified Instructor-led training
- Official Training Seminar Student Handbook
- Collaboration with classmates (not currently available for self-paced course)
- Real-world learning activities and scenarios
- Exam scheduling support*
- Enjoy job placement assistance for the first 12 months after course completion.
- This course is eligible for CCS Learning Academy’s Learn and Earn Program: get a tuition fee refund of up to 50% if you are placed in a job through CCS Global Tech’s Placement Division*
- Government and Private pricing available.*
- *For more details call: 858-208-4141 or email: training@ccslearningacademy.com; sales@ccslearningacademy.com
Pre-requisites
- There are no prerequisites for this course. However, it is helpful to have taken an introductory project management course, such as Versatile’s Principles of Project Management.
Target Audience
- This course is intended for both novice and experienced project managers, managers, schedulers, and other project stake holders who need to incorporate the discipline of project management with Microsoft Project 2013.
Curriculum
88 Lessons24h
Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft Project
This module provides an overview of how the features of Project relate to the job of the project manager. The module also teaches the student how to access different features by navigating through the ribbon.
Module 2: A Quick and Easy Overview of Managing with Project
This module demonstrates the required steps to create and use Microsoft Project 2013 through the life cycle of a project.
Module 3: Setting Up a Project
This module explains how to create a new project and establish the basic constraints that Microsoft Project 2013 will use for its calculations.
Module 4: Manually Schedule vs. Auto Schedule
This module explains how to how to manually schedule project tasks and how to leverage the auto schedule feature.
Module 5: Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
This module explains how to create a useful work breakdown structure and enter it into Microsoft Project.
Module 6: Identifying Task Relationships
This module explains the rules for establishing dependency links between tasks and how to use Project to display these dependencies.
Module 7: Defining Resources within Project
This module explains how to enter resources and specific resource information in Microsoft Project and assign resources to specific tasks.
Module 8: Making Work Package Estimates
This module explains how Microsoft Project calculates task duration, task work (effort) and task resources. Students will be able to choose among three task types as they enter task estimates and they will know which task type is appropriate for the type of estimate they are making.
Module 9: Creating an Initial Schedule
This module explains how Project calculates a schedule based on task relationships and task duration. Students will understand the purpose of identifying critical path tasks and will be able to identify schedule float within the project.
Module 10: Create a Resource Leveled Schedule
This module explains how over-allocated resources create unrealistic schedules and shows methods for rescheduling in order to create a realistic schedule based on resource availability.
Module 11: Managing the Project
This module explains how to use Microsoft Project to control a project. Students will save their plan to a baseline and see how entering actual task performance data enables them to view differences between planned and actual performance.
Module 12: Formatting Output and Printing Reports
Participants will be able to control project output by creating and using Custom Fields, Sorting, Filtering, and Grouping of the project data.
Module 13: Managing Multiple Projects
This module explains how to view many projects as parts of one very large project in order to gain new views on resource availability and task relationships among projects.
Module 14: Advanced Topics
This module explains how to leverage some of the advanced features of Microsoft Project.
Module 15: Summary
This module provides an overview of the topics presented in the course and how to prepare for Microsoft’s exam 74-343 Microsoft Project 2013, Managing Projects with Project 2013.
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Inclusions
- Certified Instructor-led training
- Official Training Seminar Student Handbook
- Collaboration with classmates (not currently available for self-paced course)
- Real-world learning activities and scenarios
- Exam scheduling support*
- Enjoy job placement assistance for the first 12 months after course completion.
- This course is eligible for CCS Learning Academy’s Learn and Earn Program: get a tuition fee refund of up to 50% if you are placed in a job through CCS Global Tech’s Placement Division*
- Government and Private pricing available.*
- *For more details call: 858-208-4141 or email: training@ccslearningacademy.com; sales@ccslearningacademy.com
