Microsoft Project 2010 Level 1

Course Aims:

This programme is for you if you are a new user, or you have some knowledge of Project and now want an understanding of how to get the best out of the tool, relative to real projects.

Course Pre-requisites:

Experience in working within the Microsoft Windows environment is essential as well as a reasonable degree of keyboard and mouse proficiency

Course Objectives:

On completion of this course delegates will be able to:

• Use Project effectively, including how to juggle tasks and resources
• Create Gantt charts
• Create and assign resources, conflict levelling and splitting tasks

Course Content:

Introduction and Objectives

Getting started

• Defining the goals and requirements of a project
• What is Project?
• Starting Project
• The Project application window
• Working with the Project Ribbon
• Using Project help information

Define the project

• Setting a project start date
• Working with Project’s working calendar(s)
• Saving a project

Entering a basic task

• Inserting and deleting task information
• Reordering a task list
• Outlining a task list
• Using work breakdown structure codes
• Entering task durations
• Setting milestones

Linking tasks

• Why link tasks?
• Understanding the different types of links
• Applying links
• Working with split task
• Entering lag time
• Identifying the critical path of a project

Assigning resources to tasks

• Assigning resources to tasks
• What is an over-allocation?
• Dealing with over-allocations
• Using level resources tools

Action planning

Review of Programme

Additional task features – task information

• Estimated durations
• Setting a priority to tasks
• Entering deadlines
• Constraining a task
• Using task notes resources
• What is a resource?
• Types of resources
• Entering resources in the resource sheet
• Entering cost rates for resources
• Adding non-working time for resources
• Resource notes

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