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Master Microsoft Project: Plan, Track, and Deliver Successful Projects

Like any other profession, project management has its own tools. If you work as a project manager, you need to have your tools which enable you to get your work done.

You need to have a tool to help you create WBS, determine activities durations, relationships between activities, determine project resources, assign resources to activities, create project schedule, determine project critical path and create project budget.

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Master Microsoft Project: Plan, Track, and Deliver Successful Projects

Like any other profession, project management has its own tools. If you work as a project manager, you need to have your tools which enable you to get your work done.

You need to have a tool to help you create WBS, determine activities durations, relationships between activities, determine project resources, assign resources to activities, create project schedule, determine project critical path and create project budget.

Learn Microsoft Project from basics to advanced features. Master project management skills, create effective schedules, allocate resources, and track progress efficiently.

Course Overview

In this comprehensive course, you'll gain hands-on expertise in Microsoft Project, the industry-leading project management tool. Our step-by-step tutorials cover:

1. Setting up projects: Creating new projects, understanding project calendars, and setting base calendars.

2. Task management: Creating and linking tasks, setting dependencies, and assigning resources.

3. Resource allocation: Assigning and leveling resources, understanding resource utilization.

4. Scheduling: Creating Gantt charts, setting deadlines, and understanding critical path.

5. Budgeting: Creating project budget and determining the cost of each activity.

6. Tracking progress: Baseline creation, tracking actual work, and understanding earned value management.

7. Microsoft Project views: Understand different views for Microsoft Project.

8. Real-world applications: Practical examples and case studies to reinforce learning.

9. Creating Reports: Learn how to create different reports using Microsoft Project.

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What's inside

Learning objectives

  • Learn how to create a comprehensive project management plan
  • Learn how to track the project progress according to the project management plan
  • Learn how to create project reports and track variances
  • Learn how to create work breakdown structure wbs
  • Learn how to create tasks and how to sequence them
  • Learn how to create calendars non-working days for the project or for each resource
  • How to determine relationships between tasks and their duration
  • Learn how to determine needed resources, their calendars and rates
  • Learn how to assign resources to tasks
  • Learn how to create a project schedule
  • Learn how to determine over-allocated resources
  • Learn how to create a project budget
  • Monitor project progress determine start &end dates &percent complete for each task
  • Earned value management
  • Learn how to create different project views
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Syllabus

Learn more about the organization, the instructor, what is expected from Microsoft Project and its interface
About the Organization
About the Instructor
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FAQs
Setting Expectations
Microsoft Project Interface
Learn how to set the stage for the new project
How to Start a New Project
How to Set Working Times
Learn how to create a project scope and add it to Microsoft Project
Introduction to Project Scope
How to Create WBS
Overview about Tasks
Adding Tasks to Microsoft Project
Setting a WBS Code
Learn how to manage relationships and dependencies between tasks and tasks duration
Relationships Between Tasks
Task Duration
Task Details
Learn how to estimate resources, resources types and assign them to tasks
How to Add Resources to MS Project
Example for adding resources to project
Assigning Resources to Tasks
Resources Details
Learn how to create project schedule and determine the project's critical path
Resource Allocation
Schedule Constraints
Critical Path
Learn about project cost types and how to estimate project costs
Types of Cost
Bottom-Up Budgeting
Top-Down Budgeting
Planning for Overtime
After you finalize the project plan and baseline your project, you need to update the project progress and monitor the status of your project
Project Baselining
Updating Project Progress
Monitoring Project Schedule
Earned Value Management
Updating Baselines and Overtime
Do you know that you have 27 different views in Microsoft Project? In this section, you will learn how to use them and customize project views as needed.
Microsoft Project Views
Customizing Project Views
Creating reports is very important in project management. Microsoft Project has a variety of reports about project progress, costs, resources, allocation,..etc.
Organizing Project Data
Project Reports
You can make your life easier with AI. It will save your time and efforts. Let's learn how to use Microsoft Copilot as an AI tool with Microsoft Project
Using AI
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