Listed below are the standard modules for an MS Project introduction course. All of these modules are recommended and are designed to bring delegates to a strong practical level of understanding, enabling them to use MS Project to plan and manage a project. The course takes two days.
- Introduction
- Working with views
- Working with tables
- Navigation
- Setting the working environment
- General options
- Calendars
- The Global.mpt file
- Creating the tasks
- Entering summary information
- Defining and entering tasks and milestones
- Structuring the tasks
- Changing the task order
- Outlining
- Breakdown structures
- Entering task duration's
- Scheduling tasks
- Creating task dependencies
- Entering lead and lag times
- Setting deadline dates
- Applying task constraint
- Viewing the schedule
- Viewing the Gantt chart
- Working with the Network diagram
- Resource scheduling
- Entering resource details
- Assigning resources to tasks
- Project Costs
- Reviewing resourcing costs
- Entering fixed costs
- Project evaluation
- Time: Critical Path Analysis
- Resources: Levelling
- Costs
- Errors and inconsistencies
- Baselining
- The project approval process
- Saving a baseline
- Communication
- Reports
- Electronic reports
- Tracking and managing
- Communicating with resources
- Entering project progress
- Displaying actual v plan v schedule
- Displaying variance
- Managing variance
- Communicating the new schedule
- Project closure
- Closing out reports
- Archiving the project