Course Description

This course is designed to cover all the features and aspects of Microsoft Project Professional and Project Online from a Project Manager's perspective. Knowledge of Office 365 would be an advantage but is not essential. Attendees will have access to Microsoft Project Professional and Project Online during the training, although delegates are welcome to bring thier own device with Microsoft Project Professional already installed.

Who Should Attend

Users who would be responsible for managing, maintaining and executing Projects and acting in the capacity of a Programme or Project Manager. This course is tailored to Project Managers in the Commerical and Residential Construction industry. Anecdotal evidence of how other businesses in this industry sector have adopted the solution will be discussed. Example project plans of Site Construction, Residential Construction, Office Moves, Health and Saftey compliance and risk assessment (amongst others) will be covered.

Course Topics

This course is designed for those who will use Microsoft Project Professional with Project Online as a tool to assist them in managing projects and programmes. The topics in this course cover the core skills necessary to create and modify a project plan with tasks containing task relationships, constraints and deadlines. You will also learn how to create and assign resources, baseline and update the schedule, as well as how to connect to and use Project Online (Project Web App).

Getting Started with Project:

• The Project Professional & PWA interface - Setting Online Accounts
• Working with views
• Creating projects & using templates
• Changing project information
• Project attributes
• Setting the project calendar
• Automates vs. Manual scheduling
• Outlining tasks & WBS
• Editing task details
• Adding tasks to the timeline
• Working with summary tasks and the project summary task.
• Saving a project plan.
• Working (draft) vs Published)

Creating a Detailed Project Schedule:

• Opening projects
• Understanding task types
• Setting task dependencies
• Understanding Critical Path
• Using constraints and deadlines
• Using filtering and grouping
• Using the Task Inspector
• Setting and understanding baselines

Managing Resources:

• Understanding resource types
• Building the Team
• Using the Enterprise Resource Pool and assigning resources
• Working with material & cost resources
• Viewing resource assignments
• Viewing resource workloads and capacity.
• Resource Costs

Updating a Project:

• Understanding the impact of updates & the Approval Cycle
• Viewing tasks and updating progress
• Replacing Assignments
• Inactivating a Task

Reporting in Microsoft Project:

• Create a New Report
• Creating Dashboards
• Printing a Project or Report

Project Web App:

• Project Center & project drilldown
• Resource Center
• Tasks List
• Status Reports
• Views, grouping and filtering
• Collaboration in the Project Site
• Issues, Risks and Documents
• Tracking changes
• Version control on documents
• Elevated permissions
• Publishing project plans
• Editing in the browser vs client

We provide:

• Highly experienced trainers with‘real-world’ experience

• Access to online ‘how-to’ videos

• Comprehensive course materials (electronically provided)

• 30 days free support post-training

• Dedicated site within PWA for hosting materials and exercises.

• Exclusive Whitepapers, articles and information.

• Course certificate on completion of training for all delegates.

• Hand-on experience with graduated exercises to ensure maximum learning impact.