Learn the ins and outs of Microsoft Project 2016

Learning Objectives

As this is a hands-on workshop participants will learn by doing. Through a series of class exercises students will be able to:

General navigation and terminology

• Define a Microsoft Project table and differentiate it from a view
• Demonstrate the ability to create custom tables and views
• Identify ways to share or reuse custom tables and views

Calendars

•  Practice updating the project calendar
• Create task calendars and apply them appropriately
• Show, through your class schedule, the impact of the project and task calendars on your schedule
• Demonstrate the effect of changing the working time settings on your schedule

Tasks and Task Relationships

• Practice entering tasks including creating summary and hammock tasks
• Demonstrate how to create a recurring task
• Identify four precedence types and show when to use each
• Define the difference between automatically scheduled and manually scheduled tasks
• Identify task type approaches and determine when each is important to use (i.e fixed duration, fixed work)

Constraints and Deadlines

• Show how to display task constraints
• Create and display deadlines
• Be able to recite the significance of the calendar icon in the indicator column and what to do about it

Resources

• Identify the three resource types and employ each type appropriately in your schedule
• Identify the different cost types available for each task and demonstrate their use in the schedule.
• Practice assigning resources to tasks
• Demonstrate how to replace generic resources with concrete resources (i.e. job titles vs. actual people).
• Identify at least two ways to show whether a resource is overallocated and demonstrate how to resource level

Baselining and Tracking

• Demonstrate how to set a baseline
• Show a couple of different ways to highlight the critical path
• Learn and demonstrate how to update the project status date
• Learn and practice adding actual data to the schedule
• Demonstrate how to re-plan the schedule once actuals have been entered
• Show a view that displays current progress against the baseline

Reporting

• Practice viewing your schedule with different filters and sorts applied
• Demonstrate how to create a group and show its effect in a schedule
• Practice creating several different types of reports with Visual Reports
• Demonstrate how to both import and export between MS Project and Excel

And more!

Note: Depending on time and class experience, this curriculum may be adjusted to accommodate additional advanced topics.

Prerequisites

• Participants should  be familiar with project management concepts such as the triple constraint, Work Breakdown Structures, network diagramming, critical path and slack.

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