Course Summary
Managing Projects with Microsoft Project
Learn how to get the most out of Microsoft Project
Whether you've never used Microsoft Project or have been using it for years, this course helps you leverage the tool to plan, execute, and controls your projects.
What you will get from this course
- 2-day Managing Projects with Microsoft Project course earns 14 contact hours (PDUs)
- Interactive course provides techniques, best-practices, and special add-on tools
- The course offers an effective combination of lecture, demonstrations, and lab exercises to reinforce key concepts
- Flexible schedules and convenient Bay Area locations
Are you ready to move beyond spreadsheets to manage the complexities of a dynamic schedule? Project and program managers who are faced with the challenge of planning their projects and controlling variance must rely on automated tools to create order out of chaos. Microsoft Project continues to grow as one of the most commonly used tools in project management.
This course presents practical hands-on guidance in the efficient use of Microsoft Project to reduce the time spent on the tool and increase the time available to manage the project. The course content is based on project-management process, not just on software features. Through a combination of lecture, demonstrations, and lab exercises, this course will reinforce the key concepts and techniques of a commonly available, but often-misused, management tool.
More Course Details
Duration
2 days.
Audience
Project and program managers, project coordinators, project team members, IT professionals, IT team members, business and IT managers, team leaders, and product managers.
Additional Notes
Prerequisities
To get the most out of this class you will need a background in Project Management and a basic familiarity with Microsoft Windows and Office
Instructor
Jim J. Park, PMP, is a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz Extension, teaching project management for the business and management department. He has taught public courses in project management for UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley since 1998. Over the past 10+ years, Jim has trained hundreds of Silicon Valley’s technical professionals and managers. He has helped make project management the most successful program at Extension and his courses have consistently been in high demand. His success in the classroom has also created strong demand for on-site corporate training. Jim has provided project management mentoring for companies such as Oracle, Hitachi, PG&E, Lockheed, Kaiser Permanente, Applied Materials, SRI International, Ingersoll-Rand, Symantec, LucasArts, and the U.S. Air Force.
Jim has over 15 years of experience in the software development, IT, pharmaceutical and medical-device industries, with well over a decade of experience focused on managing projects and developing better project management organizations, processes, and tools. He received his Bachelors degree in Materials Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and resides in Redwood City, California.
Why us?
Outline
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- Project Initiation
- Setting up projects effectively
- Requirements, Product Breakdown Structures (PBS)
- Planning
- Defining tasks
- Task outline - work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Gantt charts
- Dependencies and duration estimates
- Milestones
- Defining resources
- Resource sheet
- Naming standards
- Creating assignments
- Resources availability and allocation
- Usage views, reports, and task types
- Resources usage optimization and leveling
- Critical path methodology
- Buy-in/Baseline
- Defining tasks
- Monitoring and Controlling
- Entering actual data, Variance Analysis
- Tracking Gantt View
- Tracking Table
- Corrective Actions
- Scope control and change management
- Entering actual data, Variance Analysis
- Close-out
- Creating templates
- Exporting project data
- Additional topics
- Customizing MS Project views, tables, filters, and fields
- Supporting multiple users
- Add-on tools (WBS, PERT)
- Project Initiation
