Microsoft Project Advanced Specialist

Course Overview

Microsoft Project is a project management application, designed to assist project managers in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analysing workloads.

This course is designed to provide delegates with the advanced-level operations of Microsoft Project. After completing this course, you will be familiar enough to use the advanced features of Microsoft Project on a day-to-day basis.

Microsoft Project Advanced

Day 1

• Foundation course Recap Activity
• Modifying and Re-ordering Linked Tasks
• Entering Task Lag or Lead Time
• Assigning Calendars to a Project
• Customising the Project Standard Calendar
• Entering Non-Working Days into the Standard Calendar
• Managing Resource Calendars
• Changing Resource Calendar Working Times
• Re-assigning and Re-allocating Task Resources
• Managing Resource Over-allocation
• Controlling Effort Driven Task Resources
• Displaying the Critical Path and Critical Tasks
• Project Progress and Percentage Completion
• Displaying Project Progress Lines
• Creating and Managing Tables
• Advanced Reports and Modifying Reports
• Importing and Exporting information using MS Project
• Adding Project and Task Hyperlinks
• Custom Fields the Basics

Day 2

• Using and Controlling the Project Timeline
• Assigning Tasks to a Project Timeline
• Exporting a Project Timeline
• Copying a Project Timeline into MS PowerPoint
• Creating a Project Picture Image or Selected Tasks Picture Image
• Formatting Tasks and elements within MS Project
• Linking Text Boxes to Tasks in MS Project
• Resource Pools and Modifying Resource Pools
• Techniques for managing Resource Pools
• Master and Sub Projects
• Linking Sub Projects in a Master Project
• Setting Baselines in Master and Sub Projects
• Modifying Sub Projects
• Programme Management using MS Project
• Setting and Managing Multiple Baselines
• Displaying Multiple Baseline Information and Visual Graphics
• Inserting MS Project Fields
• Using Custom Fields i.e. Date, Number, Text
• Creating and Modifying Lookup Fields
• Creating and Modifying Calculation Fields
• Using Graphical Indicators with Calculation Fields
• Custom Fields and Programme Management