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MS Project

Microsoft Project is a project management software

program designed to assist project managers in

developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks,

tracking progress and managing budgets and

analysing workloads.

Benefits

Benefits to the Individual

Increased career prospects through expertise of globally popular project management software

Enhanced project management capabilities

Be able to stay on top of ever changing projects

Better manage resources and their availability

Benefits to the Organisation

Increased success in meeting project objectives

Greater understanding by Senior/Executive Managers of what it takes to deliver a project

Increased project governance and control over project delivery

Greater transparency and understanding of project management activities

Increased knowledge of resources workload

Microsoft Project

Introduction Course

Course Duration Course Times Prerequisite Delivery

Introduction 2 Days 8:30-4:30pm None In-House

Course Outcomes

This course will ensure participants are able to:

Understand and use the basic features of MS

Project.

Create a project plan using a Gantt Chart

Set up and use Project & Resource Calendars

Work with and create task relationships, con-

straints and deadlines

Format Gantt Charts

Create, allocate and manage resources

Record, track and evaluate the project progress

Report on the projects progress with Gantt

charts and reports

Recommended for

Project Managers & Project Directors

Project Coordinators & Project Support staff

Project Officers

Project Team Leaders & Team members

Programme / Project Management Office staff

Project Business Analysts

Project Schedulers

Change Managers

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Registration

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Onsite course registrations

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Metapm offers a comprehensive, cost effective suite

of products and services that help organisations

Australia-wide to raise their project management

capability and improve their return on project investment.

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MetaPM offers a comprehensive, cost-effective suite of products and services that help organisations Australia-wide to raise their project management capability and improve their return on project investment.

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Course Content

Introduction to Project

Overview

Getting Started

Starting a Project

Scheduling a Project

The Project calendar

Resource calendars

Tasks and Durations

Creating tasks

Creating Milestones

Outlining a project

Task durations

Task Notes process

Task Scheduling

Task relationships

Relationship types

Lead and lag time

Task constraints

Deadlines Formatting

Text

Bars

Gantt chart wizard Resources

Creating resources

Task types

Assigning resources

Automatically Levelling Resources

Manually Levelling Resources Project Costs

Variable costs

Fixed costs Tracking the Project

Creating Project Baselines

Tracking

What can go wrong Printing

Printing the Gantt chart

Printing Reports

Course Includes

Professional Delivery by MetaPM Training Consultant

MetaPM Course notes

Refreshments

Next Step

MetaPM Microsoft Project courses are

publically delivered on a national scale,

and can also be delivered at client

sites. MetaPM can tailor the material

for in-house courses to groups of 6 or

more to suit individual client needs.

Course dates, pricing, registration

and special offers are available on

our website.

Individual registrations can be made

online. We welcome the opportunity to

quote for in-house group learning

sessions.

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