MMSPM006: Project Management with Microsoft Project

The course should include essential techniques to plan, control and maximize project efficiency.

Outline:

Essentials of Project

• Components, such as resources, tasks
• Differences among the various versions of MS Project
• MS Project’s ribbon interface and best fit
• Manage project files

Planning Project

• How to use summary tasks to enter information
• How to manual enter, reorder, relate or link tasks and organize
• Create custom information fields
• How to add documents
• Change mode btw manual and automatic

Creating and Managing Deadlines and task calendars

• Using deadlines, constraints and task calendar
• Add and modify deadlines
• Create and modify task calendar, Identify critical tasks

Aligning Resources

• Import resources from company address book
• Manually add resources and assign tasks
• Enter resource cost for workers, equipment and material
• How to edit or add information for your resources

Tracking and managing Project

• Different ways of tracking progress
• How to accurately use status date when updating project tasks
• Apply filters on tasks
• How to use Compare Versions to identify differences btw two versions of same project

Views and Reports

• How to group filter and sort data
• How to compare progress of project and use Timeline
• Use built-in reports and create custom reports
• Critical path and view progress

Integrating Project with other Office applications

• Import date from Excel, SQL server, Access
• How to copy, paste and keep formatting
• Export project data in various file types(spreadsheets and tables)