Mastering Microsoft Project 2010

In this course, you will learn how Microsoft Project relates to project management, and you will examine the significant updates and visually enhanced features of Microsoft Project 2010.

Course Outline

Use our expert guidance to get the most from your project management software.

In this course, you will learn how Microsoft Project relates to project management, and you will examine the significant updates and visually enhanced features of Microsoft Project 2010. You will use Microsoft Project 2010 to work through the life cycle of a project, from creating a project and selecting the right resources to tracking project progress and creating reports.

You will learn first-hand how to use Microsoft Project 2010's intuitive tools to increase your productivity and better manage projects.

What You'll Learn

• Quickly navigate Microsoft Project 2010
• Use Project to develop realistic schedules
• Use summary tasks to get accurate, high-level views of the project
• "Level" resources within and among different projects
• Use the team planner
• Analyze and apply resource and project calendars correctly
• Manual and auto scheduling
• Integrate information from multiple projects
• Correctly track the progress of effort, cost, and schedule
• Get the most out the new ribbon and the new timeline

Who Needs to Attend
Project managers and team leaders who are responsible for building detailed action plans and for using them to manage a project

Course Outline

1. Introduction
Learn how Project relates to the discipline of project management, and examine the significant new features for Project 2010. Learn how to navigate to the primary view available using the Ribbon. Choose views that display task, resource, or assignment information and much more.

2. A Quick and Easy Overview of Managing with Project
Experience the steps required to create and use Project through the life cycle of a project: create a new project, prepare it for data entry, enter project tasks, sequence the tasks, define and assign resources, estimate task durations, baseline a project, and track project progress.

3. Setting Up a Project
Create a new project and establish the basic constraints that Project will use for its calculations.

4. Manual vs. Auto Scheduling
Learn which Project functions are turned off for tasks using Manually Schedule mode and then change the task mode from manually schedule to auto schedule. Learn how to identify tasks that are in Manually Schedule mode by the task mode icon and shape on the Gantt chart, and get recommendations for the best use of this new feature.

5. Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
Create a useful work breakdown structure and enter it into Project. Use summary and subordinate tasks, understand milestones, develop WBS outlines, and assign completion criteria.

6. Identifying Task Relationships
Learn the rules for establishing dependency links between tasks and be able to use Project to establish and display these dependencies.

7. Defining Resources within Project
Enter resources and resource-related information into Project, including defining individual resources that will be used on the project and recording the costs of using each type of resource.

8. Making Work Package Estimates
Make estimates for tasks including assigning duration and choosing which tasks are effort driven. Explore task types, and learn how to use the Team Planner view.

9. Creating an Initial Schedule
Use critical path analysis to create a schedule, assign scheduling constraints, and know how to "crash" a schedule.

10. Create a Resource-Leveled Schedule
Adjust a project schedule to account for limited people and other resources, view the overall cost and schedule of a project, and identify over-allocated project resources. Explore ways to adjust tasks and assignments to remove over-allocation.

11. Managing the Project
Set a baseline, enter and manage project performance data, pick a tracking method, and perform variance analysis.

12. Formatting Output and Printing Reports
Print a variety of standard and custom reports and be able to format the new timeline. Use the Gantt chart style features, customize the detailed reports, and use the visual reports in this tool.

13. Managing Multiple Projects
Use common resources among multiple projects, link tasks between projects, and create a consolidated view of multiple projects.

14. Advanced Topics
Create custom fields, customize WBS prefix, discover the power of grouping and filtering, and learn how to apply deadlines.

15. Summary

Additional Details

Pre-Requisites

Experience managing projects Project Management Fundamentals or equivalent is beneficial

Certificates offered

3 Day SATV Voucher

Cancellation Policy

We require 16 calendar days notice to reschedule or cancel any registration. Failure to provide the required notification will result in 100% charge of the course. If a student does not attend a scheduled course without prior notification it will result in full forfeiture of the funds and no reschedule will be allowed. Within the required notification period, only student substitutions will be permitted.

Reschedules are permitted at anytime with 16 or more calendar days notice. Enrollments must be rescheduled within six months of the cancel date or funds on account will be forfeited.

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Global Knowledge
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Global Knowledge Calgary
Sunlife Plaza, Suite 200, West Tower
144 - 4th Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta
Canada   T2P 3N5

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- do we get a certifiacate for completing the courseÉ - although the instructor did give us excercises to do I would have liked a few more - almost like a test, so that I made sure I retained and understood what was taught. I`m a learn to do by doing person and like the instrutor lead courses so I can have someone there to explain in my terms how things work. I`ll have to really use the online excercises to make sure Ì am confident when I need to do something in Excel.

Reviewed by Delores P. 2012

   

Should be time allocated for questions and answer

Reviewed by Vinod P. 2012

   

The instructor was excellent as was the hands-on learning approach. The only thing I took issue with was the fact that there were a lot of bilingual persons taking the course and they tended to ask questions in French, during this English class. The instructor was trying very hard to explain everything in both languages, but I felt that these students should have requested a French-speaking classroom setting if they wanted to speak French.

Reviewed by Sheila D. 2012

   

Very professional. Facility clean and comfortable.

Reviewed by Christine P. 2012

   

For the cost of this course, a hard copy of the course handout should be provided as the classes follows the handout word for word.

Reviewed by Caroline P. 2012

   

The facilities at Global Knowledge were great. The Instructor was very knowlegable and made it easy to learn the material. It was a very good experience:)

Reviewed by Tonia L. 2012

   

Note: We had 2 different trainers during this 3 day course. Course: Terminology should reflect North America and be consistent with our business lingo.

Reviewed by Harman M. 2012

   

Found the course very informative. I had little exposure to Sharepoint and learned a number of things I didn't know. Plan to take the next level of training

Reviewed by Michael R. 2011

   

A charged mannul would be provided for students to make notes whereever they think instructions are important as reminders

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The course is so expensive to be payed by oneself. In almost all the others participants their companies pay the fee.

Reviewed by Ricardo T. 2011

   

No course books were provided for us to take.

Reviewed by Hala M. 2011

   

Course was very detailed but more time would be helpful during workshops. An additional day would help lessen the course load.

Reviewed by Roydon F. 2011

   

should have discuss some case studies,,overall A+

Reviewed by Syed A. 2011

   

Our instructor was very knowlegable and he provided excellent real life stories.

Reviewed by Stephen W. 2011

   

The course was very relevant. I was able to apply the knowledge I aquired in the course to my job on the very next day. The only complaint I have is with the temperature of the room. It was freezing! Students has to wear a jacket or sweater. We were told the temp gage was shared with another classroom that was quite warm so they had turned the temp very low causing our room to be very uncomfortable.

Reviewed by Yasmine I. 2011

   

Given the cost of the course, the hardcopy of the manual should have been provided. It would have been useful to make notes alongside the material as we went along.

Reviewed by Jeff P. 2011

   

I am very disappointed with the handouts. I was told I could go online and download a copy of the manual, the problem is that I would like the printed copy of the manual. I chatted online with one of your technitian who was unable to help me. Then I was told someone would contact me by phone to help me. That never happened. When taking a training course, a person EXPECTS to leave the course with ALL the material.

Reviewed by Betty M. 2011

   

Great course provider, keep it on your roaster

Reviewed by Catherine G. 2011

   

Course content and labs were very good, everything worked as expected.

Reviewed by Francisco C. 2011

   

I really enjoyed this course and was surpised how ell everything was run...enjoyed the instructer very much (Par) and would like to take an other course with him. I wish we could have taken the work book home with us though!!!

Reviewed by gail h. 2010