Introduce project management and MS Project Online Desktop

• Review the project management concepts: deliverable, objectives, planning, project triangle, etc.
• Initialize the project and draw up objectives, constraints and estimates.
• Choose the appropriate units (time and work) and options.
• Understand and customize the MS Project Online Desktop interface.
• Set the options for MS Project and the active project.

Design the project schedule

• Create a project with/without a template.
• Manage the project calendars, tasks, and information.
• Add phases and sub-phases.
• Define durations, milestones, constraints, deadlines, estimates and recurrences.
• Split the timeline and add fixed costs.
• Document the phases.

Involve resources

• Create work, material or cost resources.
• Apply a cost to these resources.
• Consider different types of tasks and assignments.
• Assign resources to tasks, replace and delete them.

Improve planning

• Analyze the schedule with Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
• Map the PERT network.
• Use the Team Scheduler.
• Identify the margins and the critical path.
• Find overburdened resources and consider solutions.

Visualize a project

• Customize the view: sort, filter, and group tasks.
• Manage diagrams: timeline and calendar.
• Change the time scale.
• Customize the graphical look of a task.
• Generate the various reports: planning, assigned tasks, cost analysis.

Manage a project

• Understand the indicators: reference, consumed, required to finish, progress, estimate to finish.
• Manage the baseline schedule.
• Record the status date and progress.
• Compare projected and actual data.

Have oversight over multiple projects

• Combine resources into a list of shared resources.
• Create a master project and add a subproject to it.
• Link tasks within a master project.
• Manage resource overuse.

Intermediate – 3 Days

1450€ face-to-face

1300€ remotely

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