| |
|
| |
Setting Up Projects for Success Using Microsoft Office Project 2003 Training Class
Course ID: 5245
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Setting Up Projects for Success Using Microsoft Office Project 2003 Training Seminar
Overview: This course focuses on the critical planning stage of a project and how to set a project up for success. Exercises with Microsoft Word and Project demonstrate effective and easy-to-implement techniques to better plan, schedule and allocate resources.
Who Should Attend: This course is designed for career project managers and those professionals for whom project management is an integral part of their daily jobs, and who have a vested interest in improving the effectiveness of project management and the success of projects - often under complex or difficult circumstances. This audience has experience managing projects, but is looking to enhance its project management skills and its ability to handle more concurrent projects or to manage larger and more complex projects.
At Course Completion: After completing this course, students will be able to: - Explain how effective project plans facilitate project success. - Quickly set up project plans that communicate key project information to the entire project team. - Develop schedules in Microsoft Project that communicate the project tasks effectively and accurately. - Assign resources to tasks to obtain the desired results.
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Agenda |
|
| |
Lesson 1: An Introduction to Project Planning
Why Project Plans Are Important Components of a Project Plan Expert Video: Jump-Start Project Success with Planning Discussion: What Makes Projects Succeed or Fail?
|
|
Lesson 2: Preparing an Effective Project Plan
Why Effective Communication Is Important Techniques for Communicating Effectively Demonstration: Using the Outline View in Word to Organize Project Plans Walkthrough: Communicating Project Information Demonstration: Creating a Project Plan Template Building Project Budgets
|
Lesson 3: Building Better Project Schedules
Building an Effective Overall Schedule Building an Effective Gantt Chart Exercise 1: Clearly Communicating Phases, Tasks, Milestones, and Deliverables Best Practices for Communicating Task Detail Exercise 2: Documenting Work Packages Exercise 3: Linking a Task to a Work Package Document Demonstration: Preventing Inadvertent Schedule Constraints
|
Lesson 4: Allocating Resources to Project Tasks
Problems and Opportunities in Resource Allocation How Microsoft Project Calculates Task Values Exercise: Mastering Tricky Resource Assignments How Microsoft Project Levels Resources Putting It All Together: Presenting Project Plans More Effectively
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Pre-requisites |
|
| |
Experience participating in project teams as a project manager, manager, supervisor, team leader, or consultant.
Basic understanding of project management concepts, such as task lists, work breakdown structures, Gantt charts, task dependencies, scheduling constraints, and resource allocation.
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Project
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
| |
Setting Up Projects for Success Using Microsoft Office Project 2003 Training Course Dates and Locations
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Course ID: 5245
| Course Duration: 1 Day
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Locations: |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
| Start Date |
Price |
|
Location/Event Details |
Register Online |
Request More Info |
|
Print/Fax Register |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Select a market segment to view more courses
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Or, select a category to view more Information Technology courses
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Browse By Category
Browse By Location
Browse New Courses
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|