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Setting Up Projects for Success Using Microsoft Office Project 2003 Training Class

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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.

 
     
     
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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
 
     
     
 
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