Microsoft Project Training
In a dynamic hands-on environment, students will be taught how to effectively plan, track, communicate and control projects with Microsoft Project. Utilizing a detailed reference manual and realistic project scenarios, students will be coached in the best techniques for rapidly building and managing project schedules. This course is  taught by instructors who have used this tool to successfully manage projects for over 10 years.
During class, you will create a project schedule to help you learn and practice essential scheduling techniques to allow you to track your projects effectively and efficiently.
At the end of this course, you will be able to utilize Microsoft Project in order to:
- Setting up a project schedule
- Building accurate schedules with visible deliverables
- Customizing entry forms and reports
- Assigning resources and estimates
- Calculating and managing the Critical Path
- How to use the leveling capabilities of the tool to plan and control projects.
- Tracking and Re-planning
- Roll up of information from the task level to the Project level as well as consolidating information across multiple projects.
- Improving communications and decision making through accurate reporting
Students are provided with a set of views\reports that they can utilize within their own organization to effectively plan, track and control projects. They also receive a comprehensive reference manual and Quick Reference Guide that can be used after the course is completed. Telephone support after the class is free of charge.
This course is intended for project managers, project leaders or any individual who needs to plan, track and analyze project data in Microsoft Project. They should be trained in project management principles knowledge.
To ensure that students receive maximum coaching and mentoring, the onsite tool training classes are limited to 12 students.
 Onsite Training is Available!
Advanced Techniques for Microsoft Project Training
This two day workshop will provide you with an opportunity to learn how to utilize the advanced functionality of Microsoft Project. You will learn how to use the multiple project capabilities to link projects and manage scarce resources. You will learn the secrets of building reports and views that match your work style. Our instructors each have over 15 years of experience implementing and using Microsoft Project to schedule and control their own projects and programs. Their experiences coupled with the tips and views that you will receive during this training will prove invaluable to you.
Topics that are covered:
- Best practices in setting defaults for your projects and programs
- The secrets for rapidly developing accurate and detailed schedules in MS Project
- Creating master projects
- Working with multiple projects
- Cross project linking
- Creating and utilizing resource pools
- Resource Leveling
- Customizing Views and Reports
- Developing Filters and Groups
- Data Importing and Exporting
- Creating dashboard reports
- Advanced Tracking and Earned Value Analysis
- Variance Analysis
- Generating / Reviewing S-Curves
- Re-planning using Crashing and Fast Tracking Techniques
- Fast Tracking
If you are managing large projects and/or programs, or if you want to “tame” Microsoft Project’s decision support functionality so that you can lead large projects and programs, then this program is for you.
Microsoft Project Implementation
Managing the organization’s portfolio of strategic programs and projects is critical to the success of any organization. PMLG can assist you with rapidly identifying and linking all of your programs and projects to your organization’s strategic initiatives.
At the same time we will help you identify the status of each project based on hours remaining, cost vs. budget, and schedule vs. baseline. We can quickly help you implement a method for prioritizing your projects based on such critical factors as strategic value, project size and complexity and resource availability.
We can also help you implement such powerful Enterprise-wide tools such as Microsoft Project Server 2003 and Workbench. Contact us on how we can provide you with rapid and effective implementation of this important process and its related tools.
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