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Project
2002 Creating a Project Plan
Objective:
Understand the advantages of using Project
2002 to manage a project and learn to use Project to create a basic
project plan.
Prerequisite
Skills:
- Comfortable
with the Windows environment.
- Familiar
with basic project management concepts.
Course
Description:
In this course, learn how several basic project management skills
work together with using Project 2002 as a tool. Become familiar
with the Project 2002 environment; then learn the right way to start
a project by defining project information, properties, and calendars.
Finally, learn how to add tasks and resources to your project plan.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Learn
what a project is.
- Learn
what project management is and the components of managing a project.
- Understand
the benefits of managing a project using Project 2002.
- Learn
the importance of starting a project right.
- Start
a new project.
- Identify
components of the Project 2002 window.
- Use
the Project Guide.
- Define
project information.
- Change
the properties of a project plan.
- Establish
the project environment.
- Create
and work with a project calendar.
- Save
a project plan.
- Open
an existing project plan.
- Create
a new project using a template.
- Understand
Project 2002 views and tables.
- Learn
how to best approach the planning process.
- Enter
and modify tasks in the task list.
- Understand
task duration and task dependency.
- Understand
autolinking.
- Create
a resource pool and assign resources to a task.
- Print
the task list and resource pool.
- Access
help in Project.
Class
Length:
3.5 hours
Delivery
Options:
Project
2002 Refining a Project Plan
Objective:
Learn to use the capabilities of Project
2002 to refine and improve your project plan.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Familiar with project management concepts and with using Microsoft
Project to create a simple project plan.
(Suggested Course: Project 2002
Creating a Project Plan)
Course
Description:
You have the basics of your project plan down, but now you need
to refine the project with more information. In this course, learn
to refine task relationships, enter lag or lead time, apply constraints,
assign costs, and work with resource information.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Enter
summary tasks.
- Work
with the task list outline.
- View
specific task outline levels.
- Enter
milestones.
- Work
with recurring tasks.
- Modify
task relationships.
- Add
lag and/or lead time.
- Apply
a calendar to a task.
- Split
tasks.
- Apply
task constraints.
- Locate
tasks that cause conflict.
- Resolve
task constraint conflicts.
- Set
a deadline date for a task.
- Use
the Adjust Dates macro.
- Work
with the Resource Information dialog box.
- Understand
resource costs, fixed costs, total costs, and cost accrual.
- Calculate
the work formula.
- Understand
effort-driven scheduling.
- Modify
resource assignments.
Class
Length:
3.5 hours
Delivery
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Project
2002 Analyzing a Project Plan
Objective:
Learn to identify and adjust the critical
path, apply "what-if" scenarios, and locate and resolve
overallocated resources.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Familiar with project management concepts and with using Microsoft
Project to create a basic project plan.
(Suggested Course: Project 2002
Creating a Project Plan and Project 2002
Refining a Project Plan)
Course
Description:
What is a critical path? How do you use the critical path to help
you manage your project? In this course, learn to locate the critical
path and use different methods of shortening the project plan. Also,
learn to analyze your resources and locate and reduce overallocation.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Understand
and determine the critical path.
- Identify
critical tasks.
- View
and modify the critical plan.
- Work
with the Network Diagram.
- Filter
a view to display critical tasks.
- Understand
ways to shorten the critical path.
- Use
PERT Analysis to create "what-if" scenarios.
- Analyze
resources.
- Reduce
resource overallocation.
- Level
your project plan (manually or automatically).
- Analyze
costs.
Class
Length:
3.5 hours
Delivery
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Project
2002 Tracking a Project
Objective:
Learn to track actual data, analyze a
project's progress, and adjust the project plan to its completion.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Comfortable creating and working with project plans.
(Suggested Courses: Project 2002
Creating a Project Plan, Project 2002 Refining
a Project Plan, and Project 2002 Analyzing
a Project Plan)
Course
Description:
Your project is finally underway; now, how do you make sure that
you finish the project on time? In this course, learn several methods
for tracking your project's progress. Then learn how to analyze
the progress of the project and how to adjust the plan when/if problems
arise.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Understand
the tracking process.
- Create
and modify a baseline plan.
- Create
interim plans.
- Clear
the baseline.
- View
baseline plan information.
- Track
actual data and cost information.
- Identify
various methods for tracking task and resource data.
- Understand
how updating tasks affects updating resources.
- Understand
how Project 2002 calculates actual costs.
- Analyze
project progress.
- Display
progress lines for analysis.
- Used
Earned Value analysis.
- Analyze
timescaled data in Excel.
- Revise
the schedule.
Class
Length:
3.5 hours
Delivery
Options:
Objective:
Learn to work with multiple projects by
consolidating projects into one file, inserting subprojects into
one main project plan, and sharing resources with more than one
project plan.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Comfortable with a wide range of Project capabilities.
(Suggested Courses: Project 2002
Creating a Project Plan, Project 2002 Refining
a Project Plan, Project 2002 Analyzing
a Project Plan, and Project 2002 Tracking
a Project)
Course
Description:
As a project manager, do you typically manage more than one project
at a time? Do you have a project that shares resources with other
projects? In this course, learn how to work with multiple projects
by consolidating projects into one file, inserting subprojects into
one main project plan, and sharing resources with more than one
project plan.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- View
multiple projects.
- Save
a workspace.
- Copy
information between project files.
- Combine
multiple project files.
- Insert
subprojects into a master project file.
- View
and update subproject information.
- Update
subprojects and master projects.
- Delete
a subproject.
- Link
tasks in separate project files.
- Break
large projects into more manageable, smaller projects.
- Share
resources in multiple projects.
- Analyze
multiple projects.
Class
Length:
3.5 hours
Delivery
Options:
Project
2002 Customizing Project Plans
Objective:
Learn to format and customize a project
plan for more effective communication to the project team.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Comfortable with a wide range of Project capabilities.
(Suggested Courses: Project 2002
Creating a Project Plan, Project 2002 Refining
a Project Plan, Project 2002 Analyzing
a Project Plan, and Project 2002 Tracking
a Project)
Course
Description:
Project 2002 offers a wide variety of ways to view your project
plan, but sometimes the application still does not provide exactly
what you want. In this course, learn to customize fields, tables,
filters, views, and reports, giving you the ability to personalize
your project plan to help best communicate it to your project team.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Understand
databases and views.
- Create
custom fields in a project plan.
- Use
graphic indicators.
- Customize
tables.
- Customize
filters.
- Customize
groups.
- Customize
views.
- Use
Project's predefined reports.
- Create
custom reports.
- Use
the Organizer to copy, rename, and delete items.
Class
Length:
3.5 hours
Delivery
Options:
Objective:
Learn to use features and functionality
of Project 2002 to increase efficiency.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Comfortable creating and working with project plans.
(Suggested Courses: Project 2002
Creating a Project Plan and Project 2002
Refining a Project Plan)
Course
Description:
In this course, learn some tips and shortcuts that will enhance
the way you use Project 2002. You will learn to format your project,
work with custom WBS numbering and outline numbering, sort and filter
data, and import and export your project data in various ways.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Use
keyboard shortcuts to scroll the spreadsheet and bar chart.
- Save
time with shortcut menus and mouse options.
- Learn
tips for formatting a project plan.
- Identify
available Format menu options.
- Format
the Gantt Chart by modifying the fonts, text styles, bars, timescale,
gridlines, and layout features.
- Create
custom Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) numbering.
- Define
custom outline numbering.
- View
specific task outline levels.
- Change
print and page setup options.
- Use
find and replace.
- Sort
tasks and resources.
- Apply
filters to a view.
- Export
project data into other programs.
- Export
your project plan as an HTML document or graphic image.
- Import
data into Project 2002.
Class
Length:
3.5 hours
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