Project 2003 Creating a Project Plan

Objective

Understand the advantages of using Project 2003 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 to complement basic project management skills with the Project 2003 tool. Become familiar with the Project 2003 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 about project management and the components of managing a project.
Understand the benefits of managing a project using Project 2003.
Learn the importance of starting a project right.
Start a new project.
Identify components of the Project 2003 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 2003 views and tables.
Learn how to best approach the planning process.
Enter and modify tasks in the task list.
Enter summary tasks.
Work with the task list outline.
Enter milestones.
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

Virtual classroom - dedicated (up to ten people from the same organization)
($960 per class; contact us for more details)
Virtual classroom - one on one
(Register for a 45-minute 1-on-1 Application Support session. Cost is $70 per student per session. To cover all of the material in this class, we recommend signing up for two back-to-back sessions.)
On-site instructor-led
(Contact us for details)