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All
of the courses in this curriculum are 90
Minute Workouts®. Click
a course title below for more information. (Note: Project
2000, 2002,
and 2003 classes are also available.) |
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is recommended that students take the Project 98 courses in
sequence. The courses are listed below in the recommended order.
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Objective:
Discover the exciting new features available in Project 98 and
learn how they can be applied to a project.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Familiar with a previous version of Project.
Course
Description:
Do you want to learn the exciting new features available in
Microsoft Project 98? This workout is designed for people who already
have a good understanding of earlier versions of Microsoft Project
and want to learn what's new!
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Learn
how Project 98 is integrated with Office 97.
- Use
the View Bar to quickly move between the various views.
- See
how the new Task Usage and improved Resource Usage views can benefit
you.
- Use
the PERT analysis tool, task splitting, and improved constraint
features to improve your task management.
- Learn
how Project 98 has dramatically changed your ability to manage
resources and their assignments.
- Test
out some of the new analyzing and tracking tools available in
Project 98.
- Learn
how to manage several projects at once using the improved inserting
and cross-linking features.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
Objective:
Learn the advantages of using Microsoft Project 98 software
to manage your project. Become familiar with the Project 98 environment,
views, tables, and forms.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Course
Description:
Are
you struggling with incorporating software as a project management
tool with basic project management skills? In addition to learning
basic project theory and terminology, you will learn how to incorporate
Project 98 software with the management of your project to make
your project run more efficiently.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Understand
basic project management theory and terminology.
- Determine
the role of the project manager.
- Identify
three components of managing a project.
- Learn
the benefits of using Project 98 as a project management tool.
- Navigate
through the various views in order to get a clear picture of your
project.
- Learn
to apply tables to the views.
- Save
time using the shortcut menus or the mouse.
- Learn
how to set up the project to print the way you want.
- Know
how to access the improved on-line help feature.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
Objective:
Learn the steps to define project information and properties
when starting a project. Set the environment, calendars, and create
templates of your project plan.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Course
Description:
Have
you ever started a project and later found errors that you didn't
know how to fix or didn't know how they got there in the first place?
In this workout, you learn the right way to start a project by correctly
defining the project information. This workout in designed for those
students who are new to and experienced with Project 98.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Understand
why you need to correctly define the project from the very beginning.
- Define
the project information at the time you create a new project.
- Learn
how to change the properties of a project plan.
- Establish
the project environment.
- Define
the working hours and days of your project.
- Save,
open, and close your project plan.
- Learn
how to save an existing plan as a template and then use the template
to create a new project.
- Use
the Organizer to copy custom-made calendars from one project to
another.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
Objective:
Learn to enter tasks, estimate and enter duration of tasks,
use a work breakdown structure, and outline your project plan.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Course
Description:
Scheduling
tasks should be easy, but why do you get errors? This workout shows
you how to correctly enter tasks and duration. Learn how to estimate
duration using a new feature called the PERT Analysis. You will
also use the work breakdown structure and project outline.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Identify
the two approaches to project planning.
- Enter
tasks into your project plan.
- Modify
your task list by selecting, moving, copying, inserting, and deleting
tasks.
- Enter
task duration manually and also by using the new PERT analysis
method.
- Learn
how to enter milestone, recurring, and summary tasks.
- Work
with the outline feature to display or hide task levels.
- Work
with tasks in views other than the Gantt chart.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
Objective:
Learn to manage your task list by applying the appropriate task
relationships, entering lag or lead time, and applying a task constraint.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Course
Description:
What
do you do with the tasks after you have entered them into your project?
Learn how to manage your task list by applying the appropriate task
dependencies and relationships, entering lag or lead time, and applying
task constraints.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Understand
the importance of task management.
- Link
tasks together to create a predecessor/successor dependency.
- Understand
the task dependencies with summary tasks.
- Modify
the relationships between tasks to create a realistic timeline.
- Learn
about the benefits and pitfalls of using the Autolinking feature.
- Learn
when to add lag and lead time to your task list.
- Work
with and understand task constraints.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
Objective:
Learn to plan your resource pool, apply different cost rates,
and work with resource availability by changing resource calendars.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Course
Description:
What/who makes your project move to its completion? Unless you are
the only one working on your project, you will want to take this
workout. Learn to create a resource pool, apply different cost rates,
and change resource availability and calendar hours.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Understand
how important resources are to a smooth running project.
- Understand
how resource cost calculates into the total cost of a project.
- Create
a resource pool.
- Set
the resource calendar by assigning a base calendar to the resource.
- Learn
how to specify information pertaining to a specific resource.
- Create
a resource pool template to be used in any new project.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
Project
98 Managing Resources
Objective:
Learn to assign resources to tasks and understand the affects
of changing resource assignments. Learn to modify resource assignments
to make your project plan more realistic.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Course
Description:
Once
you have created your resource pool, you will need to assign them
to your tasks. Learn the most efficient way to assign a resource
to a task and understand the affects of changing the duration, work,
and units applied to a task. This workout is packed with new techniques
for managing resources based on the new features of Project 98.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Determine
the benefits of resource management.
- Identify
the various fields used when assigning resources to a task.
- Understand
how work, duration, and resource units all work together.
- Assign
resources to tasks.
- Understand
resource fields that affect scheduling.
- Modify
resource assignments by adding, changing, removing, or replacing
resources.
- Learn
advanced resource adjustment techniques such as contouring resource
usage, assigning various cost tables, scheduling overtime, and
splitting resource assignment for a task.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
Objective:
Learn to format views, apply filters, sort the project plan,
and set up your project plan for printing.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Course
Description:
Your
project plan looks all right, but how do you fine-tune it to help
you see the most important information in your plan? In this workout,
learn how to format different views, apply filters, sort the project
plan, and set up your project plan for printing.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Discuss
why you would want to format your project plan.
- Format
several aspects of the Gantt chart in order to see information
that is pertinent to you and your project team.
- Learn
how to format features that are unique to the Calendar view.
- Apply
filters to a view in order to see tasks that meet a specified
criteria.
- Learn
how to sort data in a view.
- Set
up your project before printing it.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
Objective:
Learn to locate your critical path by formatting the Gantt and
PERT charts. Also learn to display multiple critical paths and find
methods to shorten (or crash) the critical path.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Course
Description:
What
is the critical path? Learn how to locate the critical path by formatting
your Gantt Chart or working in the PERT chart. Also learn how to
display multiple critical paths and methods for shortening (or "crashing")
the critical path.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Identify
the critical path and discover how it affects your project planning.
- View
the critical path using the Gantt chart and PERT chart views.
- Filter
a task view to display the critical tasks.
- Work
with multiple critical paths.
- Learn
ways to shorten or "crash" the critical path.
- Analyze
resource assignments that can help shorten the critical path.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
Objective:
Learn to analyze the project plan by focusing on tasks. Learn
different methods with which to identify tasks that are causing
scheduling problems or errors. Then learn to make the appropriate
adjustments where needed.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Course
Description:
Looking
over your project schedule before you ever start the project is
essential for helping a project run smoothly. Learn how to analyze
the project plan by focusing on the tasks and scheduling, and then
how to make appropriate adjustments where needed.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Understand
the importance of analyzing tasks before you begin your project.
- Learn
how to change the task types.
- Split
tasks in order to resolve task conflicts.
- Use
several techniques to resolve task constraint conflicts.
- Use
the "adjust dates" macro to reschedule an entire project
that has been put on hold.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
Objective:
Learn to analyze the project plan by focusing on resources and
costs. Learn how to locate overallocated resources and overbudgeted
resources. Then learn to make the appropriate adjustments where
needed.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Course
Description:
Once
you have analyzed and rescheduled your tasks, you will want to focus
on the resource and cost information. In this course, learn how
to resolve overallocated resource and cost issues within the project
plan.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Understand
the importance of analyzing resources before you begin tracking
your project.
- Identify
ways of viewing the resource workload.
- Locate
resource overallocation using different views.
- Use
various techniques to manually reduce resource overallocation.
- Level
your project plan to solve resource overallocation.
- View
and analyze individual resource costs.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
Objective:
Learn the different methods used for tracking your project plan
to ensure that you finish the project on time.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Course
Description:
Your
project is finally underway; now, how do you make sure that you
finish the project on time? Learn several methods for tracking your
project's progress.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Understand
the tracking process.
- Create
a baseline plan using the planning wizard or the menu command.
- Discover
where you can view the baseline plan information once a baseline
has been set.
- Track
task and resource data using several methods.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
Objective:
Learn to analyze the progress of the project and then how to
adjust when/if problems arise.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Course
Description:
Once
you start tracking, how do you adjust your project plan to still
complete your project on time? 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:
- Prepare
to analyze your progress using the project summary task and the
Project Statistics dialog box.
- Apply
tables and filters to views in order to analyze the project plan.
- Use
the earned value analysis tool to determine if your project's
costs are on budget.
- Display
progress lines to graphically see if the project is progressing
as planned.
- Revise
the schedule by rescheduling remaining work.
- Learn
how to export data into Excel so it can be analyzed and graphed.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
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:
Course
Description:
Do
you manage more than one project? Do you have only one project,
but the resources are shared with other projects? Learn how to work
with multiple projects by combining projects into one file. You
will also learn how to insert subprojects into one main project
plan and share resources with more than one project plan.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- View
multiple projects on your screen.
- Insert
a project file into a master project file.
- Combine
multiple projects into one window.
- View
multiple project file information using the Indicators column.
- Break
a large project into smaller project files.
- Link
tasks in separate project files.
- Share
resources in multiple projects.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
Objective:
Learn to customize a table, filter, view, and report, giving
you the ability to personalize your project plan to help communicate
it to your project team.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Course
Description:
Project
98 offers a wide variety of ways to view your project plan, but
sometimes it is not exactly what you want. In this workout, you
will learn how to customize tables, filters, views, and reports,
giving you the ability to personalize your project plan so you can
more effectively communicate it to your project team.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Determine
why you should customize your project plan.
- Understand
the various databases and views in Project 98.
- Create
and use customized tables.
- Create
custom filters to be used in a view.
- Learn
how to create a single or combination view.
- Customize
an existing report or create a new report.
- Use
the Organizer to copy or delete your custom tables, filters, views,
and reports.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
Objective:
Learn to communicate your project plan with your team members
using Workgroup features of Project 98. Learn to save a file as
an HTML document, send team assignments, request status reports,
and send updates through e-mail, the Web, or both.
Prerequisite
Skills:
Course
Description:
It
is important to keep other project team members informed and involved
during the project process. In this course, learn to communicate
your project plan with your team members using Workgroup features
of Project 98. Learn to save a file as an HTML document, send team
assignments, request status reports, and send updates through e-mail,
the Web, or both.
Attend
this course if you want to:
- Understand
the workgroup features.
- Set
up the workgroup communication method.
- Send
and route project files via e-mail.
- Assign,
Update, and Receive Task information via e-mail.
- Use
the TeamInBox and WebInBox.
- Save
your project plan as an HTML document.
- View
your project on the Web.
- Create
hyperlinks in your project plan.
- Publish
your project on the Web.
Class
Length:
90 minutes
Delivery
Format: On-site
instructor-led (contact us for details)
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