Microsoft Project 2013 Level 2

Enhance your project management expertise with our Microsoft Project 2013 Level 2 course, tailored for professionals seeking advanced skills in task, resource, and scheduling management.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Advance task management skills with complex scheduling techniques.

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Optimize resource management and resolve over-allocations.

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Master advanced scheduling including baselines and significant changes documentation.

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Customize project formatting and templates for enhanced project presentation.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 1 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Project Managers
  • Team Leaders
  • Business Analysts
  • Program Coordinators

Description

This class is based upon your knowledge of using Microsoft Project. It is designed to advance your knowledge of the tool beyond the basics. It assumes that you have already obtained these skills and knowledge from a previous Level 1 class such as the Project Level 1 class offered by Springhouse. This lesson will also reinforce these basic concepts. Students will learn advanced topics of task management, resource management, scheduling, formatting and other topics.

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Course Outline

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Lesson 1: Review Of Basics

  1. Review of Successful Project Schedule Characteristics

  2. Review of the Steps for a Successful Project Schedule

Lesson 2: Advanced Task Management

  1. Import Outlook Tasks

  2. Effort Driven Scheduling

  3. Task Calendars

  4. Moving and Splitting a Task

Lesson 3: Advanced Resource Management

  1. Document Resources

  2. Over-allocation of Resources

  3. Resource Pools and Generic Resources

  4. Resource Rates - Fixed and Variable

Lesson 4: Advanced Scheduling Techniques

  1. Using multiple baselines and views

  2. Creating an Interim Plan

  3. Documenting Significant Changes

  4. Schedule Updates - Incomplete Work

  5. The Update Project Function

Lesson 5: Advanced Formatting

  1. Filtering

  2. Grouping

  3. Highlighting

  4. Hyperlinks

  5. Outlining Tasks

  6. Displaying WBS Codes

  7. Sorting

Lesson 6: Other Advanced Topics

  1. Creating peer project links

  2. Creating a Master Project

  3. Linking with Master Projects

  4. Master Projects and Shared Resource Pool

  5. Resolving Over-allocations across multiple projects

  6. Shared Resources in Master Projects

  7. Creating a project template

  8. Custom Fields

  9. Creating a custom table

  10. Security

LAB 1 - Project Simulation

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