Microsoft Project 2016 Level 1

Master Microsoft Project 2016 to enhance your project management skills and efficiently manage tasks, perfect for Project Managers, Coordinators, and Schedulers aiming to streamline their workflows.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Understand project management fundamentals and effectively navigate Microsoft Project 2016.

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Design and modify task relationships and schedules using project management techniques.

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Implement resource and cost management strategies within project environments.

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Analyze and resolve project scheduling and resource allocation conflicts.

Format

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

Audience

  • Project Managers
  • Project Coordinators
  • Project Schedulers
  • Aspiring Project Management Professionals

Description

​Project management is a process of organizing, scheduling and managing multiple tasks. Come learn how to use Microsoft Project 2016 to effectively assist you with your project planning and management.

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LESSON 1 – INTRODUCTION

  1. The Project 2016 Interface

  2. The Ribbon

  3. Access project information anywhere

  4. Skype® integration

  5. The vertical and horizontal dividers

  6. The Backstage

  7. Project Options

  8. Status bar

  9. Quick access toolbar

  10. ACTIVITY 1 EXPLORING THE PROJECT 2016 INTERFACE

  11. Steps for a Successful Project Schedule

LESSON 2 - SETTING UP THE SCHEDULE

  1. Enabling the Project Summary Task

  2. Setting the Project Finish Date

  3. Setting the Project Start Date

  4. Establishing the project Calendar

  5. Base calendars

  6. Identifying non-working days

  7. Multiple base calendars

  8. Saving the Project Schedule

  9. Saving the project schedule for previous project releases

  10. Saving the project schedule

  11. ACTIVITY 2 PROJECT SCHEDULE CONFIGURATION

LESSON 3 - ENTERING PROJECT TASKS

  1. Task Scheduling Methods

  2. Determine how tasks will be scheduled

  3. ACTIVITY 3 SWITCHING TO AUTO SCHEDULED MODE

  4. Entering Project Tasks

  5. WBS – Work Breakdown Structure

  6. Summary tasks

  7. Detail tasks

  8. Recurring tasks

  9. Milestones

  10. ACTIVITY 4 ENTERING PROJECT TASKS

  11. The Scheduling Formula

  12. Task Types

  13. ACTIVITY 5 SETTING TASK TYPES

  14. ACTIVITY 6 ESTABLISHING TASK HIERARCHY

  15. Duration and Work

  16. ACTIVITY 7 ENTERING TASK DURATIONS

  17. Deleting and Inactivating Tasks

LESSON 4 – LINKING TASKS

  1. Linking Tasks

  2. Benefits of using task dependencies

  3. Predecessor / successor relationships

  4. The four dependency options

  5. Linking tasks

  6. Lags and leads

  7. The Network Diagram view

  8. ACTIVITY 8 ENTERING TASK DEPENDENCIES

  9. Constraints

  10. Deadlines

  11. The Critical Path

  12. ACTIVITY 9 ENTERING A DEADLINE AND CONSTRAINT

LESSON 5 – RESOURCES

  1. Creating Resources

  2. Resource types

  3. Work resource

  4. Resource calendars

  5. Material resource

  6. ACTIVITY 10 ENTERING PROJECT RESOURCES

  7. Defining a resource's availability

  8. Individual resource calendar exceptions

  9. ACTIVITY 11 ENTERING RESOURCE CALENDAR EXCEPTIONS

LESSON 6 – TASK ASSIGNMENTS

  1. Task Assignments

  2. Assigning resources directly using the Gantt chart view

  3. Assigning resources using the Assign Resources dialog

  4. Using the Team Planner

  5. ACTIVITY 12 ENTERING RESOURCE CALENDAR EXCEPTIONS

LESSON 7 – SCHEDULE UPDATES

  1. Schedule Updates

  2. The Task Inspector

  3. Resource allocations

  4. Maximizing resource usage

  5. ACTIVITY 13 RESOLVING OVER-ALLOCATIONS

LESSON 8 – BASELINING

  1. Baselining a Project Schedule

  2. Multiple baselines

  3. ACTIVITY 14 BASELINING THE PROJECT SCHEDULE

  4. Updating Tasks

  5. Identifying an update process

  6. Setting and displaying the Status Date

  7. Entering a task's completion percentage

  8. Updating the Project

  9. ACTIVITY 15 RECORDING PROJECT PROGRESS

LESSON 9 – REPORTING

  1. Reporting in Project 2016

  2. Visual Reports

  3. ACTIVITY 16 EXPLORING REPORTS

  4. The Timeline view

  5. ACTIVITY 17 USING THE TIMELINE FEATURE

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