Microsoft Project 2016/19

This course enables you to use Microsoft Project 2016/19 as an effective tool to manage projects more efficiently. Learn the concepts and skills required to plan, track, and report project information.

In this hands-on course, you will enter a project plan, create a resource list, analyze the plan, and track its progress.

Course Content:

• Overview of Project Management and the use of Microsoft Project as a planning tool

• The Microsoft Project 2016/19 ribbon interface

• Creating a Project Plan

• Entering basic and overall project information: setting project preferences, setting the project calendar to reflect holidays and your corporate workdays

• Assign a Project Calendar

• Working with the Project 2016/19 Timeline

• Entering or organizing summary tasks, subtasks and milestones in a project outline

• Editing task information by cutting, copying, pasting and deleting tasks

• Entering the task duration

• Understanding the difference between task duration and resource work

• Setting task dependencies

• Assigning resources to tasks

• Entering resource and material cost data

• Using views and tables to analyze the critical path, solve resource conflicts and reduce the project cost

• Creating custom tables to view selected data

• Using the Microsoft Project filters to view subsets of project information

• Use the Gantt Chart Wizard to format your project and then print the project information you want

• Tracking the project's progress by saving a baseline plan and entering actual data

• Using the predefined Microsoft Project Reports

• Sharing custom objects created for one project with another

Application Overview: Microsoft Project 2016/19

Microsoft Project is project management software. It gives you robust project management tools with the right blend of usability, power, and flexibility, so you can manage projects more efficiently and effectively.

You can stay informed and control project work, schedules, and finances, keep project teams aligned, and be more productive through integration with familiar Microsoft Office system programs, powerful reporting, guided planning, and flexible tools.

Using Microsoft Project, determine the project goals and define the tasks. Next, add information about the sequence, duration, and relationships of the tasks. Then, assign people, equipment, resources, and costs to the tasks. As you enter all of the information, Microsoft Project is calculating the project schedule.

Once the schedule has been determined, you can add, delete, or change any task information, and Microsoft Project will recalculate the schedule to reflect the new data.