Microsoft Project 2019: Introduction

Course Overview: 

Welcome to Microsoft® Project 2019: Introduction. This course is designed to familiarize you with the basic features and functions of Microsoft Project Professional 2019 so you can use it effectively and efficiently in a real-world environment.

This course covers the critical knowledge and skills a project manager needs to create a project plan with Project 2019 during the planning phase of a project. In other words, if your supervisor assigns you to lead a project, this course will enable you to draft a project plan with Project 2016/365 and share it with your supervisor (and others) for review and approval.

Target Student: 

This course is designed for a person with an understanding of project management concepts and who is responsible for creating and maintaining project plans. The course will give the student a fundamental understanding of Microsoft Project 2019 necessary to create and save project plans.

Prerequisites: 

To ensure your success in this course, you should have basic project management knowledge and skills. The following CompuTrain course can help you in meeting this requirement: Project Management Fundamentals (Second Edition).

You should also have basic knowledge and skills for using any current Windows® operating system—preferably Windows 10.

The following CompuTrain courses can help you meet this requirement:

• Using Microsoft® Windows® 10

• Microsoft® Windows® 10 Transition from Windows® 7

Finally, you should have competency in using other Microsoft Office applications—preferably Office 2019/365. You can take any of the Office 2019/365 course offerings from CompuTrain to attain the requisite knowledge and skills.

Course Objectives

• In this course, you will learn to create and engage in basic management of a project using Microsoft Project Professional 2019.

You will:

• Identify project management concepts and navigate the Project 2016/365 environment.

• Create and define a new project plan.

• Create and organize tasks.

• Manage resources in a project plan.

• Finalize a project plan.

• Update a project plan to reflect progress as you execute the project.

• Monitor project progress in the project plan.

• Adjust the project plan to control constraints.

• Create project reports to share a project’s status.

• Customize project settings and share customizations with other projects.