This course will be led by an IIL-certified instructor who will outline the benefits of Microsoft Project, provide tips on using various features and common shortcuts, recommend guidelines, and discuss the application of scheduling concepts to manage project work.
This workshop serves as an introduction to the interface and features of Microsoft® Project. It is kept up to date with the framework outlined by Project Management Institute’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide).
This course will be led by an IIL-certified instructor who will outline the benefits of Microsoft Project, provide tips on using various features and common shortcuts, recommend guidelines, and discuss the application of scheduling concepts to manage project work.
Who Should Attend
Team members
Scheduling practitioners
Project leaders
Project managers
Anyone new to Microsoft® Project or with a need to use a scheduling software
Users who manage project in Excel®, PowerPoint®, or Outlook®
What Will You Learn
You’ll learn how to:
Define key scheduling concepts and terms
Effectively navigate the user interface and interpret common views
Configure essential elements of a new schedule
Enter and modify a task list
Set dependencies between tasks
Create a basic resource list and generate assignments
Format targeted areas of the Gantt Chart view
Prepare the schedule for printing
Syllabus
Getting Started
Introductions
Course objectives
Course outline
Navigating the User Interface and Views
The ribbon
The Quick Access Toolbar
General and display options
Major elements on the Project screen
The Gantt chart, calendar, and network diagram views
The help
Setting up a New Schedule
New schedules from blank, templates or other files
The project starting date and forward scheduling
The project standard calendar and exception days
Entering, Modifying, and Outlining Task Data
Task entering options and edition
Unscheduled tasks
Duration estimates for a single task or multiple tasks
Tasks organization
Multi-level outline
Notes to detail tasks
Creating Dependencies by Setting Links
The critical path
Critical path calculation in Project
Dynamic schedules and dependencies
Link tasks in Project
Displaying the critical path
Entering and Assigning Resources
Resource planning
Resource list
Resource assignments
Formatting Gantt Chart View
Format options for text and Gantt charts
Print options
Summary and Next Steps
About IIL
Our deepest purpose as a corporate training company is to enable growth and success of individuals, teams and organizations with long-lasting, high quality learning in a technology-driven world.
International Institute for Learning (IIL) is a leader in the development and delivery of customized learning programs, online conferences, professional certification credit and preparation courses, organizational learning solutions, and consulting.
IIL has forged strategic partnerships with leading global professional certification companies to help teams and professionals advance critical business skills.
Our clients include global corporations, multinational companies, small and medium enterprises, public sector, nonprofits, and the learning public.
Headquartered in New York City, IIL has teams located strategically around the world, a stellar roster of professional international trainers, and award-winning Media and Printing divisions providing end-to-end solutions.
Our Values
At IIL, our core values—Intelligence, Integrity and Innovation—inform all that we do and accomplish with every customer, partner and colleague.
Our Story
Founded by CEO E. LaVerne Johnson, International Institute for Learning is a leading training and corporate solutions firm with headquarters in New York City and wholly-owned operating companies located strategically around the world.
Ms. Johnson launched IIL in 1991 with a vision to provide the highest quality training and business solutions to firms, governments, and nonprofits who seek increased operational efficiency and effectiveness.
Recognizing the tremendous potential of project, program and portfolio management (PPPM) to accomplish that goal, she anchored IIL around PPPM and related disciplines such as Business Agility, Business Analysis, Leadership, Business Relationship Management, Lean Six Sigma, IT Service Management, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), and Sustainability —a focus that remains with IIL today.
One of the first training organizations in the industry to launch live online learning solutions beginning in 2001, IIL today delivers live, virtual training and three global proprietary annual online conferences, attracting professionals, learners, and organizations from around the globe.
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