MMP-141 - Mastering Microsoft Project Professional 2003-PM Desktop

Course MMP-141

Expert Guidance for Gaining the Most from Project Management Software

Complete software training from project management experts.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Audience
At Course Completion
Prerequisites
Microsoft Certified Professional Exams
Student Materials
Course Outline

Introduction

Learn to use this powerful tool to manage projects. Build plans, create resource-leveled schedules, establish baselines, produce status reports and make clear task assignments. Project managers and team leaders will learn the features of this tool while following the same five-step planning method taught in our Principles of Project Management course. This presentation begins with the basic concepts and leads participants through all the functions they'll need to plan and manage a small to medium-sized project. This 2-day course is loaded with tips for making the most practical use of this tool!

Benefits

• Understand the right way to use the most important features of Microsoft® Project.
• Learn the practical way to practice the discipline of project management.
• Get the hard-won expertise from instructors who are truly experts in the tool.

This outline applies to courses for:

• Microsoft® Project 98
• Microsoft® Project 2000
• Microsoft® Project 2002
• Microsoft® Project 2003

Each version of the course reflects the unique features of that version of the software.

Microsoft® Project 98 and 2000

SQLSoft+ and Versatile continue to deliver training for Microsoft® Project 98 and 2000. If your organization continues to use either of these versions, we are your best source for training. As an added value, our instructors can highlight how the product has changed since these versions were released.

Microsoft® Project 2002 and 2003 Professional and Standard

Project managers that use the most recent versions of Microsoft® Project will learn the most up-to-date strategies for managing projects with this powerful tool. Whether you use this tool as a stand-alone desktop application or a server-based enterprise application, this course presents all the features needed to plan and manage a project.

Return to Top

Audience

Project managers and team leaders who are responsible for building detailed action plans and using them to manage a project.

Return to Top

At Course Completion

At the end of this course, the student will be able to:

• Navigate the application quickly.
• Communicate the project plan clearly and effectively.
• Develop realistic schedules.
• Correctly track the progress of effort, cost, and schedule.
• Model dependencies within and among projects.
• Use summary tasks to get accurate, high level views of the project.
• "Level" resources within and among projects.
• Analyze and apply resource and project calendars correctly.
• Integrate information from multiple projects.

Return to Top

Prerequisites

No prerequisites available.

Return to Top

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

No MCP exam currently exists for this course.

Return to Top

Student Materials

The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook and other necessary materials for this class.

Return to Top

Course Outline

1. Introduction

• The value of project management software
• The project lifecycle:
• A framework for success
• The five-step planning model
• Buttons / tool bar / general navigation
• Understanding views

2. Setting up a new project

• The project calendar
• Change working time
• Project statistics

3. Building a work breakdown structure

• Understanding tasks, summary tasks and milestones
• Organizing the WBS
• WBS number vs. outlining task outline numbers
• Evaluating the WBS
• WBS templates

4. Establish task relationships

• Task dependencies: networks and PERT charts
• Lag, lead and delay
• Formatting the network diagram

5. Making work package estimates

• Duration estimates
• Effort driven scheduling
• Effort and task types

6. Creating an initial schedule

• Critical path analysis
• Schedule constraints
• Crashing a schedule

7. Assigning and leveling resources

• Defining resources
• Realistic resource planning
• Resource leveling

8. Managing the Project

• Tracking field definitions
• Creating the project baseline
• The tracking Gantt
• Entering actual performance data
• Variance
• Percent complete
• Splitting tasks
• Rescheduling work

9. Formatting output and printing reports

• Using the Gantt wizard
• Standard & custom reports
• Managing multiple projects
• Integrating multiple projects
• Consolidating project files
• Resource pools

10. Course summary

Return to Top