Project Planning and Scheduling using Microsoft Project
Rushing against time?
Sound planning & scheduling of a project is the key to successful
implementation. With computer tools like Microsoft Project, you can excel in
project management. This highly practical course might be the one for you.
This
course emphasizes the key elements of the project plan – the project work
breakdown structure (WBS), project cost estimates and budgets, project
schedules, and resource assignment tools. Participants will also learn
techniques to set plan baseline, track and monitor project performance using
Earned Value Management practices and prepare reports.
The Microsoft Project
software covers in this course will enable you to develop and present your
project plan, master the tools for managing schedules and resources
effectively, identify critical paths and manage multiple projects with
dependencies, track progress and costs and make real-time adjustments. The
Collaboration Options of Microsoft Project allow companies to communicate and
collaborate on projects internally within the organization and externally with
their stakeholders. Together with the complementary use of Web Technology in
planning, scheduling and controlling, companies can significantly improve their
workgroup productivity and more efficiently access and analyze business
information
Who should attend: Whether you are working as a human
resource, strategic, middle or operational manager, taking this workshop will
develop your skills in all aspects of successfully completing projects. It is
suitable for anyone who has responsibility for coordinating projects, meeting
goals and targets as part of their work.
• Project Managers,
executive, administrators, supervisors and officers who are in need to grab a
software tool to manage project effectively and increase productivity.
Two
sessions of courses using the Microsoft Project will be carried out in a
consecutive of 2 days:
Managing
Projects with Microsoft Project – Standard
Managing
Projects with Microsoft Project – Advance
First course: Managing Projects with Microsoft Project – Standard
Objective
This
course is to provide the participants with a sound knowledge in project
scheduling and monitoring. The use of critical path method (CPM) & PERT,
control of project time and resources allocation techniques are actively dealt
with. The emphasis of the course is on the practical use of Microsoft Project
supported with 8hours devoted hands on practice sessions. Discussion will be
centered on 8 main diversify industries.
Microsoft
Project provides the power and flexibility to plan and track projects and meet
your business needs. With the Collaboration option, team members can
communicate and collaborate on projects across an organization and other stake
holders. With the use of web technology in project planning, scheduling and
controlling, the company can significantly improve their workgroup productivity
and more efficiently access and analyze important business information.
Participants will learn the software through practical exercises with one
participant to a terminal hand on session.
Course Outline
Part
A: The Project Scheduling Techniques
·
The three phases of project management
·
Project Scheduling Techniques – gantt
chart, CPM and PERT, critical path analysis.
·
Gantt Chart and critical path
·
Activities time estimation
·
Critical path analysis
·
Assign resources and resource levelling
·
The probability of project completion
on time
·
Normal and crash time relationship
(project crashing)
·
Time-cost Trade-off and optimization
·
Practical exercises.
Part
B: Microsoft Project: Basic features and functions
·
Entering and scheduling tasks
·
Working with calendars
·
Gantt Chart and Network Diagram (PERT
CHART)
·
Set baseline
·
Assign resources and resource levelling
·
Tracking and monitoring of project
·
Printing of views and tables and
producing status reports
·
Customized table
·
Collaboration and enabling workgroup
features,
·
Customized table, producing status
reports,
·
Practical exercise
Second course: Managing Projects with Microsoft Project – Advance Course objective:
This
course is to provide the participants with advance techniques in project
scheduling & monitoring using Microsoft Project . Microsoft Project
provides the power and flexibility to plan and track projects and meet your
business needs. The course is focusing in more advance functions and feature of
the application; the participants will be expected to have some basic skill in
Microsoft Project. Skills introduced in the basic course are reinforced and
participants will then learn the new and more advance functions and features
through practical exercises with one-to-one terminal hands on session.
Course Outline
After
the basic skills are learned in the basic course, the following new and more
advance functions and features are introduced:
Fine
tuning the project plan and information
Setting up the recurring tasks
·
Setting tasks constraints
·
Shifting tasks in projects
·
Use of elapse time, hr and day etc
·
Interrupting work on tasks
·
Define code for work breakdown
structure (WBS), develop and use custom code
·
Customizing fields (columns) with
formulas (create in cell formula like Microsoft Excel)
·
Assign material resources, measurement
such as tons or kilometer etc.
·
Sorting, grouping and filtering project
information
·
Tracking progress the project plan
·
Project Progress/Cost Monitoring
·
Controlling project cost using BCWS,
BCWP and ACWP
·
Project monitoring using the Cost
Variances (CV) and schedule variance (SV)
·
Advance customization of MS Project
2010.
Price per person: RM 2,000.00
15% Discount for 5 participants above..
Price per person: RM 2,000.00
15% Discount for 5 participants above..
