Project Planning and Scheduling using Microsoft Project

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..