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Microsoft Office Project 2003 Step by Step
 3 day Instructor-Led Course (24 hours)
 

Course Overview

• Learn how to develop and present your project plan
• Master the tools for managing schedules and resources effectively
• Identify critical paths and manage multiple dependencies
• Track progress and costs—and make real-time adjustments
• Work better together—coordinating projects online with Microsoft Office Project Server 2003
• Plus, sharpen your project management skills with the quick course in the Appendix!

Your Microsoft Office System Reference Pack on CD includes:
• Twenty-five templates straight from the Microsoft Office team
• Microsoft Office System Quick Reference eBook
• Insider’s Guide to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 eBook—describes new notetaking features in Office
• Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition, eBook—10,000+ entries!
• Introducing the Tablet PC eBook
• Complete STEP BY STEP eBook
• Skill-building practice files
 

Target Audience

Beg/Int

 

Book Details

560 pages, 1 companion CD

 

Previous Software Versions: MS Office XP, 2002, 2000

 

Course Outline:
PART 1 MANAGING A SIMPLE PROJECT

1 Getting Started with Microsoft Project
Managing Your Projects with Microsoft Project
Starting Microsoft Project
Exploring Views
Exploring Reports
Creating a New Project Plan
Setting Nonworking Days
Entering Project Properties

2 Creating a Task List
Entering Tasks
Project Management Focus: Defining the Right Tasks for the Right Deliverable
Estimating Durations
Project Management Focus: How Do You Come Up with Accurate Task Durations?
Entering a Milestone
Organizing Tasks into Phases
Project Management Focus: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Planning
Linking Tasks
Documenting Tasks
Checking the Plan’s Duration

3 Setting Up Resources
Setting Up People Resources
Setting Up Equipment Resources
Setting Up Material Resources
Entering Resource Pay Rates
Project Management Focus: Getting Resource Cost Information
Adjusting Working Time for Individual Resources
Documenting Resources  		 4 Assigning Resources to Tasks
Assigning Resources to Tasks
Assigning Additional Resources to a Task
Project Management Focus:
When Should Effort-Driven Scheduling Apply?
Assigning Material Resources to Tasks

 

5 Formatting and Printing Your Plan
Creating a Custom Gantt Chart View
Drawing on a Gantt Chart
Formatting Text in a View
Formatting and Printing Reports

 

6 Tracking Progress on Tasks
Saving a Project Baseline
Tracking a Project as Scheduled
Entering a Task’s Completion Percentage
Entering Actual Values for Tasks
Project Management Focus: Is the Project on Track?

 

PART 2 MANAGING A COMPLEX PROJECT

7 Fine-Tuning Task Details
Adjusting Task Relationships
Setting Task Constraints
Viewing the Project’s Critical Path
Interrupting Work on a Task
Adjusting Working Time for Individual Tasks
Changing Task Types
Entering Deadline Dates
Entering Fixed Costs
Setting Up a Recurring Task

 
8 Fine-Tuning Resource and Assignment Details
Entering Multiple Pay Rates for a Resource
Setting Up Pay Rates to Apply at Different Times
Setting Up Resource Availability to Apply at Different Times
Delaying the Start of Assignments
Applying Contours to Assignments
Applying Different Cost Rates to Assignments
Entering Material Resource Consumption Rates

9 Fine-Tuning the Project Plan
Examining Resource Allocations Over Time
Project Management Focus: Evaluating Resource Allocation
Manually Resolving Resource Overallocations
Leveling Overallocated Resources
Examining Project Costs
Checking the Project’s Finish Date

10 Organizing and Formatting Project Details
Sorting Project Details
Grouping Project Details
Filtering Project Details
Customizing Tables
Customizing Views

11 Printing Project Information
Printing Your Project Plan
Project Management Focus: Communicating with Stakeholders
Printing Views
Printing Reports

12 Publishing Project Information Online
Copying Project Information as a GIF Image
Saving Project Information as a Web Page
Changing the Look of a Project Web Page
 

13 Sharing Project Information with Other Programs
Copying and Pasting with Microsoft Project
Opening Other File Formats in Microsoft Project
Saving to Other File Formats from Microsoft Project

14 Tracking Progress on Tasks and Assignments
Updating a Baseline
Tracking Actual and Remaining Values for Tasks and Assignments
Tracking Timephased Actual Work for Tasks and Assignments
Project Management Focus: Collecting Actuals from Resources
Rescheduling Incomplete Work
 

15 Viewing and Reporting Project Status
Identifying Tasks That Have Slipped
Project Management Focus: Getting the Word Out
Examining Task Costs
Examining Resource Costs
Project Management Focus: What About All Those Other Costs?
Reporting Project Cost Variance with a Stoplight View

16 Getting Your Project Back on Track
Troubleshooting Time and Schedule Problems
Troubleshooting Cost and Resource Problems
Troubleshooting Scope-of-Work Problems  

PART 3 SPECIAL SUBJECTS

17 Applying Advanced Formatting
Formatting Bar Styles in a Gantt Chart View
Displaying Task IDs and WBS Codes
Formatting the Network Diagram View
Formatting the Calendar View

18 Customizing Microsoft Project
Working with the Organizer
Recording Macros
Editing Macros
Customizing a Toolbar

19 Measuring Performance with Earned Value Analysis
Viewing Earned Value Schedule Indicators
Viewing Earned Value Cost Indicators

20 Consolidating Projects and Resources
Creating a Resource Pool
Viewing Assignment Details in a Resource Pool
Updating Assignments in a Sharer Plan
Updating a Resource’s Information in a Resource Pool
Updating All Projects’ Working Times in a Resource Pool
Linking New Project Plans to a Resource Pool
Opening a Sharer Plan and Updating a Resource Pool
Working With Consolidated Projects
Creating Dependencies Between Projects

PART 4 APPENDICES
 

A: Introducing Microsoft Project Server
Setting Up Collaboration Features in Microsoft Project
Using Microsoft Project Server at the Workgroup Level
Working in the Planning Phase
Working in the Tracking Phase
Using Microsoft Project Server at the Enterprise Level
Using E-Mail Based Collaboration

B: A Short Course in Project Management
Understanding What Defines a Project
The Project Triangle: Seeing Projects in Terms of Time, Cost, and Scope
Time, Cost, and Scope: Managing Project Constraints
Managing Your Projects with Microsoft Project

C: What’s Next?
Joining a Microsoft Project Learning Community
Joining a Project Management Learning Community
Final Words