Learn Microsoft Project - Critical Path Management (advanced)
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Description
If you already have a basic plan in Microsoft Project, this advanced course shows you how to turn it into a schedule that forecasts your project reliably and recalculates after a single edit.
What this course covers:
- Building complete, correct network logic for critical path management
- Minimizing date constraints so the schedule stays dynamic
- Keeping completed work in the past and remaining work in the future
- Handling multiple scenarios, including forward and backward scheduling
It suits schedulers who want less manual maintenance and more accurate milestone forecasts.
Table of Contents
Introduction on automating a schedule, so after only one edit the schedule will update itself:
* Making Links between Tasks
* Lag and Lead
* Guidelines for Linking Tasks
* Link Types
* Constraints and the proper use of Constraints
* Critical Path
* Slack (Total Slack and Free Slack)
* Check on Dangling Tasks (Tasks that have no links yet)
* Critical Path Management
* Dependencies with Other Projects
* Adding a Dependency by Typing the Link Path
* How to see the external link in MSP?
* The Link Between Projects Window
* Dealing with Updates
* Updating Tasks
* Evaluating and Optimizing the Schedule
* What Lessons to Learn from your Progress against Baseline
* Comparing to Baseline to Structurally Improve Business Processes
* Managing against Deadlines
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
Author
MS Project Elearning.com is the leading Microsoft Project e-learning provider offering a step by step approach for mastering MS Project.
They offer 5 online learning courses about Microsoft Project, which they call 'Maturity Levels'.
After these 5 courses you will be able to generate a professional schedule that outperforms 95% of the project schedules that are made throughout the world.
MS Project Elearning.com wants to enable change. "Our goal is to get businesses and people enthusiastic about a new way of managing and planning their projects. This means to collaborate in projects according to 'processes' that work and are supported by the best PPM-tooling that is currently available on the market: Microsoft Project".
"Together with you, we want to be in a constant flow of seeking opportunities for your project management organization and embedding improvements so your Project Management Organisation will be a true ROI enabling machine!"
