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Description
- 1) Milestones & Project Health
- 2) Task Management
- 3) Critical Path Management
- 4) Resource Management
- 5) Cost Management
Table of Contents
Milestones & Project Health – Maturity Level 1:
Project Management Fundamentals: Scope, Risk, Deliverables, Benefits, Issues etc
Scheduling Terminology and why you Need to Have a Schedule
The Right Order to Set Up a Schedule
Explanatory Tour Through Microsoft Project
Create your Own MS Project File vs Using Our Template
How to Report on Project Status and Major Milestones
How and When to Set Milestones
Milestones as Connecting Points to Other Schedules
How and When to Set a Deadline
How and Why to set the Status Date
Report your Project with a Customized Highlight Report
Task Management – Maturity Level 2:
What is a PBS (Product Breakdown Structure) and a WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)
Importance of Ordering Activities
PBS/WBS Best Practices
Tasks, Summary Tasks and Outdent levels
Durations and their Estimates
Estimating Principles
Adding Tasks to the Baseline
Schedule Quality Assessment
Update Tasks
Record Task Progress
Reschedule Incomplete Work in one Go
Evaluate the Project Schedule
Reporting on Task Progress
Critical Path Management – Maturity Level 3:
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
Resource Management – Maturity Level 4:
Preparations Before Resource Loading
How MSP Calculates: The Iron Formula
Fixed Work, Fixed Duration of Fixed Units – what to use when?
Effort Driven Scheduling – yes or no?
Resource Types
Enter Resources Using the Resource Sheet
Resource Calendar
Generic vs. Specific Resources
Assigning a Resource
Dedicated vs non-dedicated assignments
% Assignment on a task, effectiveness, and absence
Explaining the different units % fields in MS Project
Assignment Units vs. Peak (Units)
Replacing a Resource
Views for Resource Management
Resource Graph
Team Planner
Resource Usage and Task Usage
Task Form and Resource Form
Resource Leveling
Method 1: Level Resources Manually
Method 2: Let MSP Level For You
Level One Task at a Time
Level Selection
Level Resource
Level All
The Resource Allocation View
The Leveling Algorithm Explained
After Solving Resource over Allocation
Cost Management – Maturity Level 5:
Budget vs. Actual Costs
How to Set Up a Project Budget
How to Enter Costs for Resources
How to Compare Cost to the Baseline
Earned Value Management
How to Set Up Your Schedule for Earned Value Management?
Using the Earned Value Management Report
How to Use the S-Curves
How to Interpret the MS Project default Reports
How to Present Your Project Status on Costs?
Using the Highlight Report with cost Information
System Requirements
MS Project 2013 or 2016 installed, download here from: http://www.mpug.com/resources/microsoft-project-free-trials/
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!"
Learn MS Project - Become A PRO! 5-course Bundle
The purpose for this Level 3 is to automate your schedule in such a way that it is:
* Dynamic: It must update it self as much as possible. He estimates that for a 100 task / 3 month schedule about 50 hours of schedule maintenance is saved when you have a dynamic schedule. Only one change should be enough to calculate the rest of the model (just like you expect from Excel)
Robust: It must be able to deal with multiple scenario’s, like scheduling forwards and scheduling backwards
* Model: It must be a simplification of reality with only capturing those things that are important in this project – it should not resort into a checklist for all small activities
* Forecast: Checklists, task manuals, meeting schedules, database of historical estimates are reasons to have schedules, but the primary reason should be to forecast your major milestones.
At this point you have a perfect model of your project that will forecast your main deliveries. By now, we can promise you that your schedule already outperforms 80% of the schedules being made throughout the world.
- Top-down – use resources for all your tasks as you use your schedule to communicate their workload and what is expected of them
- The goal of planning with resources it to be able to determine what is needed of the variable parameter(s) to achieve the project goal:
- Timing and resources with constrained scope
- Scope and resources with constrained timing
- We will explain you how you can use the resource leveling features in MS project to explain for which of these three parameters you need help or a decision from your manager or steering committee.
Many, many times we see that where project timing and resourcing is kept in MS Project and project finances are kept in Excel. Using the financial governance capacilities in MS project is often an unexploited area. This is waste, because only adding rates to resources will already bring you half way. MS Project can calculate anything for you directly from your schedule.
Enter a project budget for main cost types, compare planned cost against actual cost. Predict eventual cost at project complete based actual progress, provide burn-down charts and earned value metrics to qualify the projects’ performance. All the things required to be able to perform quality cost control.
In this online training you will learn step by step how to provide a weekly status update to your manager or client on the overall project status and the expected delivery dates for your main deliverables.