Learn MS Project - Become A PRO! 5-course Bundle
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Description
This five-course bundle takes you through Microsoft Project step by step, using quizzes and hands-on exercises so you can apply it to your own projects.
What this course covers:
- Milestones and project health
- Task management
- Critical path management
- Resource management
- Cost management
It is designed for project managers who want to get started quickly and build a practical, working command of MS Project.
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
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!"
Learn MS Project - Become A PRO! 5-course Bundle
Turn your project scope into a clear, well-structured Microsoft Project schedule you can actually manage and report on.
What this course covers:
- Building a work breakdown structure with tasks and summary tasks
- Setting a baseline so you can measure the quality of your estimates
- Producing estimates that balance being SMART with realistic risk contingency
- Using views to spot patterns, such as tasks that consistently run long
- Working confidently in the Microsoft Project interface
This is level 2 in a five-part maturity series for building reliable schedules.
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.
Already have a solid Microsoft Project schedule and need to make it realistic by adding resources? This expert-level course shows how the availability of people, equipment, and budget shapes your plan.
What this course covers:
- What counts as a resource and when to assign one to a task
- How resource availability and constraints affect timing and scope
- Using resource leveling to balance workload across tasks
- Choosing bottom-up or top-down resourcing for your audience
Ideal for project planners ready to move from a working schedule to a resource-driven forecast.
Your MS Project skills are already on a high level but you did not work with costs yet? After taking this E-Course you will be able to value the projects cost and earned value applying (cost) resources, baseline and rates.
Why THIS course?
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.
The trick here is also to keep the right balance between the amount of input and getting valuable output. Remember MS Project is not meant to be accounting software, MS Project is a modeling tool which should deliberately simplify the reality. Accountants cannot permit to simplify. Neither will it serve as an invoicing system.
What will we do in this e-course?
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.
Want to use Microsoft Project without any prior experience? This beginner course shows you how to report your project's status and major milestones quickly and clearly.
What this course covers:
By the end, you can produce a clear status report for your manager, client or stakeholders. It is the first level in a five-part MS Project series.