Project - Level 2 Course
Course Details:
Length: 1 day(s)
Price: $275/person (USD)
Group Price: Request Quote
Course Features:
Live Instructor Teaching
Certificate of Completion
Courseware: Print
Hands-On Learning?: Yes
Software Lab Included?: Yes
Delivery Methods:
Individuals and Groups
@ Your Location or Our Labs
Group Teams
@ Your Organization
This is an instructor-led course. It is taught by an instructor
live online or at organizations for groups.
For
team training, we can teach onsite at your office or private live online.
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Course Overview
Learn the advanced features of Microsoft Project and get more done quickly. Learn about: Fine Tuning: Resources, Assignments & Project Plans; Organize Plan Details; Tracking Progress; Reporting; Formatting & Printing; Customization of Project; Sharing Information with Other Programs; Consolidating Projects & Resources.
Register Early: Registration Deadline is 2 Weeks Prior to Class Start.
Course Notes
Versions That Can Attend: Office 365, 2019, 2016, & 2013 (Microsoft Windows PC)
Course Taught With: Office version 2016 (Microsoft Windows PC) Software and Courseware
Not Appropriate For: Macintosh versions of Office
Knowledge Prerequisites
Project - Level 1
Course Topics
Part 3 Advanced scheduling techniques
Chapter 9: Fine-tune Task Scheduling
See task relationships by using Task Path
Adjust task link relationships
Control task scheduling by using constraints
Interrupt work on a task
Adjust working time for individual tasks
Control task scheduling by using task types
Sidebar: Assignment units, Peak, and the assignment calculation
Sidebar: Task types and effort-driven scheduling
See task schedule details by using the Task Inspector
Skills review
Practice tasks
Chapter 10: Fine-tune Task Details
Enter deadline dates
Enter fixed costs
Create a recurring task
View the plan’s critical path
Schedule summary tasks manually
Skills review
Practice tasks
Chapter 11: Fine-tune Resource and Assignment Details
Change resource availability over multiple date ranges
Work with multiple resource pay rates
Change resource pay rates over different date ranges
Delay the start of assignments
Apply contours to assignments
Create and assign material resources
View resource capacity
Adjust assignments in the Team Planner view (Project Professional only)
Skills review
Practice tasks
Chapter 12: Fine-tune the Project Plan
Examine resource allocations over time
Sidebar: Project management focus: Evaluate resource allocation
Resolve resource overallocations manually
Level overallocated resources
Check the plan’s cost and finish date
Sidebar: Project management focus: Finish date and critical tasks
Inactivate tasks (Project Professional only)
Skills review
Practice tasks
Chapter 13: Organize Plan Details
Sort plan details
Group plan details
Filter plan details
Create new tables
Sidebar: Create custom fields quickly
Create new views
Skills review
Practice tasks
Chapter 14: Track Progress: Detailed Techniques
Update a baseline
Sidebar: Save interim plans
Track actual and remaining work for tasks and assignments
Sidebar: Enter actual costs manually
Track time phased actual work for tasks and assignments
Sidebar: Project management focus: Collect actuals from resources
Reschedule incomplete work
Skills review
Practice tasks
Chapter 15: View and Report Project Status
Examine a plan’s variance
Sidebar: Project management focus: Get the word out
Identify tasks that have slipped
Sidebar: Project management focus: Is variance ever a good thing?
Examine task costs
Examine resource costs
Skills review
Practice tasks
Chapter 19: Share Information with Other Programs
Copy Project data to and from other programs
Open files in other formats in Project
Save to other file formats from Project
Sidebar: Share files with previous versions of Project
Generate reports with Excel and Visio
Skills review
Practice tasks
Chapter 20: Consolidate Projects and Resources
Share a resource pool across multiple plans
Sidebar: Create a dedicated resource pool
Consolidate plans
Sidebar: Keep consolidated plans simple
Create dependencies between plans
Skills review
Practice tasks