Building Flexible Project Plans with Microsoft Project 2010

•How to set Microsoft Project 2010 user specific options?

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Understand basic project management definitions such as project, program, portfolio etc.

•Understand the Microsoft enterprise solution for managing projects

•Work with the various types of Project 2010 files

•Navigate well the new Project 2010 interface

•Use the Help function

•Configure Project 2010

This module explains what are the initial steps when starting a project.

•Create and save projects

•Define project settings

•Manage project calendars

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Create and save projects

•Define project settings

•Manage project calendars

This module explains how to create tasks in Microsoft Project 2010.

•Manual and Auto-scheduled tasks

•How to create tasks

•Create project

•Insert tasks

•Organize tasks in phases

•Sequence tasks

•Change connection types

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Differentiate when to use manual and auto-scheduled tasks

•Insert tasks and milestones

•Import tasks from files

•Define tasks properties

•Work with task inspector

This module explains how to add deadlines, constraints or calendars to tasks.

•Deadlines

•Constraints

•Calendars

•Add deadlines and constraints

•Add calendars

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Differentiate when to use a deadline, constraint, or calendar

•Insert deadlines, constraints, and calendars to tasks

This module explains how to create project resources.

•Types of resources

•Resource description

•Assignment of resources to tasks

•Create resources

•Assign resources to tasks

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Differentiate among the project recourse types

•Define work, material, and cost resources with their properties

•Assign resources to tasks

This module explains how to manage various types of project changes.

•Scheduling formula

•Effort-driven scheduling

•Task types

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Understand the scheduling formula

•Understand effort-driven scheduling and task types

This module explains how to save a baseline of a project and how to track project progress.

•Project baseline

•Tracking project progress

•Set project baseline

•Track project work

•Review project critical path

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Set project baseline

•Understand critical path

•Track project progress using various methods

This module explains how to analyze the project information that you have.

•Sort, group and filter data

•Format Gantt Chart

•Print project

•Use Visual Reports

•Sort, filter and group project data

•Create and review project schedule and costs reports

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Sort, group and filter data

•Format Gantt Chart

•Print project

•Use Visual Reports

This module explains how to manage connected projects.

•Create a master project

•Link tasks in different projects

•Use shared resource pool

•Create a master project

•Use a resource pool

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•Create a master project

•Link tasks in different projects

•Use shared resource pool