Microsoft Project Course Titles

Project Intermediate

Duration:  1 day | Book this course
Cost: $350.00 + GST

Course Description

This course will help students learn to sort and find tasks or resources in a project; use views, tables, details, groups, and filters to view project information; create and edit views, tables, and filters; shorten the critical path of your project and manage your project's resources; manage and view cost information; and track the completion of tasks in your project.

Prerequisites

 

Prerequisites
Participants should have completed the Project Introduction level or have equivalent experience.

Who Should Take This Course
Professionals using Project to manage tasks and projects

Course Objectives

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will have learned how to:

  1. Filter and group items
  2. Modify project views
  3. Use the Task Inspector
  4. Split and delaying items
  5. Make tasks inactive
  6. Update progress and costs
  7. View project status
  8. Run reports

Course Outline

 

Course Outline

Working with Views, Tables, Groups, and Filters

  • Choosing a different view
  • Choosing a different table in a view
  • Inserting and rearranging columns in a table
  • Sorting tasks, assignments, and resources
  • Grouping tasks, assignments, and resources
  • Filtering tasks, assignments, and resources
  • Modifying task bar styles, text, and layout
  • Modifying text styles and text formatting
  • Using the Timeline view to summarise a project

Modifying Schedules

  • Using the Task Inspector to handle scheduling issues
  • Splitting and delaying tasks and assignments
  • Adjusting a work contour
  • Levelling resources
  • Inactivating tasks

Tracking Projects and Managing Costs

  • Understanding baseline, scheduled, and actual values
  • Saving and clearing a baseline
  • Editing tasks and adding them to a baseline
  • Updating the schedule
  • Using overtime
  • Updating Costs
  • Making global progress updates to a project

Viewing and Sharing Project Information

  • Viewing project status
  • Looking for schedule and cost problems
  • Running a text-based report
  • Generating a visual report
  • Working with the Global Template
  • Importing and exporting information

Consolidating Project Plans

  • Understanding Master Projects
  • Inserting Subprojects
  • Unlinking a Subproject from the Master Project
  • Removing a Subproject
  • Creating Task Dependencies Between Projects