Mastering Microsoft Project 2019

Total Course Duration: 36 Hours
Per Class Duration: 3 Hours

Course Overview

Overview
This Six-day or 36 hours, instructor-led course is intended for individuals who are interested in expanding their knowledge base and technical skills about Microsoft Project. The course begins with the basic concepts and leads students through all the functions they’ll need to plan and manage a small to medium-size project, including how to level resources and capture both cost and schedule progress.

Audience profile

This course is intended for both novice and experienced project managers, managers, schedulers, and other project stake holders who need to incorporate the discipline of project management with Microsoft Project 2019.

Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course. However, it is helpful to have taken an introductory project management course, such as Versa tile’s Principles of Project Management.

At course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:
• Understand the discipline of project management as it applies to using Microsoft Project 2019.
• Create a Work Breakdown Structure.
• Identify Task Types & Relationships.
• Define Resources within Project.
• Make Work Package Estimates.
• Create an Initial Schedule.
• Create a Resource Leveled Schedule.
• Create Projects from templates, Excel files.
• Create Global templates.
• Create formulas and graphical indicators.
• The steps to record a macro.
• Format Output and Print Reports.
• Integrate Multiple Projects.
• Set up a Project with a Calendar, Start date, and scheduling method.
• Understand Manually Schedule vs. Auto Schedule.
• Manage multiple projects.
• Be able to create a master project list with shared resources.

Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft Project

Describe how Project relates to the discipline of Project management.
Learn what the new features are in Project 2019.
Navigate to the primary views available using the Ribbon.
Choose Views that display task, resource, or assignment information.
Select table within views to change the information that is available to see and edit.
Relate the features of Project to the 5 steps for building a plan in Project.

Module 2: A Quick and Easy Overview of Managing with Project

Create a new project and prepare it for data entry.
Enter project tasks.
Sequence the tasks.
Define resources.
Estimate Task duration and assign resources.
Baseline the project.
Track project progress.

Module 3: Setting Up a Project

Use multiple methods to create a new project from an Excel file and a SharePoint Tasks list.
Establish one or more calendars to constrain resource availability.
Configure Project to calculate the schedule from the Start Date forward, or from the Finish Date b

Module 4: Manually Schedule vs. Auto Schedule

Students practice switching tasks between Manually Schedule and Auto Schedule modes. By switching

Module 5: Creating a Work Breakdown Structure

Build and use summary and subordinate tasks.
Understand and use milestones.
Develop WBS Outlines.
Assign completion criteria.
Evaluate the WBS.
Understand and use WBS templates.

Module 6: Identifying Task Relationships

Understand the different types of task relationships.
Understand and use various methods to create relationships.
Determine and display task sequence.
Understand and use lag, lead, and delay.
Understand the new feature of Task Paths.

Module 7: Defining Resources within Project

Define resource types.
Define individual resources that will be used on the project.
Record the cost (s) of using each type of resource.
Record the limit of availability for each type of resource by establishing a resource calendar and default calendar.

Module 8: Making Work Package Estimates

Enter estimates for duration and costs for each task.
Distinguish between task types and describe when each is appropriate.
Describe the relationship between work, units, and duration.
Describe the way Effort Driven scheduling is affected by work, units, and duration.
Assign tasks to resources using the Team Planner view.

Module 9: Creating an Initial Schedule

Calculate float and identify a project’s critical path.
Understand and identify task constraints.
Create milestones.
Use the Task Inspector to troubleshoot the initial schedule.

Module 10: Create a Resource Leveled Schedule

Adjust a project schedule to account for limited people and other resources.
View the overall cost and schedule of a project.
Identify resources that have been over allocated for a project schedule.
Use multiple ways to adjust tasks and assignments to remove over allocation for any resource.