Focus Project Management - Book Course Microsoft Project 2003 - Level 2- Leeds - The Calls

This two day course will enable users to manipulate the advanced features of Project 2003 in order to plan, track and customise a project. Users will also be able to manipulate project data between different applications.

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Next available Non-Residential courses:-

Venue	Date	Price	Availability
Leeds - The Calls, Leeds	25th Jan 06	£545 +VAT	Spaces
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Leeds - The Calls, Leeds	10th Apr 06	£545 +VAT	Spaces
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Who will the course benefit?

Users wishing to build their existing skills of Project 2003 to power user level. This course would also suit Project Directors or Programme Managers wishing to learn how to customise the Microsoft Project interface to produce views, fields and reports to their specific requirements.

Course Objectives

On completion of the course, delegates will be able to effectively utilise advanced features within Project 2003. These include scheduling by fixed work, fixed duration and fixed units, multiple project management, cost analysis and customisation. Delegates will be able to integrate Project 2003 with other Office applications.

Skills Gained

This course will enable delegates to:

Resolve over-allocations using resource levelling or resource re-allocation techniques.
Manage multiple projects.
Integrate MS Project with other Office applications.
Import and Export project data between different applications.
Customise the MS Project interface, to include fields, tables, views, filters and reports.
Record and run simple macros.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have attended a Project Level 1 or FastPath course or have equivalent knowledge.

Course Content

Revision of Basics

Creating and editing a project.
Links, deadlines and constraints.
Structuring a project using Outlining.

Resources

Project, Base and Resource calendars.
Fixed units, fixed work and fixed duration scheduling.
Effort Driven versus Non Effort Driven scheduling
Rescheduling resource effort.
Splitting resource effort.

Costs

Analysis of costs using tables.
Understanding cost fields.
Manually entering costs.
Integration of costs using Excel

Managing Projects

Resolving overallocations.
Task Calendars.
Baselining a project and setting multiple baselines.
Cross project linking.
Using templates.
Updating actuals in detail.

Customisation

Understanding the use of fields.
Creating and editing tables and filters.
Creating and editing reports and views.
Creating customised forms.
Customising toolbars and menus.

Macros

Overview of existing macros.
Creating and editing simples macros.
Assigning macros to toolbars.
Using the organizer.

Office Integration

Creating and modifying Maps
Importing files into MS Project.
Exporting files from MS Project.
Linking MS Project and the Web.

No specific examinations have been identified for this course