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Practical Scheduling
…2 Days Downright Practical And Skill Enhancing Training Using Microsoft Project 2007
(Standalone Version)
Learn to make your scheduling life simple
and extremely effective. Learn to use MPP to negotiate with
clients, peers, seniors and team members. This tool is meant for
everything under the Project Management Purview. Learn those
features that you did not know it had and are extremely helpful.
Learn the tool and the scheduling discipline as an applied
science and not theory.
Prerequisite
A familiarity with basic project management and team management
concepts and terminology is recommended as well as windows
navigation skills are required. Prior use of MS Project is
recommended but not absolutely necessary.
Course Level
Intermediate
Duration
2 Days
Who should attend?
This course is intended for a team member, Sr. Developers, Team
Leads, Project Leads, Test Leads, QA Representatives, Project
Managers, Architects, Program Managers, Pre-sales, Account Managers
and Delivery Heads, Scheduler, or any user of MS Project standard or
Professional standalone desktop features (this course excludes
Project Server features). Participants should be involved in or
responsible for scheduling, estimating, coordinating, controlling,
budgeting, and staffing of projects and supporting other users of MS
Office Project.
Performance Focus
- To get your hands dirty and enrich your command
and grasp of this tool and scheduling discipline.
- To empower you for higher roles and responsibilities in
Project Management.
- To imbibe in you the power and problem solving features
of this tool and how to use them.
- To empower you with tricks and tips of this tool and
this discipline that keeps you miles ahead of others.
- To empower you to handle multiple projects and
complicated projects.
- To empower you to make the project follow your schedule
and not vice versa.
- To enable you to do team collaborations with MPP without
using the Enterprise versions.
What You Will Learn
- Create a well formed project schedule
- Assign resources to tasks
- Resource leveling skills and concepts
- Understand task types and the schedule formula
- Analyze resource utilization
- Track progress
- Customize and format the MS Project Views and look and
feel
- Baseline, update and track projects
- Generate reports and take status reports
Content
Day wise break-up of the course:
Day 1
A brief session to discuss and mark problems faced today
Scheduling related concepts of PM
Why do we schedule
Common mistakes in scheduling
The Journey from estimations to a schedule
General sequence in creating a schedule – and logic
The most common template
Getting started: -
a. The WBS and the grouping
b. Setting predecessors
c. Setting up resources
d. Assigning resources
e. The calendars
f. Formatting and printing plan
g. Tracking the progress
Is scheduling a onetime activity
Maintainability issues and practical solutions
The relationships – An advanced study
Deadlines and constraints
Milestones
Different Views and what to do with them
Team based exercises |
Day 2 (Advanced Topics)
Fine tuning task details
Resources tuning and leveling
Organizing and formatting project plan
Project status reporting – getting serious about it
The EVM Reporting
Getting projects back on track
Applying advanced formatting
Customizing projects
Consolidating projects and resources
Schedule Optimization
Schedule Updations – Resource, tasks and costs
Project Evaluation
Slack / Float and Buffers – Practical Winners
Different SDLCs and Different MPP templates
The Magic of Macros
BONUS TOPIC - short introduction to project server
Recap & Closing |
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