Microsoft Project 2010 Level 2

Course Aims:

This programme is for you if you already have an understanding of project management concepts, you have responsibility for creating and modifying project plans, and you need a tool to manage those project plans.

Course Pre-requisites:

Some experience in working with Project and creating a basic project plan is required. In particular, you should be able to:

• Define a basic project plan
• Link tasks
• Understand resource allocations

Course Objectives:

On completion of this course delegates will be able to:

• Work with a project plan once it has entered the project management phase
• Learn how to exchange project plan data with other applications
• Update project plans
• Create custom reports
• Reuse project plan information

Course Content:

Introduction and Objectives

Adding the project baseline

• Why save a baseline?
• Saving the baseline
• Revising the baseline
• Adding new tasks to an existing an baseline

Tracking a project plan

• What is tracking?
• Updating the project schedule
• Comparing the actual and planned progress of a project
• Additional project tracking topics

Project filters

• Guide to using filters
• Using the standard project filters
• Creating custom filters
• Updating the project schedule

Working with reports

• Types of reports
• Displaying and printing reports
• Creating a custom report
• Filtering project data on a report using Filters
• Additional advanced report topics
• Creating tables
• Existing tables explained
• Creating a new table and adding project fields
• Adding a calculation column to a table

Organiser

• Uses of the organiser
• Adding custom filters, reports and table to the

global template using the organiser

Working with additional project views

• Calendar
• Network diagram
• Task usage
• Resource usage

Multiple project plans

• Identify the uses of multiple projects
• Creating a resource pool
• Setting up the consolidated project
• Linking tasks across projects of a consolidated

project

Action planning

Review of Programme

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