One Day Workshop on Microsoft Project

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One Day Workshop on Microsoft Project

One Day Workshop on Microsoft Project

Participants will utilize the Microsoft Project Software as the main tool to manage, track and monitor projects.

This will be a fully-fledged practical workshop that will use real world projects to stimulate the planning, tracking and monitoring aspects.

In Completion a Participation Certificate will be Awarded by Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology

Expected Learning outcomes:

Establish company standards for using MS Project
Build a Gantt chart with phases, milestones, tasks, and deliverables
Fine tune the schedule to help you manage critical deadlines
Assign resources to tasks and manage overloads
Consolidate multiple projects and examine resource usage across them
Create a baseline and track progress on tasks and the project over all
Generate and print project reports

Course Outline

Introduction
1. What is a Project/ Project Management?
2. Relationships Among Portfolios, Programs, and Projects
3. Operations and Project Management
4. Project Management Body of Knowledge

The MS Project Environment
1. Short cuts for navigation
2. Menus, tool bars, the project guide
3. Understanding the table and Gantt chart
4. Opening, closing and saving project files

Before Starting a New Project
1. Enter project information
2. Build project calendars
3. Set project options

Developing the Task List and WBS
1. Work breakdown structure terms
2. Enter summary, activity, and milestone tasks
3. Collapse, expand, and edit the task list
4. Checking the WBS structure

Building the Project Schedule
1. Four types of task dependencies
2. Use lead and lag
3. Display the critical path and negative slack
4. Apply scheduling constraints
5. Resolve scheduling conflicts

Resource Management
1. Four factors affecting resource management
2. Create a resource pool using work and material resources
3. Assigning people to tasks
4. Splitting tasks, delayed starts, and work contours
5. Three methods for shortening task duration
6. Resource cost management

Consolidating and Managing Multiple Projects
1. Build a shared resource pool
2. Create a consolidated project file
3. Examine resources in multiple projects
4. Level resources across multiple projects

Baselines and Tracking Progress
1. Set a baseline
2. Tracking Gantt view
3. Update progress on tasks
4. Update progress on the entire project

Printing Project Reports
1. Create and use built in reports
2. Printing the project plan

Target Group

Project team members
Project and program managers
Operations managers
Executives with business planning responsibilities
CEO’s who run projects / programs

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of project management concepts or currently practice project management or project coordination.

Location

The One Day Workshop on Microsoft Project will be conducted in the SLIIT Metropolitan Campus (16^th Floor, BoC Merchant Tower, Kollupitiya, Colombo 03).

Important Dates

Commencement Date : - Commencing Soon

Duration & Schedule

8 Hours (Saturday – 9 a.m to 5 p.m)

Course Fee & Payment Details

Fee Per Participant: Rs.8,000/- (Lunch & Refreshments will be Provided)

Program fee can be paid at any branch of Bank of Ceylon in favor of the SLIIT current A/C 0072821605 and the receipt should be handed over to SLIIT Metro campus before the commencement of the Program.

[Program Fee can also be paid by a Credit Cards/Debit card VISA/MASTER at the SLIIT Metro Campus]