Professional Development

April 11, 2013
October 25, 2013

Baldwin Wallace, Berea

April 25, 2013

Baldwin Wallace, Beachwood

9 am - 4 pm ; 6 PDU; $399;

Instructor: Pete Evangelista

This one-day, hands-on course provides an overview of MS-Project and its functionality. Conducted in a PC Lab environment, students will get a opportunity to work with the tool while receiving support from an experienced and knowledgeable instructor/coach.  

Students will have a opportunity to develop a project schedule from scratch, get comfortable with entering information into MS-Project, then using the base schedule to understand a manage resource allocations, task assignments, and the project labor budget. MS-Project also offers a depth of reporting functionality and students will learn how to create and modify reports for their project communication needs.

Target Audience: Any project manager, program manager, or project administrator that is unfamiliar with MS-Project, needs a "refresher", or is new to MS-Project 2010.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the capabilities of MS-Project
• Enter task information
• Develop a project schedule by setting task dependencies, work efforts, resource allocations, and task assignments
• Identify and display the schedule's critical path
• Use reports to communicate the budget, resource usage and utilization

Course Outline:

1. Introductions and Definitions
2. Overview of MS-Project Functionality and Layout
3. Setting the Project Profile
4. Entering Tasks
   • The Work Break Down Structure
   • Exercise #1
5. Entering Dependencies
   • Types of dependencies
   • Options
   • Exercise #2
6. Entering Work Effort
   • Exercise #3
7. Using Resources
   • Setting up resources
   • Applying resources to tasks
   • Resource leveling
   • Exercise #4
8. View and Display Optimization
9. Managing and Manipulating the Plan
   • Tools available for analysis
   • Exercise #5
10. Reports
11. Tips and Tricks
12. Wrap-up