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You need to gather information about the various tasks involved, resources required to accomplish the tasks, and the overall cost in order to plan a project. Microsoft Office Project Professional 2010 acts as a tool that assists you in managing your projects. In this course, you will create and modify a project plan. Once the plan is created, you will set a baseline, track project actuals and report against the plan using Microsoft Project.

Target Audience

This course is designed for a person who has an understanding of project management concepts, who is responsible for creating and modifying project plans, and who needs a tool to manage these project plans.

We review delegate feedback for every course we run at QA. The feedback for the existing course materials consistently showed that delegates felt the course was not written in a logical fashion and in addition, many delegates felt that the 1 day format did not allow adequate time to cover the technical subject matter in sufficient depth to ensure a full understanding.

We listen and respond to delegate feedback and so have decided to replace the existing Microsoft Project 2010 Level 1 course with this new 2 day QA Authored Microsoft Project 2010 Introduction course.

The courseware for the new Microsoft Project 2010 Introduction course has been written by QA's Microsoft Project experts. It covers the key topics required by users of this software with lots of in-depth explanations, step by step instructions, key questions and group and individual activities. All changes have been made in line with delegate feedback received.

An understanding of project management concepts.
Knowledge of a Windows operating system, either Windows XP, Vista or 7.

Dual monitor setup is required for when attending this course via the QA Attend from Anywhere delivery method.

At the end of this course you will be able to:

Identify the components of the Microsoft Project environment
Use views to work with a project plan
Create a new project plan
Create the project schedule
Manage resources in a project plan
Finalise a project plan
Track progress
View and report project plan information

Lesson 1: Getting Started with Microsoft Project

The Role of Microsoft Project
Explore the Microsoft Project 2010 Environment
Display an Existing Project Plan in Different Views

Lesson 2: Creating a Project Plan

Create a New Project Plan
Set Project Working Time
Project Information
Create Summary Stages
Edit the Task List
Define the Activity List
Create and Apply Task Calendars
Create the Work Breakdown Structure

Lesson 3: Creating the Project Schedule

Understand Task Durations
Define Milestones
Work with Manual Scheduling and Finish Start Links
Automatic Scheduling and Finish Start links
Task Relationships - Types, Lag and Lead
Add Tasks to the Timeline
Identify the Critical Path
Work with Constraints and Deadlines
Add Recurring Activities
Add Notes to a Task
Reference Other Files in Tasks

Lesson 4: Managing Resources in a Project Plan

Understand Resources Types
Work with Resource Calendars and Availability
Add Resource Costs
Assign Resources to Tasks
Effort Driven Scheduling
Resolve Resource Overallocation
Split Activities

Lesson 5: Introduction to Project Tracking

Set a Project Baseline
Enter Actuals Against Tasks
View Progress Against a Baseline

Lesson 6: Viewing and Reporting Project Detail

Filter and Group Project Data
Print Microsoft Project Views
Use Standard Reports in Microsoft Project
Print Standard Reports to XPS

Upcoming Trainings

Join our public courses in our United Kingdom facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

Classroom / Virtual Classroom

15 July 2024