Course Description

Course Outline:  This course is designed for those people who require an introduction to the use of Microsoft Project Professional 2007 as an effective software tool for Project Planning, Task Scheduling, Tracking and Evaluation. 

Who Should Attend: Users with some experience of a previous version of Microsoft Project and with an appreciation of planning principles.

Course Criteria: No prior knowledge of Microsoft Project Professional 2007 is assumed. Windows experience and exposure to a previous version of Microsoft Project (Project 2000 through to Project  2007 Standard) however is assumed. (If this is not the case we can tailor the course accordingly).

Objectives: Upon completion of the course delegates will have explored most of the features and facilities within Microsoft Project Professional and will have applied what they have learnt by practicing with "real" data.

Course Content:

Concepts of Enterprise Project Management (EPM)

User Roles, Structure & Workflow

Introduction to Microsoft Project 2007

Project Guide, Navigation, Menus, Toolbars, AutoFilters, Graphical Indicators, Dialogs, Dropdown lists, Using Help, Wizards, Smart Tags, Check In/Check Out.

File Commands

New, Open, Save, Save As, Save As Sharing, Close, File Formats, 

Databases (Working, Published, Reporting, Archive), Read-Only Viewing,

Importing Projects & Resources,

Multi-level Undo,  Active Cache.

Project & Task Entry

New projects, Entering Project Information,

Task durations, Start and Finish dates

Outlining, Linking Tasks, Dependencies,

Save & Publish Projects

Navigating your Project Data

Views, Tables, Filters, Forms, Hyperlinks

Combination Views, Linking Tasks to documents, Task Drivers

Formatting Commands

Gantt Chart Wizard, Fonts, Text Styles, Bars, Bar Text, Three tiered Timescale & Gridlines, Custom Formatting, Indicators, Grouping, New Bar Styles, Background Cell Formatting, Re-Calc Change Highlighting.

Setting up Calendars

Project, Task and Resource Calendars, Calendar Wizard, Resource Working Time, Calendar Exceptions.

Project Web Access

Home Page, Project Center, Resource Center, Proposals, Resource Plans,

My Tasks, Timesheets & Status Reports

E-mail notifications, Excel & Outlook Integration, Document Sharing

Issues & Risk Management, Project Workspaces, PWA Views,

Creating New Projects, Tasks in PWA

Resource Allocation

Enterprise Resource Pool

Assigning Resources, Resource Information, Setting Resource Availability,

Resource Usage View (new rollup features), Resource Rates
Reviewing Resource Allocation
Resolving Conflicts
Resource Availability Graph
Proposed vs Committed booking
Resource Substitution Wizard

Publishing Assignments