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Microsoft Project 2016 Basic (Level I)
Microsoft Project helps you easily plan projects and collaborate with others. Stay organized and keep your projects on track with the only project management system designed to work seamlessly with other Microsoft applications and cloud services. Always know how your tasks come together and identify which tasks are the most critical to your project’s success.
Course Objectives Students will learn how to create and modify task lists, establish a project schedule, create calendars, assign resources to tasks, track costs, and work with different views and tables. Students will also apply filters and groups, and sort task and resource data. Finally, they will learn how to resolve resource conflicts, create baseline plans, monitor and update projects, analyze project statistics, handle delays and conflicts, create reports, share resources, consolidate projects, and customize Project.
Course Content: Part I
Unit 1: Getting started
Topic A: Project management concepts
Topic B: The Project window
Topic C: Project files
Unit 2: Tasks
Topic A: Creating a task list
Topic B: Modifying a task list
Topic C: The Work Breakdown Structure
Unit 3: Task scheduling
Topic A: Task links
Topic B: Task relationships
Topic C: Task options
Unit 4: Resource management
Topic A: The base calendar
Topic B: Resources and calendars
Topic C: Sharing Resources
Unit 5: Filters, groups, and sorting
Topic A: Filters
Topic B: Groups
Topic C: Sorting tasks and resources
Unit 6: Finalizing the task plan
Topic A: Finalizing schedules
Topic B: Handling resource conflicts
Course Content Part II
Microsoft Project 2016 Advanced (Level II)
In Microsoft® Project 2016: Level 1, you learned the basic features of Microsoft® Project 2016 during the planning phase of a project. Microsoft® Project 2016: Level 2 covers the advanced knowledge and skills a project manager needs to update a project plan in Project 2016 during the execution, monitoring, and controlling phases of a project. In other words, once your project plan is approved by the project sponsor, this course will enable you to manage the project so that it is completed on time, within budget, and according to scope.
Course Content: Part I
Unit 1: Using templates and importing data
Topic A: Working with templates
Topic B: Creating projects from other programs
Unit 2: Managing a project
Topic A: Setting baselines
Topic B: Updating an active project
Topic C: Monitoring progress
Unit 3: Analyzing and adjusting the plan
Topic A: Analyzing the plan
Topic B: Delays and conflicts
Unit 4: Working with reports
Topic A: Standard reports
Topic B: Visual reports
Unit 5: Customizing Project
Topic A: Custom views
Topic B Gantt chart formatting
Topic C: Custom fields
Unit 6: Managing multiple projects
Topic A: Consolidating and sharing projects
Unit 7: Exchanging project information
TopicA: Hyperlinks
Topic B: Exporting to Office applications