Microsoft Project 2007 Training

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Total Items: 8
Total Time: 16 hour(s)

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Microsoft Project

Summary:

Get projects under control with Microsoft Project’s latest version, 2007. Build schedules, communicate effectively with everyone involved, chart your progress, and keep track of budget and project materials. This series will show you how to use this complex tool to save time and maximize your projects’ success.

 

Audience:

This series is for anyone who wants to learn the most commonly used features of Microsoft Office Project 2007.

Features:

  • Flash and audio provide animated, interactive Lesson Introductions, Activities, and Simulations.
  • Flash scenarios use real world situations to illustrate course concepts.
  • Streaming video scenarios illustrate real world issues and solutions discussed in the course.
  • Audio accompanies each lesson page throughout the course.
  • Decision Point activities allow learners to work toward an outcome in an interactive environment.
  • Activities allow learners to apply course concepts in an interactive questioning environment.
  • Exercises allow learners to practice in the actual application being studied.
  • A Course Topics list contains active hyperlinks, permitting quick access to specific topics.
  • Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, or in a dictionary. In addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course.
  • Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required.
  • Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
  • A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.
  • A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
  • Bookmarking tracks the learner's progress in a course.

 

Includes:

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Getting Started with Project 2007

Summary:

This course explains the fundamentals of tasks and how to customize them to effectively utilize Project 2007.

Objectives:

  • Discuss the basic concepts of project management such as setting a goal and planning, revising, and tracking a project
  • Identify basic project management terminology
  • Illustrate the process of setting up a new project in Project 2007
  • Configure a calendar in Project 2007
  • Add tasks to a project
  • Explain how to operate the Project Guide

Topics:

  • Concepts of Project Management
  • Project Management Terminology
  • Introducing Project 2007
  • Setting Calendar Options
  • Working with Tasks

Technical Requirements:

P500+ Processor, 128MB of RAM; Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Minimum screen resolution 800x600, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher; Flash 8.0 or higher; 56K minimum connection; broadband (256 kpbs or higher) connection recommended; Javascript, DHTML and cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.
Building a Project

Summary:

This course explains the fundamentals of tasks and how to customize them to effectively utilize Project 2007.

Objectives:

  • Demonstrate the fundamental customization of tasks
  • Explain how to establish task timings
  • Describe the process of creating and customizing recurring tasks and notes
  • Illustrate how to create and modify dependencies
  • Identify the process of assigning task constraints
  • Manage conflicts between constraints and dependencies

Topics:

  • Entering Tasks
  • Establishing Timing
  • Performing Other Task Operations
  • Creating Dependencies
  • Modifying Dependencies
  • Establishing Task Constraints

Technical Requirements:

P500+ Processor, 128MB of RAM; Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Minimum screen resolution 800x600, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher; Flash 8.0 or higher; 56K minimum connection; broadband (256 kpbs or higher) connection recommended; Javascript, DHTML and cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.
Setting Up Resources and Establishing Costs

Summary:

This course explains how to use Project 2007 to assign people and materials as resources to project tasks, manage the work hours of those resources, and configure and monitor project costs.

Objectives:

  • Add information to resources using the Resource Information dialog box
  • Set project start and end dates for a resource
  • Set work hours for a resource
  • Block off vacation time for a resource
  • Assign resources to a task
  • Replace resource assignments
  • Assign a fixed-cost resource to a task
  • View a project's estimated cost
  • Set up resource rate changes
  • Provide for multiple resource rates

Topics:

  • Creating a List of Resources
  • Establishing Resource Availability
  • Assigning and Removing Resources
  • Estimating Project Costs
  • Handling Resource Rate Changes

Technical Requirements:

P500+ Processor, 128MB of RAM; Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Minimum screen resolution 800x600, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher; Flash 8.0 or higher; 56K minimum connection; broadband (256 kpbs or higher) connection recommended; Javascript, DHTML and cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.
Viewing Projects

Summary:

This course explains how to use views, tables, filters, and groups to focus on various sections of projects in Project 2007.

Objectives:

  • Use views and combinations of views to organize and examine projects
  • Discuss the use of tables and how to make table adjustments
  • Examine how to use sorting and filtering to make information more understandable
  • Describe how to group tasks by common criteria

Topics:

  • Using views
  • Working with combination views
  • Changing and printing views
  • Using tables
  • Adjusting tables
  • Sorting and filtering tasks
  • Creating filters
  • Grouping information

Technical Requirements:

P500+ Processor, 128MB of RAM; Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Minimum screen resolution 800x600, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher; Flash 8.0 or higher; 56K minimum connection; broadband (256 kpbs or higher) connection recommended; Javascript, DHTML and cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.
Resolving Scheduling and Resource Conflicts

Summary:

This course explains various techniques used to adjust a project's schedule and resolve conflicts caused by the overallocation of project resources.

Objectives:

  • Resolve resource conflicts
  • Adjust project schedules and the critical path
  • Identify resource conflicts
  • Adjust resources and resource calendars
  • Level resource assignments
  • Contour resource work patterns

Topics:

  • Resolving scheduling conflicts
  • Adjusting project schedules
  • Adjusting the critical path
  • Identifying resource conflicts
  • Adjusting resources
  • Adjusting resource calendars
  • Using other time strategies
  • Leveling resource assignments
  • Contouring resource work patterns

Technical Requirements:

P500+ Processor, 128MB of RAM; Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Minimum screen resolution 800x600, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher; Flash 8.0 or higher; 56K minimum connection; broadband (256 kpbs or higher) connection recommended; Javascript, DHTML and cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.
Tracking the Progress of Projects

Summary:

In this course, you'll learn how to set a project baseline, enter tracking information, and calculate costs.

Objectives:

  • Track progress with a baseline
  • Work with an interim plan
  • Record actual start and finish dates, and remaining durations of tasks
  • Update tasks with work completed
  • Track cost information and manually override cost values

Topics:

  • Tracking progress with a baseline
  • Working with an interim plan
  • Recording actual start and finish dates
  • Recording actual and remaining durations
  • Recording work completed and updating tasks
  • Timephased fields and rescheduling remaining work
  • Tracking cost information
  • Overriding resource cost valuations

Technical Requirements:

P500+ Processor, 128MB of RAM; Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Minimum screen resolution 800x600, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher; Flash 8.0 or higher; 56K minimum connection; broadband (256 kpbs or higher) connection recommended; Javascript, DHTML and cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.
Creating Reports and Calculating Earned Values

Summary:

This course explains the reporting features of Microsoft Office Project 2007 and describes the use and calculation of earned values.

Objectives:

  • View the progress of a project
  • Print and customize a report
  • Calculate earned values
  • Use Microsoft Excel to evaluate earned values

Topics:

  • Viewing the Progress of a Project
  • Printing and Customizing Reports
  • Calculating Earned Values
  • Using Excel to Evaluate Earned Value

Technical Requirements:

P500+ Processor, 128MB of RAM; Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Minimum screen resolution 800x600, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher; Flash 8.0 or higher; 56K minimum connection; broadband (256 kpbs or higher) connection recommended; Javascript, DHTML and cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.
Consolidating Projects

Summary:

This course explains how to work with subprojects, how to create consolidated projects, and how to share resources between projects.

Objectives:

  • Describe and create subprojects
  • Consolidate subprojects and manage their links
  • Move subprojects and create dependencies between them
  • Connect and disconnect projects from resource pools

Topics:

  • Using subprojects
  • Creating a consolidated project
  • Working with consolidated projects
  • Sharing resources across projects

Technical Requirements:

P500+ Processor, 128MB of RAM; Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Minimum screen resolution 800x600, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher; Flash 8.0 or higher; 56K minimum connection; broadband (256 kpbs or higher) connection recommended; Javascript, DHTML and cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.

 

 

 

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Microsoft Project 2007 Training

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