Microsoft Project 2007 Training

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.
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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.

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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.

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:

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:

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

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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:

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:

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:

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:

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Total Items: 8
Total Hours: 16
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