Unlock a world of efficient project management with our Microsoft Project 2007 course--your gateway to transforming chaos into clarity. Imagine managing projects with precision and ease, cutting through complexity with tools crafted for true leaders. This isn't just software; it's your personal project management revolution! Through engaging, hands-on experiences, you'll empower yourself with the skills to create critical path schedules, generate insightful reports, and allocate resources like a pro. Microsoft Project becomes not just a tool, but your trusted ally, as you conquer tasks big and small. Feel confident as you navigate from fundamentals to advanced techniques, supported every step of the way. Every lesson is designed to make managing your time, budget, and team feel intuitive and straightforward. Why settle for less when you can master the best? Propel your career forward by joining a community of proactive innovators and take command of your future. This course isn't just an option; it's a necessity for anyone aspiring to excel in project management. Are you ready to elevate your capability and become indispensable in the workplace? Your journey to mastery starts here. Enroll now!
Lesson 1. Mastering Project Organization: An Introduction to Microsoft Project 2007
Unlike the rest of the 2007 Office Suite, MS Project retains its traditional interface, ensuring users familiar with earlier versions experience a seamless transition. The software provides diverse views like the Gantt chart and Network Diagram, allowing users to efficiently organize and track project tasks and timelines.
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Lesson 1: Introduction to MS Project 2007+
If your company has a project that needs to be completed, you're going to want to make sure that every aspect of it is organized so that it goes efficiently and according to budget.
Course Introduction and Goals+
Course Introduction and Goals
Lesson 2. Project Initiation Essentials
The lesson covers strategies for initiating new projects, such as starting from scratch or utilizing the Project Guide, each providing unique benefits. Further, it dives into task creation, management, and the dynamics of effort-driven assignments while discussing the use of import tools from Excel and Outlook.
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Lesson 2: Creating and Defining Projects+
When you want to start a new project, you have two choices.
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Lesson 2 Activity
Lesson 3. Calendars in MS Project: Keeping Your Tasks and Resources on Track
Successful project management in MS Project relies heavily on setting correct calendars like Base, Project, and Resource, which account for nonworking days and specific work shifts. Mastery of these calendar settings is crucial for ensuring tasks are completed on time.
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Lesson 3: Calendars+
In MS Project, the calendar shows the various hours in a workday, the days in a work week, holidays, and nonworking days on which a project schedule is based.
Lesson 4. Mastering the Art of Task Organization
Creating a task hierarchy with summary tasks and subtasks allows for clear project organization and management. This structure, along with the WBS code system, helps in tracking progress and updating plans dynamically.
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Lesson 4: Organizing Tasks+
In the last lesson, we learned how to create tasks.However, if you just created a long list of tasks, managing these tasks could get very daunting.
Lesson 5. Understanding Task Durations and Dependency Types in Project Scheduling
Setting task duration requires entering the time it takes for completion, using units like days or weeks, and marking it as estimated when uncertain. To signify milestones with no duration, you enter zero, and for recurring tasks, set intervals in the project schedule.
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Lesson 5: Working with Task Duration, Estimates, and Dependencies+
Whenever you create a task, you have to set the duration for the task, or how long it will take to complete.
Lesson 6. Exploring the Interplay of Deadlines and Task Calendars in Project Management
Constraints in Project control task timing and can impact project schedules significantly, so they're best used sparingly and only when necessary for timing management.
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Lesson 6: Working with Deadlines, Constraints, and Task Calendars+
Of course, when you have a project, you're going to need the project to be completed by a certain date.
Lesson 7. Resource Essentials: Navigate, Add, and Assign in Project 2007
In this lesson, we discovered that tasks drive project completion, but resources enable the completion of tasks, including people, equipment, and costs. We learned how to manage resources in Project 2007 by using the Resource Sheet and applying costs effectively to tasks and resources.
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Lesson 7: Working with Resources+
So far in this course, we've mainly talked about tasks because these are the elements that drive your project forward.
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Lesson 7 Activity
Lesson 8. Crafting Your Own Project Space: Customization and Formatting Techniques
Lesson 8 empowers Microsoft Project users to tailor visual elements to their preferences by altering text box designs and layouts, as well as by crafting custom filters and groups. The lesson also includes a guide on creating templates to maintain consistency across projects using frequent tasks.
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Lesson 8: Customizing and Formatting+
As with any Microsoft software program, you can customize and format different elements to give them the look and feel you want, or to tailor them to your own needs.
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Lesson 8 Activity
Lesson 9. Finding the Right Fit: Key Elements in Resource Selection
Monitoring resource availability and allocation prevents overbooking and burnout, using tools such as the Resource Usage view to track workloads. Effective resource management ensures tasks aren't delayed and schedules remain on track.
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Lesson 9: Resource Management+
The key to successful projects and excellent project management is finding the right resources.
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Lesson 9 Activity
Lesson 10. Understanding Baselines: A Key to Tracking Project Progress
A baseline in project management serves as a benchmark for tracking the comparison between planned and actual project activities, aiding significantly in identifying deviations like delays and budget overruns. Interim plans, acting as mini-baselines, capture only timing information, facilitating monitoring of date changes without impacting original cost data.
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Lesson 10: Tracking Progress+
We've mentioned baselines already in this course. Now it's time to actually learn what a baseline is and how to use it in Project.
Lesson 11. Creating and Customizing Project Reports
Visual reports, akin to Excel's Pivot tables, provide a multifaceted view of project data, offering valuable insights and supporting time-phased analysis. This lesson explores six categories, ensuring you can view task, resource, and assignment usage data in both Excel and Visio.
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Lesson 11: Running Reports+
Finally! You've done it. You've taken the time to enter all your tasks, create dependencies, enter your resources, and assign your resources to tasks.
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Lesson 11 Activity
Lesson 12. Printing Essentials in Project
Ensure crisp and organized printed materials from your project by effectively using Page Setup to manage scaling, orientation, and margins. Enhance readability with customized headers and legends, and double-check everything via Print Preview before finalizing.
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Lesson 12: Printing Project Information+
You can print any information that you have in your project. This includes the various views.
This lesson covers the creation and management of resource pools, providing an organized approach to project management through shared resources. By understanding and applying methods for updating resource pools and managing conflicts, projects can achieve better resource utilization and avoid unnecessary redundancies.
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Lesson 13: Consolidating Projects and Resources+
Now that we've learned how to use Project to create and manage projects, we're going to talk about pooling resources,
The Final Exam+
The Final Exam
In This Course
13 Hours average completion time
1.3 CEUs
13 Lessons
21 Exams & Assignments
28 Reference Files
Mobile Friendly
Last Updated May 2024
Description
Microsoft Project 2007 is a project management software that helps project managers better structure, organize, and plan for all their projects. This includes budgets, tasks, resources, assignments, and everything in between. It can create critical path schedules, generate budgets, and create detailed reports on whatever aspect of your project you want to view. If it relates to managing your project, Project 2007 can help you do it.
The purpose of this course is to introduce Project to users and to teach them the features they need to learn in order to successfully be able to use this software for small or large projects -- or any size between. Microsoft Project 2007 is a large software program and can seem complex to someone who has never used it before or has limited experience. However, the basics of the program are easy to learn and, once you've learned the basics, mastering the advanced techniques becomes quick and simple. It's safe to say that this program can easily become a project manager's best friend because it makes the hard work and headaches of managing a large project a lot easier.
Whether or not you've used a version of Project before, this course starts out with the basics so you're never left stumbling and confused. In the beginning, you'll learn how to navigate through so the look and feel becomes familiar. Then, we'll move on to the features and teach you how to apply each feature to your projects. When you're finished with this course, you will have the skills to use Microsoft Project 2007 to assist you in managing all your projects.
Skills You'll Develop
Critical path analysis proficiency
Skillful navigation of the MS Project interface
Enhanced project scheduling abilities
Customizing project views and reports
Improved resource management techniques
Efficient use of project calendars
Mastery of project baseline monitoring
Hands-on experience with shared resource pools
Utilizing diverse project report generation tools
Crafting personalized templates and filters
Creation of task hierarchies and dependencies
Skills You'll Develop
Critical path analysis proficiency
Skillful navigation of the MS Project interface
Enhanced project scheduling abilities
Customizing project views and reports
Improved resource management techniques
Efficient use of project calendars
Mastery of project baseline monitoring
Hands-on experience with shared resource pools
Utilizing diverse project report generation tools
Crafting personalized templates and filters
Creation of task hierarchies and dependencies
More About This Course
Ensure Accurate Scheduling: Master calendar settings for precise timelines
Master Project Management: Efficiently organize and track projects
Enhance Task Organization: Build clear task hierarchies and progress tracking
Simplify Task Scheduling: Learn to set task durations effectively
Avoid Overbooking: Use resource views to prevent burnout and conflicts
Monitor Progress: Use baselines to track project progress accurately
Optimize Resource Use: Navigate and manage resources skillfully
Create Detailed Reports: Gain insights with visual and data reports
Produce Professional Prints: Enhance print materials with formatting tools
Customize Your Workspace: Tailor visual elements and formats
Streamline Project Initiation: Start projects with ease using Project Guide
What You'll Achieve
Define and describe the three key components of project management (cost, time, scope) using MS Project 2007.
Demonstrate the ability to navigate the MS Project 2007 interface by selecting appropriate views and utilizing basic tools for project setup.
Define the process of creating a new project using Project Guide, including entering tasks and saving project details.
Demonstrate how to import tasks into a project from Excel or Outlook and modify them using the Task Information dialogue box.
Define the function and interaction of Base, Project, Task, and Resource calendars in MS Project.
Demonstrate setting and modifying working hours, days, and exceptions using the Project, Task, and Resource calendars in MS Project.#
Recognize the role of summary tasks in organizing a project outline
Demonstrate how to create and indent subtasks to form a hierarchical task structure
Define and differentiate between Fixed Duration, Fixed Units, and Fixed Work task types in terms of their impact on task scheduling.
Demonstrate the process of setting task duration and managing estimated task durations using the Gantt Chart view.
Define the steps to create and modify a deadline for a task within MS Project, including selecting the date and saving the settings.
Apply and modify constraints for tasks in MS Project by selecting the type of constraint, specifying a date, and observing its effects on task timing.
Identify and list different types of resources in Project 2007 by completing the Resource Information Form, including details like name, rate, and group.
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13 Hours average completion time
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21 Exams & Assignments
28 Reference Files
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Last Updated May 2024
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