Course description
Microsoft Project Blue Belt® 2016
This course introduces Project Server 2016 features that expedite scheduling projects and simplify managing tasks within an enterprise environment. Learn different aspects of Project Server and their benefits to varying roles in the enterprise, and gain hands-on experience and insights on best practices from SMEs around the world.
This course introduces Project Server 2016 features that expedite scheduling projects and simplify managing tasks within an enterprise environment. Learn different aspects of Project Server and their benefits to varying roles in the enterprise, and gain hands-on experience and insights on best practices from SMEs around the world. Users in Project online will get the same benefits of this program.
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What you Will Learn
You’ll learn how to:
- Describe the Enterprise Project Management (EPM) environment
- Apply the basic project management principles of, initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing your project schedules
- Discuss new features
- Explain PWA views project sites
- Meet deadlines and budget restrictions
- Keep the workloads of your resources within their available limits
- Explain tracking methods and manage task assignments
- Update the schedule
- Differentiate between updating tasks and timesheets
- Use standard reports, custom views, and visual reports for your projects
- Recognize the potential of the Business Intelligence features
Training Course Content
Getting Started with Microsoft® Project Server 2016
- Describing the EPM context
- Discovering Project Web App
- Differentiating the users of PWA
- Working with Project Professional and PWA
Initiating Projects
- New projects with Project Professional, SharePoint lists, Enterprise Projects
- Importing schedules and managing project owner and permissions
- Customize the ribbon with enterprise commands
Planning Projects – Scope and Schedule Management
- Scheduling in PWA
- Using the Deliverables feature
- Developing components of the risk management plan and issues tracking
- Linking planning documents
Planning Projects – Staffing Management Plan
- Building a project team
- Managing resource availability
- Reviewing the assignment cycle
- Managing resource engagements
- Resolving resource overallocation
Executing, Monitoring and Controlling
- Baselines
- Working with timesheets
- Reporting administrative time
- Tracking methods (% work, actual work, single entry mode)
- Assignment progress and updates in PWA
- Task progress and updates in Project Professional and PWA
Monitor and Control Projects – Measuring Performance and Reporting Progress
- Reviewing performance metrics and progress reports
- Using the preloaded reports at the Business Intelligence Center
- Considerations for defining custom reports
Closing Projects
- Reviewing the closing processes and closing tasks to updates
- Supporting the closing process
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