Course description
Microsoft Project Orange Belt® 2016: In-House Training
This workshop gives participants a full insight into creating effective schedules using Microsoft® Project 2016, allowing you to estimate, coordinate, budget, staff, and control projects and support other users.
This workshop gives participants a full insight into creating effective schedules using Microsoft® Project 2016, allowing you to estimate, coordinate, budget, staff, and control projects and support other users. This workshop provides the eBook Dynamic Scheduling with Microsoft® Project 2013, and is kept up to date with the framework of knowledge outlined by the Project Management Institute’s PMBOK® Guide and the Practice Standard for Scheduling.
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What you Will Learn
You’ll learn how to:
- Understand what’s new in Project 2016
- Explain where Project 2016 fits in the Microsoft® EPM solution
- Initialize Project 2016 to start project planning
- Create a well-formed project schedule
- Understand task types and the schedule formula
- Assign resources and costs to tasks
- Analyze resource utilization and optimize the schedule
- Set a baseline and track progress
- Create and manage project reports
- Customize views and fields
- Apply Earned Value Management
- Understand the basics of managing multiple projects
Training Course Content
Getting Started
- Introductions
- Course structure
- Course goals and objectives
Concepts of Project Management
Getting Started with Project 2016
- Project 2016: What’s New and General Overview
- Setting Up a New Project Schedule (templates, options, save, etc.)
- Setting the Project Calendar
Entering Tasks
- The planning processes
- Importing tasks (Word, Excel, SharePoint)
- Synchronizing with SharePoint Tasks List
- Creating and managing the WBS (include tasks, manually scheduled tasks, summary tasks, milestones, and custom WBS coding)
Entering Estimates
- Tendencies in estimating
- The rolling wave approach
- Entering duration and work estimates
- Types of tasks
Entering Dependencies
- The principle of dynamic scheduling
- Choosing the right Type of dependency
- Entering dependencies in Project 2016
- Different applications of dependencies
Entering Deadlines, Constraints, and Task Calendars
- Use of deadlines and constraints
- Entering deadlines and constraints in Project 2016
Entering Resources and Costs
- Types of resources
- Entering resources in Project 2016
- Calendars and resources
- Entering costs in Project 2016
Entering Assignments
- Assignments in a schedule
- Assignments and task types
- Entering assignments in Project 2016
- Assignments, budgets, and costs
Optimizing the Schedule
- The critical path method (CPM) and the resource critical path (RCP)
- Resource leveling
- Optimizing time, cost, and resources in Project 2016
Updating the Schedule
- The baseline
- Updating strategies and situations
- Prepare the status and forecast report in Project 2016
Reporting
- Using reports
- Using Visual Reports
- Formatting and printing in Project 2016
- Customizing fields in Project 2016
Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Overview of EVM
- Applying EVM with Project 2016
Evaluating the Project
- Evaluating the project performance
- Project benefits and results
- Templates for future projects
Summary and Next steps
- Tools and checklist
- Best practices checklist
- Certification options
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