Project 2003: Advanced Course (2 day)

Course Overview

After completing this course, you will know how to:

Save a baseline plan; update percentage of tasks completed, actual start and finish dates, in-progress tasks, and actual work completed; save an interim plan; display the Earned Value table to monitor the actual and estimated costs of tasks; and view task progress in Network Diagram view. Analyze a project by viewing its statistics, slippage, and slack in the schedule and reschedule a project by splitting tasks, delaying resource work, and assigning overtime. Format a project file by modifying bar styles and timescales, use the Drawing toolbar to enhance the Gantt chart information, print current views and reports, and create a custom report and a Crosstab report. Create a custom Network Diagram view and a combination view, create and run a macro to automate tasks, create and delete a toolbar and a menu, and create a custom table by using the More Tables dialog box. Consolidate project files, link tasks across projects, assign project and task priorities, share project elements globally and with specific projects, and share resources across projects. Communicate project information, sending task assignments and status requests and by sending project notes, export project data to the Web by saving the project file as a Web page, add hyperlinks to the project file, save projects in a Microsoft Project 2003 format, and identify potential lost elements. Import data from a Microsoft Excel worksheet and a Microsoft Access database, export data to a Microsoft Excel worksheet and a Microsoft Access database, and copy project information to a Microsoft Word.

Audience

Users wishing to build their existing skills of Project 2003 to power user level. This course would also suit Project Directors or Programme Managers wishing to learn how to customise the Microsoft Project interface to produce views, fields and reports to their specific requirements.

Course Outline

Resolve overall locations using resource levelling and duration types

• Revision of introductory topics
• Advanced techniques for resolving overallocations including re-scheduling tasks, resource levelling and Fixed
• Duration, Fixed Units and Fixed Work scheduling

Manage multiple projects

• Working with Task calendars
• Multi-project management

Integrate MS Project with other Office applications

• Integration with other Office applications
• Customise the MS Project interface

Customisation of the Project XP interface including calculated fields

• Record and run simple macros
• Import and Export data to/from MS Project
• Importing/exporting data