Project 2003: Introduction for Beginners (2 day)

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Course Overview

This course is designed for individuals who will use Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 as a tool to assist them in managing projects. The topics in this course cover the critical skills necessary to create and modify a project plan file that contains tasks, resources, and resource assignments.

You will create a project plan file containing tasks, organise these tasks in a work breakdown structure containing task relationships, create and assign resources, and finalise the project to implement the project plan.

Audience

• The Microsoft Project 2003 Introduction course is suitable for complete beginners to Microsoft Project.
• Typical backgrounds will include new project managers, project administrators or support staff, requiring the fundamentals of Project Management.

Prerequisites

This course is designed for a person who has an understanding of project management concepts, who is responsible for creating and modifying project plans, and who needs a tool to manage those project plans.

Students enrolling in this class should have the following:

• An understanding of project management concepts.
• Knowledge of a Windows operating system.

Skills Gained

At the end of this course you will have a good working knowledge of MS Project basics. You will feel confident using Project and be able to define, schedule and monitor tasks using a variety of tools and views.

Course Outline

• Define MS Project Default Settings
• Understanding Default Settings
• Working with AutoSave Smart Tags

• Build and edit a project plan
• Building and Editing a Project
• Estimating Task Durations
• Structuring Projects
• Task Grouping
• Managing Deadlines

• Create and assign resources
• Fundamentals of multi-project management
• Creating and assigning resources including materials

• Track actual progress
• Managing and updating actuals
• Overview of filters, views and reports
• Printing

• Manage project costs
• Managing project costs
• Defining multiple resource rates and assigning fixed costs to tasks

• Resolve over allocations
• Fundamentals of resolving over allocations
• Managing and updating actuals

Project 2003: Introduction for Beginners (2 day) / MPR03-12