Overview
This 3-day course is designed with the intention that the participant learn how to use this tool and use it to make a detailed planning of each project element, to be useful in the tasks tracking during execution, and focused on the facilities you have in the generation of reports and communications; monitor the completion of tasks, use of resources, and the total project cost.
Prerequisites
No prerequisites for this course.
Who Should Attend?
This course is recommended for Project Managers, managers, schedulers, and other project stakeholders who need to learn how to make planning, manage and control projects with MS Project 2016.
Course Outline
- Contributions of MS Project 2016 to the project management
- MS Project 2016 Upgrades and a quick view of the menus
- Main views and tables
- Choose the views showing tasks, resources and assignment information
- Combination between the table and the views
Lab: Introduction to Project 2016
- Introduction to MS Project adjustment
- Using different methods to create a new project from an Excel file
- Establish the general calendar
- Establish a project start and finish date
- Set Project 2013 to calculate the project from the start date forward or from the end date backward
- Establish different calendars
Lab: MS Project 2016
- Introduction to auto mode and manual mode
- Change the programation modes
- Advantages of programation modes
Lab: Auto mode and Manual mode
- Utility of work breakdown structure WBS
- Build and use subordinate tasks and summary tasks
- Configuring the WBS
- Assign allocation criteria
- Understand and use milestones
- Understand and use templates for WBS
Lab: Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Types of task sequences
- Common methods for creating dependencies
- Other methods of sequence
- Utility of use lag, lead and delay
- Programation of use lag, lead and delay
- Show the task sequences
- Network diagram format
- Modifying dependency lines
Lab: Documenting task and their interrelationships
- Definition of the types of resources
- Registry of the resources
- Schedule for each type of resource
- Analyze the impact in the schedule
Lab: Define resources within project
- Terms of task and resource programation
- Estimates of work packages
- Effort and task types
- Implications of task types
- Assign resources to the tasks
- Tasks driven by effort
- Assign quantity and cost for the resources in the tasks
- Team organizator
Lab: Estimates Work Packages
- Utility of the project critical path
- Check the slack in the detailed Gantt diagram
- Check the slack adding the column of permitted lag
- Constraints
- Configurate milestones
- The inspector tasks
- Quick access to the inspector tasks
Lab: Creating the initial schedule
- Requirement to level the resources
- Graphics resource and resource use
- Use of the task
- Team organizator
- Redistribution option with slack
- Redistribution options
- Stats of the project
Lab: Resource Leveling
- Management of the project
- Establish the project baseline
- Establish multiple project baselines
- Definition of monitoring the project
- Record the advance of a task using real work
- How does the task advance impact in the project advance
- Detailed format of the task
- Task use format
- Different data tables
- Inactive task and interrupted task
Lab: Managing the project
- Different ways to print
- Time scale
- Gantt diagram format
- Entry tables aggrupation format
- Call, create and configure a new column
- Reports
- Visual reports
Lab: Configure and print reports
- Add a subproject
- Create a master file
- Share resources
Lab: Managing multiple projects
- Project management
- Add quick access menus and options menus
- Customize WBS
- Formulas and graphical indicators
- Record macros
- Create templates
Lab: Advanced Topics
