Why and for whom?
Developing a software product, publishing a newsletter, implementing a training program, starting a new business or even building a new home are some of the projects that millions of people embark upon everyday. How does Microsoft Project help you do this? It helps you put together a plan of action, fill in and organize all the details that must be completed in order to achieve your goal. Right from building a new project to preparing your project for publication, tracking progress, analyzing costs, assessing the quality of your project and managing multiple projects, Microsoft Project does it all.
The purpose of this workshop is to explore this powerful project management tool - ranging from scheduling tasks, assigning resources, resources costing, tracking project with baselines, reporting using Visual Report, Reports, Compare Projects tools.
This workshop is intended for project managers, engineers, executives, business owners in any of industries that needs to manage project scheduling with Gantt Chart, costing, tracking with resources (people, machines etc).
What will you learn?
During the workshop, we provide hands-on, step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish our course objectives, ie. able to use these powerful project management tools in Ms. Project to handle many aspects of project management:
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A. Working Times
- Create Working Times for business, Individual Resources (People)
- Nonworking time, Working Time
- Create working times to cater Malaysian/local working hours, Malaysian local holidays
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B. Gantt Chart
- Create Gantt Chart
- Tracking Gantt
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C. Task
- Type of Tasks (Summary Task, Task, Recurring Task, Milestone)
- Add Link between Predecessor Task and Successor Task
- Type of Links (Finish to start, Finish to Finish, Start to Finish, Start to Start)
- Add Deadline to a task
- Add Constraint to a task
- Type of Constraints
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D. Resources
- Type of Resources (Cost, Work or Material)
- Define Cost of Resources, Standard Rate e.g. $50/hr, Overtime Rate, Cost per Use
- Define Cost Rate Table (different prices for single Resource, such as Retail Price, Wholesale Price)
- Assign Resources to a task
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E. Project
- Define Project Information such as Project Name, Project Manager, Project Start Date
- View Project Statistic
- Define Project Baseline(s) for comparison baseline with actual progress
- View Variance of Project Cost, Schedule (the Difference of Baseline and Actual Progress)
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F. Project Costing
- Use Resource Cost Rate Table
- Define Fixed Cost of a task or the total project
- Get the Cost of the Project which is consituted by Resource Cost + Fixed Cost
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G. Tracking a Project
- Tracking the project with a baseline defined
- Use Progress Line to track a project
- Baseline Cost Vs Actual Cost
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H. Fine-tuning a Project
- Overallocation
- Slack Time (Free Slack or Total Slack)
- Work Contour
- Split a task or delay a task to solve Overallocation
- Use Resource Leveling tool to solve Overallocation
- Publish the project information into PDF format
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I.Reporting
- Reports Tool
- Visual Report Tool to Excel PivotTable
- Compare Projects Tool
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L1: Introducing Ms Project
L2: Building a Project
L3: Assigning Resources
L4: Fine-Tuning Project
L5: Formatting Project Information
L6: Printing Project Information
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L7: Tracking a Project
L8: Working with Multiple Projects
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Execises
Several exercises will be given during the workshop.
What will you receive?
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For every enrolment, the participant will receive a training manual
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