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Managing Projects with Microsoft Project provides the flexible and intuitive tools and solutions to help create the project plan, track progress, adjust resources as needed, and make the project more visible, so that others can see the status of a project. In this Microsoft Project training course, you gain the skills to manage and maintain control of multiple projects more efficiently for your organization.
The overall aim of this course is to train participants on the use of Microsoft Project software and enable them to discover most of its features. Participants will be able to develop project schedules and calendars, customize different charts, views and tables. The course also aims at training participants on different project related techniques such as resources assignments and leveling, tracking progress and consolidating project plans. Participants will learn how to do deep scheduling, resource capacity planning, progress tracking and status reporting. Participants will learn industry standard best practices for project management using Microsoft Project.
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14 PDUs included in this course!
LINE with Project VictorWhat You Get in Class
- Soft copy of all exercises and case studies discussed
- 2-Days at a reputable hotel that includes 2 coffee breaks and International Buffet lunch
- PMI® Contact Hours: Each Contact Hour is 1 PDU (Total of 14 Contact Hours/PDUs for full course)
Instructor
- President of PMI Thailand Chapter (profile on PMI Thai website)
- He is a Certified Program Management Professional (PgMP®) (Project Management Institute – www.pmi.org); Certificate # 2079271.
- He is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP/CAPM®) (Project Management Institute – www.pmi.org); Certificate #1258917
- He is an Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) (Project Management Institute – www.pmi.org); Certificate #2600926
- He is Certified Risk Management Professional (RMP®) (Project Management Institute – www.pmi.org); Certificate #2033120
- He was Vice President at one of the largest Thai Systems Integrator public company for
more than 10 years. - He has experience managing and leading mega-projects (Information Technology, Airport-related, CCTV-related, Transport-related, and Power Infrastructure) in various industries.
- He is a commercial contract manager, reviewer, and advisor.
- He teaches part-time at King Mongkut University of Technology (Thonburi) – Graduate School of Management and Innovation (Master Degree in Project Management). He is an invited lecturer to Chulalongkorn University.
- He holds a Doctorate degree obtained from Assumption University of Thailand with an international record of publications in refereed journals with a special concentration on business management.
- He has trained more than 5000 program/project managers, project engineers, project coordinators, and project team members since 2010.
- He has helped certify more than 700 Project Management Professionals (PMP/CAPM) in Thailand.
- He is also a highly experienced speaker and trainer who is also passionate about Project Management.
Participants will learn the following skills in this course:
- Creating and initializing a new project: Learn how to create and maintain calendars, custom fields and customize settings for the project.
- Creating and modifying task based schedules: Define project properties, task structure, create a schedule model, and manage shared projects.
- Managing assignments and resources efficiently: Manage resource allocation using Team Planner, and assign costs by applying resource-rate table.
- Tracking and analyzing the progress of a project: Understand how to create and maintain baselines, monitor and compare the progress of the project; and resolve any issues in the schedule.
- Communicating project related information: Learn about making the project information available for reporting, sharing and viewing.
Target Audience
Project schedulers, project planners, project coordinators, project managers, members of project office and anyone interested in project management.
Delivery Method
The course relies heavily on hands-on training using Microsoft Project software. The methods used will also include a mix of interactive techniques; brief presentations by the consultant and the participants, group exercises and discussions.
Prerequisites
Basic Knowledge of Project Management
A laptop with an installation of Microsoft Project Professional 2013, 2016, and 2019 (On Premise Solution).
Note: Microsoft provides 1-month trial version of the software.
Course Duration
Two Days (equivalent to 14 Contact Hours or Professional Development Units – PDUs)
Course Outline
About Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project Basics
Setting up a Project
Scheduling Basics
Managing Resources Basics
- Creating the WBS
- Creating the Activity List
- Activity Sequencing
- Applying Leads and Lags
- Estimating Activity Resources
- Estimating Activity Duration
- Developing the Project Schedule Network Diagram
- Determining the Critical Path
- Using the Variance Table
- Checking for Variances
- Display Work Variances
- Display Cost Variances
- Case Study: Tracking Costs
- Case Study: Cost Resources (best practice)
- Case Study: Tracking the Schedule
- Case Study: Using Subprojects
- Using Resource Pools
- Working with Different Projects
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