Microsoft Project Orange Belt® 2016
This workshop gives participants a full insight into creating effective schedules using Microsoft® Project 2016, allowing you to estimate, coordinate, budget, staff, and control projects and support other users.
This workshop gives participants a full insight into creating effective schedules using Microsoft® Project 2016, allowing you to estimate, coordinate, budget, staff, and control projects and support other users. This workshop provides the eBook Dynamic Scheduling with Microsoft® Project 2013, and is kept up to date with the framework of knowledge outlined by the Project Management Institute's PMBOK® Guide and the Practice Standard for Scheduling.
What you Will Learn
You'll learn how to:
Understand what's new in Project 2016
Explain where Project 2016 fits in the Microsoft® EPM solution
Initialize Project 2016 to start project planning
Create a well-formed project schedule
Understand task types and the schedule formula
Assign resources and costs to tasks
Analyze resource utilization and optimize the schedule
Set a baseline and track progress
Create and manage project reports
Customize views and fields
Apply Earned Value Management
Understand the basics of managing multiple projects
Getting Started
Introductions
Course structure
Course goals and objectives
Concepts of Project Management
Getting Started with Project 2016
Project 2016: What's New and General Overview
Setting Up a New Project Schedule (templates, options, save, etc.)
Setting the Project Calendar
Entering Tasks
The planning processes
Importing tasks (Word, Excel, SharePoint)
Synchronizing with SharePoint Tasks List
Creating and managing the WBS (include tasks, manually scheduled tasks, summary tasks, milestones, and custom WBS coding)
Entering Estimates
Tendencies in estimating
The rolling wave approach
Entering duration and work estimates
Types of tasks
Entering Dependencies
The principle of dynamic scheduling
Choosing the right Type of dependency
Entering dependencies in Project 2016
Different applications of dependencies
Entering Deadlines, Constraints, and Task Calendars
Use of deadlines and constraints
Entering deadlines and constraints in Project 2016
Entering Resources and Costs
Types of resources
Entering resources in Project 2016
Calendars and resources
Entering costs in Project 2016
Entering Assignments
Assignments in a schedule
Assignments and task types
Entering assignments in Project 2016
Assignments, budgets, and costs
Optimizing the Schedule
The critical path method (CPM) and the resource critical path (RCP)
Resource leveling
Optimizing time, cost, and resources in Project 2016
Updating the Schedule
The baseline
Updating strategies and situations
Prepare the status and forecast report in Project 2016
Reporting
Using reports
Using Visual Reports
Formatting and printing in Project 2016
Customizing fields in Project 2016
Earned Value Management (EVM)
Overview of EVM
Applying EVM with Project 2016
Evaluating the Project
Evaluating the project performance
Project benefits and results
Templates for future projects
Summary and Next steps
Tools and checklist
Best practices checklist
Certification options