Microsoft Project Blue Belt 2013

Identify the project's life cycle

Understand the Enterprise Project Management (EPM) environment

Apply the basic project management principles to selecting, initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing your Project 2013 schedules

Take advantage of new features

Explain Project Server 2013 views and project sites

Meet deadlines and budget restrictions

Keep the workloads of your resources within their available limits

Efficiently update your schedule

Take advantage of the standard reports, custom views, and visual reports for your projects

Take a brief look at the Business Intelligence potential

Efficiently and effectively manage your project(s) and programs

Work comfortably within Project Server 2013 or Project Online

Describing the EPM context

Discovering Project Server 2013 and Project Online

Differentiating the users of Project Server 2013

Working with Project Professional 2013 and Project Server 2013

Portfolio management and governance

Originating new initiatives within EPTs and workflows

Prioritizing initiatives, analyzing scenarios, optimizing, and selecting the portfolio

Initiating processes with Project Professional, SharePoint lists, Enterprise Projects, and Resource Plans

Importing projects and managing project owner and permissions

Planning context and framework

Scheduling in PWA

Using the Deliverables feature

Building a project team

Managing resource availability

Reviewing the assignment cycle

Resolving resource overallocation

Developing components of the Cost Management Planning processes

Working with the baseline in projects and programs or master schedules

Creating the Project Sites

Developing components of the Risk Management Plan and Issues Tracking

Linking planning documents

Additional apps and customization

Understanding executing processes

Managing resources using Build Team and other features

Working with timesheets

Reporting administrative time

Configuring personal settings

Understanding the Monitoring and Controlling processes

Task progress and updates in PWA including considerations for different tracking methods

Task progress and updates in Project Professional 2013

Understanding status reports

Reviewing performance metrics and progress reports

Taking advantage of preloaded reports at the Business Intelligence Center

Considerations for defining custom reports

Reviewing the closing processes and closing tasks to updates

Supporting the closing process