Description

Look at some of the more advanced planning features available in Project.

Course overview

Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours)

Our Project – Advanced Planning and Control course looks at advanced planning and resourcing techniques in Microsoft Project and how to customise your schedule to give better visibility and flexibility.

The course is designed for experienced users of Project who have attended our Project Planning and Control introduction course or have equivalent knowledge. You must be confident using Project to build and resource schedules and create task dependencies.

Objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to:

Work with different types of task

Amend resource load on a task

Work with multiple resource rates

Create custom tables

Add custom fields

Create calculated fields

Add drop down lists in fields

Filter and extract information

Create new views

Export information

Content

Advanced planning techniques

Splitting tasks

Task types

Spreading work across activities

Advanced resourcing techniques

Resource types

Assignment views

Effective dates

Work contours

Overtime work

Using multiple resource rates

Creating custom tables

Customising tables

Adding fields

Creating custom fields

Adding text, number, date and time fields

Using flag fields

Defining pick lists

Renaming custom fields

Creating calculated fields

Creating formulas

Using graphical indicators

Uploading and tracking progress

Completing work

Completing work per resource

Updating tasks

Updating the project

Working with the status date

Rescheduling work

Viewing baseline against schedule

Project overview statistics

Working with filters

Building standard filters

Building interactive filters

Task and resource filters

Using highlight filters

Creating custom views

Creating customised views

Customising text styles

Using grouping techniques

Exporting information

Exporting to Excel

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Project Advanced Planning and Control

By Underscore Group

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