Description

This training will mainly teach you how to plan tasks, allocate resources, budget and monitor activities with MS-Project. Numerous practical exercises will allow you to get to grips with the software in an operational manner.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

Project managers. Project engineers. Department heads. Planners.

Prerequisites

Know the basics of project management..

Training objectives

Navigate in the MS-Project interface, use the different interfaces and reports

Create tasks in the project and associate durations with them

Establish the sequence logic between tasks

Optimize the margins and the critical path of the project

Associate resources to the project and improve their use

Monitor the progress of the project and analyze gaps

Training program

• Introduction
  • - Definition of the planning problem.
  • - Functions and uses of MS-Project.
• Getting started with MS-Project
  • - Presentation of the elements of the work environment: toolbars, tables, displays, contextual help.
  • - Configuration prior to planning: choice of time and work units, calendar and options.
  • - Practical work Understand the interface.
  • - Initialize the project.
• Setting up the schedule
  • - Creating tasks.
  • - Manipulating tasks: moving, modifying, deleting.
  • - Tracing the PERT network.
  • - Understanding the different types constraints.
  • - Analysis of the schedule, identification of margins and the critical path.
  • - Practical work Handle the tasks, establish the sequence logic.
  • - Enter durations.
  • - Show margins and critical path.
  • - Trace changes.
  • - Adjust delays.
• Resource allocation
  • - Creation and allocation of resources.
  • - Presentation of task types.
  • - Definition of assignment profiles.
  • - Practical work Create and allocate resources.
  • - Control overloads.
• Mise en place du budget

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• Project follow up
  • - The indicators: the reference, the consumption, the necessary to finish, the progress, the estimate at the end.
  • - Setting up the reference.
  • - Updating the project: entering the consumed, entering the progress, entering the remaining work.
  • - Practical work Save the initial planning.
  • - Define and display the status date.
  • - Automatic progress.
  • - Analyze the project.
• Use of the schedule
  • - Customization of the graphic appearance of a task.
  • - Adding texts to the schedule.
  • - Presentation of reports.
  • - Preparation planning for a meeting.
  • - Practical work Describe a task or milestone.
  • - List of tasks for a resource.
  • - Cost analysis .