Description

Monitoring the content of your project, making it visible to yourself and to stakeholders, requires a good understanding of planning methods and tools. This course will help you master these techniques, through case studies, illustrated and implemented with MS-Project 2010.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

Project managers, project planners.

Prerequisites

Training objectives

Monitor the content of your project Communicate with stakeholders Apply project planning methods Use project planning tools

Training program

• Introduction
  • - Definition of a project approach.
  • - Planning and monitoring in the project process.
• Planning techniques
  • - Identify the tasks of a project.
  • - Build the PERT network, specifying the dependencies between the tasks.
  • - Identify the margins and the critical path of the project .
  • - Assign resources to tasks.
  • - Understand the work-unit-duration relationship.
  • - Optimize resources on the project.
  • - Save the initial planning.
  • - Practical work Establish a Pert network.
  • - Calculation of dates at the earliest, at the latest, margins, optimize the network.
  • - Planning on MS-Project.
  • - Optimize resource usage.
  • - Initial planning.
• Project management
  • - Progress indicators, utilization coefficient, speed and performance, remaining charges.
  • - Economic indicators: CBTP, CBTE, CRTE.
  • - The various reports (activity, progress.
  • - ).
  • - Contingency management: steering committee, project triangle.
  • - Individual monitoring and project monitoring.
  • - Practical work Establish a dashboard from activity reports.
  • - Build dashboards with MS-Project.
• The resources
  • - Definition of human and logistics resources.
  • - Task/resource association, reservation and allocation.
  • - Translation of resources into cost.
  • - Practical work Modify resource associations.
  • - Edit project costs.
• Multi-project monitoring
  • - Presentation of standardized divisions: PBS, WBS, OBS.
  • - Inter-project planning constraints, shared resources.
  • - Practical work Decomposition of the project into sub-projects.
• Case study with MS-Project
  • - Presentation of the case study.
  • - Views, filters and diagrams: personalize interfaces with MS-Project.
  • - Management by resources or by duration.
  • - Summary tasks.
  • - Auditing resources.
  • - Capturing resource activity.
  • - Understanding monitoring indicators.
  • - Project assessment.
  • - Practical work Entering an initial plan then modified.
  • - Entering progress standard and simplified.
  • - Management of contingencies during the month, recording of progress by messaging.
  • - Project report.