About the workshop:
This course offers necessary project management skills to professionals who are in project management role with limited experience and understanding of project management principles and concepts. This course will give participants the confidence to lead the projects effectively and achieve high performance.
Microsoft Project is most widely used tool for project scheduling and tracking across industries. However due to lack of proper training and knowledge about the capabilities of Microsoft Project, only a small proportion of Project Management community is able to take full advantage of this tool.
Take Away:
This training provides concepts, principles and practical skills for playing project management role with the help of MS Project 2013. This course introduces project management core skills necessary for planning, monitoring and controlling a project and demonstrates practical implementation of the same using MS Project 2013.
After this course participants will be equipped with knowledge & understanding, of project management fundamentals, concepts, practical skills, tools and techniques to manage with confidence and have better control over their projects. They will be able to plan, track and report more effectively.
Prerequisites: Participants need to bring their own laptop with MS Office installed!
Contents:
The fundamentals
• Planning the project
• Understanding project management
• What’s new in Project
• Understanding the Project screen
• Using common views
• Using more views
• Creating a new project
• Selecting the project scheduling date
• Selecting the project calendar
• Adjusting working hours
• Adjusting working days
• Creating a new calendar
• Printing a view
• Using help
Entering the task list
• Entering tasks
• Estimating task duration
• Entering task duration
• Entering a milestone
• Organizing tasks into phases
• Linking tasks
• Editing task links
• Unlinking tasks
• Creating recurring tasks
• Using the task information dialog box
• Using task notes
• Moving and copying a task
• Inserting and deleting a task
Entering and assigning resources
• Entering people resources
• Entering equipment resources
• Entering material resources
• Adjusting individual resource working schedules
• Using resource notes
• Understanding effort driven scheduling
• Assigning resources to tasks
• Assigning additional resources to tasks
• Assigning material resources to tasks
Viewing the project
• Using split views
• Sorting information
• Grouping information
• Filtering information
• Using AutoFilters
• Using zoom
Working with reports
• Opening a report
Working with tasks changing
• Task scheduling mode
• Overlapping tasks
• Delaying tasks
• Setting task deadlines
• Setting task constraints
• Splitting tasks
• Understanding task type
• Assigning a task calendar
• Understanding task indicators
Working with resources
• Delaying resource start time
• Applying predefined resource contours
• Specifying resource availability dates
• Grouping resources
• Assigning a resource calendar
Working with costs
• Entering resource overtime rates
• Specifying pay rates for different dates
• Adding pay rates for a resource
• Applying a different pay rate to an assignment
• Using material resource consumption rates
• Entering task fixed costs
Balancing your project
• Scheduling resource overtime
• Identifying resource over allocation
• Balancing resource over allocations
• manually and automatically
Updating project progress
• Saving a baseline plan
• Updating the entire project
• Updating task actual values
• Updating task completion percentage
• Updating actual work and actual costs
Checking project progress
• Viewing project statistics
• Viewing project costs
• Viewing the project’s critical path
• Checking duration vMyISAMnce
• Checking work vMyISAMnce
• Checking cost vMyISAMnce
• Identifying slipped tasks
• Saving an interim plan
Working with reports
• Opening a report
• Adding page elements to a report
• Creating visual reports
Working with multiple projects
• Consolidating projects
• Viewing multiple project critical paths
• Viewing consolidated project statistics
• Creating a resource pool
Who should attend?
This course is designed for the professionals who have limited experience or knowledge of project management but responsible for managing, leading, coordinating and working on projects. Project Managers, Project Leads, Project team members, Business Analysts, Technical Specialists, Quality Professionals, Support Staff and Marketing people. No prior knowledge of project management or MS Project is expected.
Medium: English/ Hindi/ Marathi.
Fees and Registration:
Investment: Rs. 3,600/- + GST 18% per person.
Incentive: Rs. 3,400/- + GST 18% per person for a group of Three or more Members from the same Organization.
Fees include participation, course material (Hard copies), Breakfast, Lunch and tea / coffee.
Kindly provide below details for registration to Email: iitdpune@gmail.com; rajiv@iitdworld.com
• Name of the workshop:
• Name of the participants with Email ID & Mo. Number:
• Company Name and address:
• GSTN Number:
Please reply on E Mail – iitdpune@gmail.com or rajiv@iitdworld.com
Venue may change depending upon no. of nominations
Pre-payment and pre-registration is required
Participation fee is non-refundable/ non-adjustable against any other programmeof IITD, but change in nomination(s) is accepted
Invoicing for all nomination(s) confirmed by sponsoring companies will be done compulsorily. Participation fees are non-refundable/ non-adjustable against any other programme of IITD, but change in nomination(s) is accepted.
If by some reason the program gets postponed from our side, we will refund your entire payment.
The participation fee can be paid by way of DD/Cheque drawn in favour of “Indian Institute of Training & Development” payable at Pune or through NEFT.