Microsoft Office Project - Intermediate

1 Day Duration

Overview

This intermediate course follows on from the 1 day introductory course, and looks at working with live projects, identifying slipping projects, looking at lead and lag times. This course provides delegates with hands-on demonstrations of the possible problems which can arise when working with live projects and how to overcome these.

Lead and Lag Times

What are lead and lag times?
Looking at slack within a project
Setting lead times
Setting lag times

Project Properties

Summary properties
Statistic properties
Content properties
Custom properties

Managing the Project

Critical tasks
Non-critical tasks
Recording project progress
Updating task information
Task start dates
Task completion

Working with Filters

Filtering tasks
Filtering resources
Creating custom filters

Project Views

Calendar view
Gantt chart wizard
Adding baseline
Adding critical path
Task usage view
Tracking Gantt view
Resource graph
Resource sheet
Resource usage
Custom views

Further Project Activities

Saving workspaces
Splitting tasks in a project
Working with material resources
Subprojects within a project
Levelling resources

Project Charts and Reports

Overview reports
Current activities reports
Cost reports
Assignment reports
Workload reports
Custom reports