Managing Projects with MS Projects

The MS Project Program is an invaluable Project Management Support tool. If you know how to practically apply MS Project to your project, it can become your "road map" to successfully controlling, simplifying and speeding up a project!

This 2 day course will show you how to save Valuable Time by providing you with a step-by-step guide to quickly setting up a project in MS Project, automating as many tasks as possible, and managing the project with a range of status reports that assist in keeping the project on time and within budget.

Attending this practical 2 day course will ensure delegates are fully equipped with the knowledge to:

• Quickly and accurately set up a Project in the MS Project environment, ensuring it is correct and reflects the exact needs and specific scope of your project
• Prepare a comprehensive Task Schedule to define essential activities and milestones that will provide time frames for when each activity needs to be completed
• Establish your project's "Critical Path", allowing you to constantly monitor and re-assign resources to vital tasks which could otherwise delay the entire project
• Use customised, graphically illustrated reports drawn from MS Project as vital communication tools to ensure all team members are kept up to date with the progress of the project
• Monitor, control and track the progress of the project, stage by stage, by comparing Baseline Estimates with Actual Costs to ensure you keep control of the variances
• Make the most of the "shortcuts" MS Project has to offer, saving you valuable time while improving the overall structure and management of your project

MS Project is a valuable resource allowing Project Managers to effortlessly prioritise their workload, organise and track tasks / resources, helping to keep projects on time and within the specified budget.

This intensive 2 Day course concentrates on the practical process of running a project using the MS Project software and features. You will discover (and practice) setting up an actual project on MS Project and learn how to make use of the software's advanced features to fine tune the project's scheduling and resource allocation.

The experienced course leader will ensure that you:

• Understand the simplest method for undertaking the planning of a project, using the MS Project software.
• Avoid the common mistakes usually encountered when setting a project up on MS Project
• Learn the most time-efficient methods for keeping the software up-to-date as the project progresses.
• Understand the importance of the tracking process throughout the duration of the project
• Create easily accessible, up-to-the minute reports, keeping your team members informed at all times
• Learn to prevent the costly effects that unforeseen delays can have by conducting thorough "if-then" scenarios

The two days spent on this course will ensure that you learn how MS Project will save you huge amounts of time when it comes to setting up your project while making future monitoring easier to do. You will leave with a better understanding of how to use the many features incorporated into MS Project to make managing a project simpler and more effective.