IS Project Management, Project Management

IS Project Management, Project Management
Orsys, with 30 years of experience, is providing high quality, independant State of the Art
seminars and hands-on courses corresponding to the needs of IT professionals. Orsys
proposes a set of courses on the most important topics in IT technologies and management.
Multiprojets, portfolio, bureau de projets (PMO)
MS Project 2013: Leading an IT Project
(réf. PIR)
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Hands-on course , 3
day(s)
Ref : PIR
MS Project 2013: Leading an IT Project
Participants
This course will show you all the features of Microsoft Project 2013. Using a real-world case, it will teach you
how to implement those features. At the end of the course, you'll be proficient in MS Project 2013 and able to
use it to manage and optimize your projects.
Project managers, department
heads, project engineers,
planners, project management
team members.
Pre-requisites
Basic knowledge of MS
Project. Experience desirable
in project planning.
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OBJECTIVES
Organize the work environment with MS Project.
Enter and define dependencies between a project's tasks.
Identify the schedule's critical path and improve it.
Assign resources to the project's tasks and optimize by sliding or leveling.
Declare the project's progress and create the project's indicators of progress.
Define and track the project's financial data.
1) Preparing the work environment.
2) Scheduling and structuring the project
3) Optimizing the schedule
4) Allocating resources
5) Budgeting
6) Baseline
7) Monitoring the project
8) Multiproject work
1) Preparing the work environment.
- The Ribbon. Current views.
- Instituting the project calendar.
- Connecting with WBS.
Workshop
Browsing within MS Project. Configuring your environment. Initializing the project.
2) Scheduling and structuring the project
- Manual and automatic scheduling modes.
- Identifying the activities. Structuring the project.
- Analyzing the critical path and margins.
- Setting constraints in the schedule.
Workshop
Inputting dependencies. The different tables. Constraints.
3) Optimizing the schedule
- Pausing an activity. Disabling a task.
- Optimization method. Splitting tasks.
Workshop
Optimizing timeframes and relationships between tasks. Splitting tasks.
4) Allocating resources
- Understanding the Work/Duration/Capacity relationship
- Types of resources, assignment modes.
- Estimating durations. Calculating the critical path.
Workshop
Inputting and assigning resources. Managing the calendar and capability of a resource.
5) Budgeting
- Incorporating forecast costs into the budget.
- Managing the cost of resources.
- Multiple-cost resources.
- Managing changes in a resource's cost.
Workshop
Entering expenses. Viewing the resource costs
6) Baseline
- Creating a cost/time baseline (performance).
- Incorporating subcontractor schedules.
- Adding post-scheduling tasks.
Workshop
Creating and updating a baseline
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7) Monitoring the project
- Using the report center.
- Designing progress dashboards.
- Exporting data to Excel, Access, and Visio.
- Monitoring by charges and by deadlines.
- Monitoring by what's left and what's been used.
- Rescheduling uncompleted work.
Workshop
Declaring progress. Monitoring by charges and by deadlines. Rescheduling activities
8) Multiproject work
- Integrating a subproject. Consolidating multiple projects.
- Creating links between projects.
- Sharing resources Resource pool.
Workshop
Multiproject work.
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