Start from no knowledge and become a scheduling expert using Microsoft Project
What you’ll learn
- Become a Microsoft MS project scheduling EXPERT the easy way
- Learn the 6 Steps for a successful, accurate and beautiful schedule
- Master the art of simplifying your schedule to become more efficient
- Practice what you learn with a practical example
Requirements
- Preferably a large screen to ensure good visibility on software walkthrough (no mobile phones!)
- MS project for practice test (Optional)
- Adobe Acrobat (free to download) for resources
Who this course is for:
- Beginners who want to learn how to schedule with MS Project the proper way.
- Advanced who want to streamline their use of MS Project to be more efficient overall
Description
Updated Feb 2023: What’s new in latest MS Project 2021 updates + video on WBS
Updated Nov 2023: Made Cheat sheets and Assignments slides numbering clearer
Do you want to know how the professional project managers use MS project for scheduling?
Are you a beginner and want to learn to schedule with MS Project the way professionals do it without going through the soporific details of functions that are never used?
Hi all – In my 20 years as Project Manager I have successfully implemented projects for HP and IBM (amongst others) and if you follow this course you will know MS Project as much as I (and most Project Managers) do.
That’s all there is to it but it can be very powerful if used properly.
Overview
This course will show you how to create a schedule in Microsoft Project like pros do.
The course focuses on the most important functionality that is used in real life, on real projects. In my 20+ years as Project Manager I have only used the functions outlined in this course.
Project Managers simply do not have time to build complex projects schedules. Schedules need to be
- easy to maintain / fast to update
- easy to share / easy to understand
For this reason Project Managers only use a few (but powerful) components of the Microsoft Project / MS Project functionality.
This course focuses on what knowledge is required to build a solid and usable schedule. The type of schedule project managers needs, for him/her but also to present a clear timeline to peers and Management.
There are 3 main chapters to this course:
In the introduction, I walk you through the software.
- First very briefly then
- In more detail where I show you the main functionalities.
Part 1 will show you
- The main functionality
- How to build a schedule in 6 steps
- Practice activity for each concept.
In Part 2 we will
- Review some more advanced concepts.
- Do a practice activity for this Part.
Finally in the conclusion I will explain some other functionalities that are never used.
Have fun!
