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Ms. Project

Description

Microsoft Project is a project management software program designed to assist managers so they can achieve a successful outcome and the benefits of Project software grow with each new edition. Microsoft Project training from New Horizons will help you stay abreast of the latest changes, whether it be for personal use, or to train your employees for an upgrade in your organization. Microsoft Project training from New Horizons can help project managers assign resources to tasks, track progress, manage a budget and analyze workloads.

With Microsoft Project, managers are easily able to analyze resources, check budgets, evaluate timelines, measure progress, and anticipate resource needs. In addition to assisting project managers, Microsoft Project also enables team members to manage tasks, collaborate, submit time sheets, and flag issues and risks. Moreover, it helps executives to define business drivers, measure strategic impact of competing ideas, make funding decisions, and view project and resources status.

Syllabus1

Introduction –

  • What is scheduling?
  • Introduction of MS Project
  • About the course
Getting Started with MS Project –
  • Interface tour
  • Navigating the backstage view
  • Menu bars
  • Starting MS Project
Set up a Project –
  • Create a new project
  • Define your project
  • Configure options
  • Set up the project calendar
  • • Using templates for productivity

Creating project task –

  • Create a new task
  • Create a milestone
  • Create summary task
  • Creating recurring task for meetings etc.
  • Organising tasks, linking tasks
  • Choosing between manual and automatic scheduling

Syllabus2

Entering resources –

  • Using the resource views
  • Creating a work resource
  • Creating a material resource, entering resource costs
  • Creating resource calendars
  • Organising resources
Assigning Tasks to resources –
  • Know what are tasks types
  • Using views to assign resources
  • Assigning resources to tasks
  • Review resource usages
  • Using team planner view to review resources
Working with MS Project Views and other objects –
  • Understanding MS Project objects
  • Switching between views and tables
  • Using columns in a table, using sorting, grouping and filtering
  • Using the timeline view

Refining and tuning the project schedule –

  • Analyse using the critical path
  • Resolve resources over- allocations
  • Inspect scope time cost

Syllabus3

Presenting the schedule –

  • Summarise the project
  • Ways to present schedule to stake holders
Understanding how baseline works –
  • Base lining the schedule
Tracking and Reporting projects –
  • Updating the schedule
  • Updating the cost
  • How to change the baseline
  • Viewing project status
  • Producing reports
  • Using project views for progress reporting
Getting better at using MS Project –
  • Using a global templates
  • Exporting and importing objects
  • Sharing knowledge and information

Job Opportunities

  • Designers
  • Architects
  • Engineers
  • Civil Engineers
  • Drafters
  • Architects
  • Contractors
  • Building Managers
  • Electrical Controls & System Designers
  • 2D Artist
  • Document Creators
  • Game Developers
  • Graphic Designers
  • 3D Animators
  • Product Manufactures
  • Inventors
  • Prototype Designers
  • 3D Animators
  • Effects Specialist
  • Game Designers
  • Construction Managers
  • Structural Engineers
  • Building Information Modelers
  • Construction PMs
  • Interior Designer
  • Construction Development
  • Building Designer

Benefits

1. Always stay in control. Know and communicate project status accurately on demand. Never lose focus on the critical path and maintain awareness potential of conflicts via traffic light implementation and early warning indicators.
2. Run what-if scenarios quickly to assess impacts of various alternatives.
3. Ease of integration with other tools helps communicate with diverse stakeholders easily.
4. More time to focus on business, environment and value additions
5. Consistent one-truth reporting at required granularity at all levels right from senior management and external stakeholders to team members
6. Optimise resource utilization across projects in the organization using shared resource pool and effective use of different calendars.


MS-Project is very user-friendly and easy to learn. It has a very intuitive experience driven UI and anyone with a bit of project management experience will get the confidence to use the tool effectively with a mere 16hours of systematic training such as the one provided by CAD CAM Experts. As it is a widely used tool, there is a lot of online content and help available for Microsoft Project. Users of MS-Project can keep themselves updated and exploit the features provided by latest MS-Project version to the fullest using such online resources.
We would strongly recommend you to gain proficiency in MS-Project if you are seriously thinking about building your career as a Project, Program or Portfolio Manager.




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