Description

This course will introduce you to all the features of Microsoft Project 2013. Using a real case, it will show you how to implement them. At the end of the internship, you will have acquired mastery of MS-Project 2013 and will be able to use it to manage and optimize your projects.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

Project manager, department manager, project engineer, planner, project management team member.

Prerequisites

Training objectives

Organize the work environment with MS-Project

Capture and define the dependency links between the tasks of a project

Identify the critical path of the schedule and improve it

Declare the progress of the project and construct the indicators project progress

Define and monitor project financial data

Training program

• Multi-project work
  • Integrate a sub-project.
  • Consolidate several projects.
  • Establish links between projects.
  • Resource sharing.
  • Resource pool.
  • Practical work Working in multi-projects.
• Project management
  • Use the report center.
  • Design progress dashboards.
  • Export data to Excel, Access and Visio.
  • Followed by costs and deadlines.
  • Followed by what remains to be done and what is consumed.
  • Reschedule work not done.
  • Practical work Declare progress.
  • Monitoring by workloads and deadlines.
  • Replanning activities.
• Baseline planning
  • Establish a cost/deadline reference (performance).
  • Integrate subcontractor schedules.
  • Add task after planning.
  • Practical work Establish and update a reference plan.
• Budgeting
  • Incorporate forecasted expenses into the budget.
  • Manage the cost of resources.
  • Multiple-cost resources.
  • Manage the 'evolution of the cost of a resource.
  • Practical work Entering expenses.
  • Viewing the cost of resources.
• Resource allocation
  • Understanding the Work/Duration/Capacity relationship.
  • Types of resources, allocation methods.
  • Estimation of durations.
  • Calculation of the critical path.
  • Practical work Entry and allocation of resources.
  • Manage the schedule and capacity of a resource.
• Optimisation du planning
  • Pause an activity.
  • Disable a task.
  • Optimization method.
  • Splitting tasks.
  • Practical work Optimize deadlines and relationships between tasks.
  • Splitting.
• Project planning and structuring
  • Manual and automatic planning modes.
  • Identification of activities.
  • Project structuring.
  • Critical path analysis and margins.
  • Arrangement of constraints in the planning.
  • Practical work Understand the sequence logic.
  • The different tables.
  • Constraints.
• Preparing the work environment
  • The Ribbon.
  • Current views.
  • Set up the project schedule.
  • Make the link with the WBS.
  • Practical work Navigating in MS-Project.
  • Configure your environment.
  • Initialize the project.
• Resource allocation
  • rnResource typologies.
  • Resource allocation methods.
  • Understanding the Work/Duration/Capacity relationship.
  • Manual smoothing of resources.
  • Practical work rnEntry and allocation of resources.
  • Resource availability/task duration link.
  • Resource calendar.