Course Description

A perfect workshop for existing and aspiring project managers, our Microsoft Project 2016 course will help participants get hands on familiarity with Project 2016. Learn from experts about handling the interface and how to start a new plan, build, organize, and link task, assign resources, create basic reports, and create projects independently. The 2016 version of MS Project comes with a host of improvements and innovations that make it an even more productive tool in enhancing the user’s abilities to manage projects. This boot camp like session is a perfect way to master project management best practices while also learning the ropes of leveraging this tool for project success.

Our workshop follows an experiential learning format wherein participants will have the opportunity to try first-hand the applications of MS Project 2016, explore the tool and clear their doubts from our certified instructors. Our detailed yet crisp courseware is designed to give you maximum recap of all that you learned in the workshop.

On successful completion of the course, you will receive a Course Completion Certificate from KnowledgeHut with Credits (1 credit per hour of training).

Objectives

This course will teach you to create and engage in basic management of a project using Microsoft Project Professional 2016. You will learn:

• About the new tools and features of this latest edition of MS Project
• How to create and manage a project with Microsoft Project 2016
• Project Management Concepts
• Microsoft Project 2016 user interface
• How to start a new plan, build task lists, and assign resources
• Stay on project schedule by mastering the use of project calendar
• How project progress and plans can be shared among resources
• To use views and reports to visualize and track project schedules

You will also get:

• 2 day workshop led by experienced and qualified instructors
• Hands on learning with the MS Project 2016 tool
• 45 PDUs on completion of two days training and e-learning
• Downloadable courseware
• Course completion certificate

Audience

Prerequisites

Content

Components of a Project

• Project Components
• Identify Project Management Concepts

Getting around Microsoft Project 2016

• Starting Project
• The Ribbon
  • Tabs
  • Groups
  • Commands
  • Hiding the Ribbon
• The Backstage View
  • Save, Save as, Open, Close
  • Info
  • Recent
  • New
  • Print
  • Save & Send
  • Help
  • Options
  • Exit
• The Quick Access Toolbar
  • Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
• Basic Formatting
  • Clipboard Group

Calendars

• Project Calendar Start Date
  • Setting Project to Auto Schedule New Tasks
  • Setting the Start Date
• Creating a Project Calendar
  • Custom Project Calendars
  • Connecting a Calendar to a Project

Creating and organizing Tasks

• Creating a Task
• Entering Durations
• Scheduling Tasks
• Milestone Tasks
• Linking Tasks
• Adding Notes to Tasks

Managing Project Plan resources

• The Resource Sheet
  • Entering Work Resources
  • Entering Material Resources
  • Entering Cost Resources
• Assigning Resources to Tasks

Managing a Project

• Viewing a Project
• Reviewing and Making Adjustments to a Project
  • The Project Timeline
  • The Project Calendar
  • Adjusting Tasks