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Project managers everywhere rely on Microsoft Project to plan and manage their projects. With Microsoft Project, efficiently organize and track tasks and resources to keep your projects on time and within budget.

Our trainers and consultants deliver generic or customized Microsoft Project courses at your location, either in a classroom or at your employee's desk.

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The topics below are guidelines to the course structures. After speaking with you we will tailor course content to suit your specific needs and arrange course delivery at a time convenient to you.

- Introduction to Project Management
- Fundamental MS Project Topics
- Intermediate MS Project Topics
- Advanced MS Project Topics

Introduction to Project Management

	Project management terminology
	Components of projects and programs
	Defining project stakeholders
	Critical project variables (scope, budget, timeframe, resources)
	Key project phases
	Scope document, project constraints and the priority matrix
	The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
	Using a Gantt chart, tasks, dependencies and lag/lead time
	Assigning project resources
	Contingency planning
	The Critical Path method
	Defining the baseline
	Tracking project information, issues list and action list.

Fundamental MS Project Topics

	MS Project Overview
	Creating new projects
	Global project settings and properties
	Navigating the Gantt chart
	Choosing views and tables
	Adding, editing, configuring and deleting tasks
	Advanced task features
	Creating and assigning resources
	Displaying resource allocations
	Setting a baseline
	Tracking a project
	Updating tasks and projects
	Analyzing projects
	Using resource allocation and scheduling tools.

Intermediate MS Project Topics

	Customizing views, panes and tables
	Using filters and custom fields
	Editing tables and views
	Creating and editing standard and customized reports
	Using the Organizer
	Master projects and subprojects
	Sharing resources across projects
	Organizing multiple projects
	Tracking multiple projects
	Workgroup project management
	Sharing tasks in MS Outlook
	Introduction to Project Server
	Assigning tasks.

Advanced MS Project Topics

	Users and security
	Advanced view features
	Status reports
	Creating and editing custom fields
	Adding and configuring resources
	Managing and editing resource costs
	Advanced budgeting and tracking features
	Creating and editing custom forms
	Creating and editing custom reports
	Customizing Project Central Server
	Advanced Project Central features
	Implementing and administering Project Server.