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In this self-paced series, you will learn project management fundamentals and how to use Microsoft Project 2010 project management software to become a more efficient and successful project manager.

You will learn to initialize a project and build a schedule with Microsoft Project 2010, and you will learn to create resources and manage resource assignments. You will also learn to use Microsoft Project 2010 to monitor schedule performance and communicate project information.

What You'll Learn

• Project management fundamentals and the Project 2010 interface
• Setting up a new project from a template and using project calendars
• Defining a new project's properties and entering and editing tasks within Microsoft Project 2010
• Applying constraints and deadlines to your project tasks to keep them on schedule
• Sorting and organizing items in a resource sheet and configuring resource information
• Effort-driven scheduling and how Project 2010 uses resource assignment information to perform scheduling calculations
• Assigning various types of resources to tasks in your project and modifying cost rate tables for your resources
• Updating project progress at the task level
• Setting and maintaining project baselines
• Adding graphics to reports
• Reporting options in Project 2010

Who Needs to Attend

Individuals who are involved in managing projects and who have basic computer literacy

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Course Outline

1. Introduction to Project Management using Project 2010

• Examples and characteristics of a project
• Project management responsibilities
• Benefits of using project management software
• Characteristics of the project lifecycle
• Project management processes

2. Introduction to Project 2010

• Elements of the Project 2010 interface
• Project 2010 views
• Customize the Quick Access Toolbar
• Commands on the Ribbon for performing various functions in Project 2010
• Open, save, and close a Project 2010 file
• Commands in the Project 2010 Backstage view
• Start up Project 2010 and check resource information in a project file
• Ribbon and Backstage tabs commands and tools

3. Initializing a Project with Project 2010

• Setting up a new project in Project 2010
• Create a project using a new blank project file, existing project plan, template, SharePoint task list, and task list in Excel workbook
• Create exceptions in a project calendar, resource calendar, task calendar
• Create a new project
• Create a project calendar given a scenario

4. Defining Project Properties in Project 2010

• Defining a new project in Project 2010
• Project Options dialog
• Name and save a new project file in Project 2010
• Appropriately named project files
• Alternative file types available in Project 2010
• Apply project-specific properties and settings to a project file
• Save the project with an appropriate filename

5. Building a Schedule with Project 2010

• Add tasks to a project plan
• Determine whether given tasks should be automatically or manually scheduled in Project 2010
• Using summary tasks and milestones and different types of task dependencies
• Manage dependencies between tasks
• Apply a constraint to a given task in Project 2010
• Perform scheduling tasks in Project 2010

6. Creating Resources in Project 2010

• Resource types
• Create a resource pool for a project and enter work resources in Project 2010
• Configure resource availability in Project 2010
• Enter material and cost resources in Project 2010

7. Managing Resource Assignments with Project 2010

• How assigning additional resources to a task affects scheduling
• Scheduling formula
• How task types affect a project when resource assignments are updated
• Use the task entry table and assign resources dialog box for resource assignments
• Assigning a material resource to a task
• Change the cost rate table used for a resource assignment
• Perform resource assignments given a scenario

8. Monitoring Schedule Performance with Project 2010

• Set and maintain project baselines
• Update a project schedule with actual duration values
• Scheduling terminology used in Project 2010
• Interpret the results of an in-progress schedule check
• Reschedule work that is not yet started using Project 2010
• Split a task in a Project 2010 schedule
• Set and update a project baseline and update a project schedule
• Set a new start date for work that is not yet started

9. Communicating Project Information with Project 2010

• Print a project report
• Apply text formatting options to a report and add graphics to a project
• Use the Timeline as a reporting tool in Project 2010
• Create and format a customized standard report and use the Timeline view to create a project report
• Create a customized report with graphics using the Gantt Chart view