Credo Systemz MS Project course in Chennai aims at providing a well structured curriculum from scratch. This MS Project course covers the necessary modules hand picked by our industrial experts. Our MS Project Training course content suits both freshers and experienced professionals.
Learning Objective: In this Chapter, you will be introduced to MS Project Interface, Menu and its tool bars.
Topics:
Explore the Project user interface
Manage files and set options in the Backstage view
Exploring Ribbon Menu and tool bars
Customizing Quick Access tool bar Hands-on Practicals:
Tool Navigation in tabs such as Task, Resource, Report, View and Format
Adding and removing items in ribbon menu and quick access tool bar
Set properties for project in the options tab.
Learning Objective: In this Chapter, you will know how to create tasks, types and its relationship in MS Project
Topics:
Create tasks
Enter task durations and dates
Enter milestone tasks
Create summary tasks to outline the plan
Link tasks to create dependencies
Effort driven task
Switch task scheduling from manual to automatic Hands-on Practicals:
Creating task in detail for the project and define duration as per estimate or plan.
Create appropriate type of task such as milestone, task, recurring task and summary task
Set relationship for the task as per dependencies
Chapter 7: Formatting and sharing a plan
Learning Objective: In this Chapter, you will understand how to use Gantt Chart view, Timeline view and report overview in MS Project.
Topics
Customize a Gantt chart view
Add tasks to a Timeline view
Customize reports
Copy views and reports
Print views and reports Hands-on Practicals:
Understanding and viewing the plan in different views Such as Gantt and timeline view
Practicing on viewing plan reports
Chapter 8: Remove over-allocation and Set baseline
Learning Objective: In this Chapter, you will understand how to remove over allocation and set baseline in MS Project.
Topics
Resolve resource over allocations manually
Examine resource allocations over time in plan
Use Resource Leveling Option
Creating baseline and set baseline to total project
Hands-on Practicals:
Practice solving the over allocation denoted as indicator column. It can be done manual as well as from Leveling.
Set baseline to the project and view it in the Tracking Gantt
Chapter 9: Tracking progress of Project
Learning Objective: In this Chapter, you will understand how to track the project progress in MS Project.
Topics
Understand progress tracking
Save a baseline of your plan
Track a plan as scheduled
Enter a task’s completion percentage
Enter actual values for tasks
Update a baseline
Using RAG status indicator
Track actual and remaining work for tasks and assignments Hands-on Practicals:
Updating the project progress using task details form, update task and mark on track options.
Viewing execution and update progress through Tracking Gantt against baseline
Use the tables or create new tables to view the progress effectively
Practice to display the status using RAG status indicator or status custom field
Chapter 10: Fine-tuning
Learning Objective: In this Chapter, you will learn how to do the corrective actions when project needs tuning in Schedule and cost.
Topics
Adjust task link relationships
Control task scheduling by using constraints
Adjust working time for individual tasks
Control task scheduling by using task types
Enter deadline dates
Create and assign material resources If any needed
Examine resource allocations over time
Resolve resource over allocations manually
Hands-on Practicals:
Practice on adjust resource allocation, task relationship and deadlines etc. as corrective action based on progress not as per expectation in schedule and cost.
Chapter 11: View and report project status
Learning Objective: In this Chapter, you will learn how to do the report of project status in MS Project.
Topics
Examine a plan’s variance
Identify tasks that have slipped
Examine task costs
Examine resource costs
Hands-on Practicals:
Creating reports to show the project progress in cost and its variance.
Chapter 12: Macro
Learning Objective: In this Chapter, you will practice to use Macro for the repeated activities in project using MS Project.
Topics
Create simple macro using record and play back
Modify the Macro file
Macro Execution for the repeated activities
Hands-on Practicals:
Practice on creating macro and managing it for few project scenario’s on generating daily and weekly reports.
Chapter 13: Import / Export & Sub Project
Learning Objective: In this Chapter, you will practice to use Import/ Export and Sub Project Option in MS Project
Topics
Importing and Exporting projects
Using Sub Project Option for opening multiple projects
Link between projects
Hands-on Practicals:
Hands-on to import and export the project
Task link between projects will be practiced
Opening multiple projects in Sub project view
