Microsoft Project Introduction

This Microsoft Project training course manual is designed to show students how to use Microsoft Project to effectively manage projects. The course manual covers the critical knowledge and skills a project manager, or other individual tasked with managing projects, needs to create a project plan with Microsoft Project and shows students how to utilize Microsoft Project to oversee the planning, execution, monitoring, and controlling phases of their projects. This course manual will enable students to utilize Microsoft Project to manage projects so that they are completed on time, within budget, and according to scope.

Readers will learn how Microsoft Project calculates their project schedule using a project start or end date, task relationships, resource availability and project calendars. Students will also see how to use various views in Microsoft Project, including the Gantt chart view, to analyze the project progress. This course manual also shows students how to share the project plan with others who may not have Microsoft Project installed and how to create a Project template to speed the creation of future projects.

This manual helps students to be able to:

Identify project management concepts and navigate the Microsoft Project environment
Create and define a new project plan
Create and organize tasks
Manage resources in a project plan
Finalize a project plan
Update a project plan to reflect progress as you execute the project
Monitor project progress in the project plan
Adjust the project plan to control constraints
Create project reports to share a project’s status
Customize project settings and share customizations with other projects

Exercise files for the course can be obtained by emailing info@skillforge.com