Microsoft Project is the most versatile and simple project scheduling tool available.  The tool is used to assist any of the project stakeholders, to design, agree and baseline any project execution schedule. 

 

The purpose of using the schedule is to deliver the project through updating the progress and forecasting the remaining work. 

 

Through analysis and interpretation of the updated schedule, corrective actions can be identified and re-planned to ensure objectives and outcomes of the project are achieved.

Some of the Assessment Areas Covered:

• Principles of planning
• WBS principles and use and backbone of the schedule
• Sticky plan development
• Function of MSP, tasks dates start and finish, setting up fixed duration etc
• Components of a task, name duration resources etc
• Gantt charts
• Linking
• Baseline 
• Critical tasks and float

• Critical chain
• Update
• Update Rescheduling  
• S-Curves
• Interaction with Excel
• Costs and Budget

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Prerequisite: A knowledge of Windows™

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Course Length: 3 days