This course covers the advanced knowledge and skills a project manager needs to update a project plan in Project during the execution, monitoring, and controlling phases of a project. In other words, once your project plan is approved by the project sponsor, this course will enable you to manage the project so that it is completed on time, within budget, and according to scope.
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for a person with an understanding of project management concepts and who is responsible for creating and maintaining project plans. Target students will be looking to acquire the advanced knowledge and skills needed to update a project plan in Microsoft Project during the execution, monitoring, and controlling phases of a project.
Prerequisites
To ensure your success in this course, you should have basic project management knowledge and skills. Additionally, you should be able to create a new project plan, manage time in a project plan, manage tasks in a project plan, manage resources in a project plan, and share a project plan using Microsoft Project (CODE:42100GEB)
What You'll Learn
In this course, you will maintain project plans during the execution, monitoring, and controlling phases of a project. You will:
- Update a project plan.
- Generate project views to manage a project.
- Create project reports to share a project’s status.
- Reuse project plan information.
- Work with multiple projects.
Course Outline
1. Updating a Project Plan
2. Enter Task Progress
3. Enter Overtime Work
4. Edit Tasks
5. Update Cost Rate Tables
6. Update a Baseline
7. Viewing Project Progress
8. Use View Commands
9. Add a Custom Field
10.Create Custom Views
11.Format and Share the Timeline View
12.Reporting on Project Progress
13.View Built-in Reports
14.Create Custom Reports
15.Create a Visual Report
16.Reusing Project Plan Information
17.Create a Project Plan Template
18.Share Project Plan Elements with Other Plans
19.Working with Multiple Projects
20.Share Resources
21.Link Project Plans
