Microsoft Project: A Practical Tutorial

Learn how to customize Microsoft Project

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Last Updated: 2023-05-24 06:05:56 English Course Type: Self Learning

By the end of this course, you will have gained basic skills in the most important aspects of building a schedule and how MS Project works

The purpose of this course is teaching the basics of building a robust and customized project schedule in Microsoft project. By learning how to build a customized schedule, the student is better able to meet and adjust for client and team needs instead of using pre-made templates that become difficult to adjust and customize. This tutorial is practical and allows the students to follow along with the tutorial guide while gaining real world advice from a project management professional in how to make Microsoft Project into a functioning, useful tool. Some of the skills that the student will learn includes building customized tables, views, and filters. Additionally, Students will learn about how to build in resources and cost rates, build in tasks, and to customize the tools functions to make it more user friendly and make the ability to build out schedules easier. Students will be able to come away from this course more capable of creating customized projects that can be used on various projects and meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders. These obtains skills will assist the student in furthering their career as project managers/professionals but can also translate those skills to other scheduling software in the future.

This course covers the basics of how to build a schedule in MS Project from Scratch including creating calendars, adding resources and more

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Section 1 : Microsoft Project: A Practical Tutorial 13 Lectures 04:47:19
Lecture 1 :
Introduction and Course Expectations Preview
Lecture 2 :
Setting up the Schedule (Autoscheduling and Schedule View)
Lecture 3 :
Building in Holiday Calendar and Columns
Lecture 4 :
Building In Resources
Lecture 5 :
Custom Work Breakdown Structure
Lecture 6 :
Building Custom Views
Lecture 7 :
Building out Tasks
Lecture 8 :
Work Breakdown Structure Mapping
Lecture 9 :
Adding Schedule Logic and Durations
Lecture 10 :
Assigning Resources to Tasks
Lecture 11 :
Final Schedule Checks
Lecture 12 :
Baseline the Schedule
Lecture 13 :
Schedule Status Updates and Reporting

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I am a PMI Certified professional in Project Management. I am experienced with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) and Project Management. I currently work in project management as a Senior Earned Value Analyst where I advise both Project Manager Counterparts, Clients and Stakeholders on various knowledge areas of Project Management to assist and implement best practices and strategies in achieving the project/program goals.