MS Project – Intermediate

In the Microsoft Project Introduction course, delegates used project management skills to create a project plan. This course will build upon that knowledge and give you the opportunity to work with a project plan once it has entered the project implementation phase.

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Course Code
PM007

What's covered?

  • Create a Project Plan Template
  • Create a Custom Combination View
  • Make Custom Views Available to Other Project Plans
  • Share Resources
  • Create a Master Project Plan

Who should participate?

Delegates will get the most out of this course if they want to learn how to apply Microsoft Office Project Professional during the implementation phase of a project. Delegates should ideally have come through the Introduction Course or be familiar with how to set up a Microsoft Project.

What will I learn?

Participants achieve the following learning outcomes from the programme;

  • Sort and find tasks and resources
  • Apply task and resource tables
  • Customise tables and fields
  • Develop ‘Traffic Light/RAG’ reports in the Gantt Chart
  • Set task and resource filters
  • Work with resource scheduling – shortening/changing the schedule
  • Understand the work formula, effort driven scheduling
  • Find over-allocated resources and how to resolve
  • Resolve conflicts – working with slack time
  • Use MS Project resource levelling
  • Assign resource rate changes and costs, fixed costs
  • Save with a baseline
  • Change the schedule – viewing project statistics
  • Track progress
  • Update tasks / project manually and ‘as scheduled’
  • Track actual cost and actual work

Who are the tutors?

Liam Dillon

Liam Dillon specialises in Project Management and Program Management. Liam holds a Master of Science degree in Project Management and is one of the few practitioners to hold multiple project and program management accreditations (PMP®, PMI-ACP®, PMI-RMP®, PMI-SP® and PgMP®) from the Project Management Institute (PMI®). Liam has over 23 years’ professional experience. During that time, he has led some significant global IT and Infrastructure projects and programs for various industries.

Coupled with his industrial experience, Liam spends time training and coaching project managers in USA, Middle-East, Asia and Europe on the topic of project and program management. Liam has served as the President of the Ireland Chapter of PMI and has served as the Chairperson of PMI’s Global Board Volunteer Advisory Group. He has presented both at national and international conferences of the topic of project, program and portfolio management.


Louise Church

Louise Church is a Business and IT Consultant based in Dublin. Her main areas of expertise are in the areas of Business Development, IT Training Strategies and the development of IT Training Solutions for business.

Louise began her career in the technical department of UCD Computer Services. In 1980 she moved to Eukon Associates, a Dublin based Management & IT Consulting firm. In 1985 she co-founded OLAS a software training and development company. In Olas, Louise was responsible for the IT Training Division and acted as Sales and Marketing Director for the business.

OLAS grew to be one of the largest IT training & software development companies in Ireland, providing bespoke software development, eLearning solutions and training programmes to a wide range of customers including Government departments and large multinationals. In 2000, Olas were appointed as the SAP training centre for Ireland delivering SAP training to SAP’s international and local customers.

Louise has wide experience in the design and development of IT training solutions, training delivery and in the management of large training projects. She has also developed a number of elearning solutions for clients.


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