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MS Project – Introduction

This course is designed for individuals who want to use Microsoft Office Project Professional. The topics in this course cover the critical skills necessary to create and modify a project plan file that contains tasks, resources, and resource assignments.

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Course Code
PM008

Duration
1 training day

What's covered?

  • Description of Project Views, applying Views
  • Using Dual Pane Views for Project Management
  • Applying Filters to Views
  • Formatting Text and Views, use of Gantt Chart Wizard
  • Print Set-up, printing Views
  • Printing Calendars and Project Reports

Who should participate?

Delegates will get the most out of this course if they want to learn how to use Microsoft Office Project Professional to assist them with project management. Delegates should be familiar with terms such as Gantt Chart, task, critical path, and resource. Delegates should also be familiar with terms such as computer memory, data files, and program files. No knowledge of Microsoft Project is assumed.

What will I learn?

Participants achieve the following learning outcomes from the programme;

  • Understand the concepts of project scheduling and management, the project lifecycle, triple constraints and explanation of terms
  • Understand MS Project screen and default view (Gantt Chart)
  • Create a project – specifying ‘Schedule From’ date, entering tasks, recurring tasks and milestones
  • Define task relationships, specifying lead and lag time
  • Save a project – definition of the project baseline
  • Navigate through a project – editing tasks using task information, entering constraints, assigning notes, attaching documents and drawings to Tasks
  • Understand the concept and development of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Create summary tasks – outlining the project based on a WBS
  • Create resource sheets, assigning resources: - use of standard and resource calendars, creating new/group calendars

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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