About this Course

Learn how to Begin, Plan, Execute, Monitor & Control, and Close a project - all using the latest Microsoft Project 2013 software in our hands-on classroom training. Learn to plan various tasks involved, resources required to accomplish the tasks, and the overall cost in order to plan a project properly.

Microsoft® Office Project Professional 2013 has an extensive range of easy to use shortcuts, tips and tricks, that will enable you to use it as a tool that assists in managing your projects effectively and efficiently.

In this Microsoft Project 2013 training course, you will create and modify a project plan, and begin to manage variances in a project, bringing the project to a success!

PLUS, you will learn completely NEW FEATURES introduced in Microsoft Project 2013!

You will create and manage a project schedule using Microsoft® Project 2013. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 

• identify the basic features and components of the Microsoft Project environment. 

• create a new project plan file and enter project information.

• manage tasks by organizing tasks and setting task relationships.

• manage resources for a project.

• finalize a project plan.

• exchange project plan data with other applications.

• update a project plan.

• manage project costs.

• report project data visually.

• reuse project plan information.

Course Outline

Day 1 of Microsoft Project 2013

• Lesson 1: Starting a Project
  
• Lesson 2: Working with Project Calendars
  
• Lesson 3: Working with Project Tasks
  
• Lesson 4: Working with Project Resources
  
• Lesson 5: Delivering a Project Plan
  

Day 2 of Microsoft Project 2013

• Lesson 6: Managing the Project Environment
  
• Lesson 7: Managing Task Structures
  
• Lesson 8: Generating Project Views
  
• Lesson 9: Producing Project Reports
  

Target Audience

This course is designed for project managers, team leads, who have a basic understanding of project management concepts, who is responsible for creating and modifying project plans, and who needs a tool to manage those project plans.

Format: Instructor led, highly interactive classroom setting with many practical exercises to do and learn from in this session.

Each student will be provided with a Laptop to use in the training room, to do the exercises. You can bring in your laptop notebook for your use in the class. It must be pre-installed with Microsoft Project 2013 software for your use.

Pre-Requisites

Students enrolling in this class should have the following:

• A general introductory-level understanding of project management concepts. 
  
• Basic end-user skills with any current Windows operating system.
  

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