Establishing a Project Management Foundation
using Microsoft Office Project 2007
PMPs Earn 14 PDUs
Customer Testimonials
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Course Overview
This course delivers the fundamental scheduling skills that you need to manage
projects successfully with Microsoft Office Project 2007, and prepares you for
the Managing Enterprise Projects using Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
course. Mastering the Microsoft Project scheduling engine is the key to
enjoying your work with the software. This course shows you how to drive the
tool through each stage of the project management life cycle and offers multiple
best practices for using the software while defining, planning, executing, and
closing a project. This course also teaches you how to use all of the new features
included in the software. Framed around PMI’s project life cycle,
the course content is methodology-agnostic and focuses on hands-on learning methods
Target Audience
Everyone who manages projects using Microsoft Office Project 2007 should take this
course, whether in an enterprise or desktop-only environment. We target this course
at the needs of full-time project managers, as well as those who function as project
schedulers or project support technicians.
Pre-Requisites
Although not required, it is helpful for students to have hands-on project management
experience or a high-level understanding of project management principles.
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the stages of the project management process.
- Understand the Microsoft Project user interface.
- Understand the Microsoft Project Data Model as it relates to Views, Tables, Filters, and Groups.
- Define a new project.
- Perform all required task planning
- Properly use task dependencies and task constraints.
- Add resources to a project and assign resources to tasks.
- Save a baseline for a project.
- Enter task progress using three different methods of tracking progress.
- Analyze project variance.
- Create custom Views, Tables, Filters, and Groups.
- Revise a project based on project variance.
- Change a project based on change control methodologies and rebaseline the project using multiple methods.
- Report on project progress by printing Views and Reports, and by using Visual Reports with Microsoft Office Excel and Visio.
- Close a project.