Managing Projects from Foundation to Enterprise
using Microsoft Project Server 2003

PMPs Earn 214 PDUs

On-site Only: Not Available for Open-enrollment

Syllabus in PDF Format

Customer Testimonials

I wanted to thank you for the 3 day class in Indy this week. I found it very informative and useful. Although our projects seem large to us, it was very refreshing to hear things from your much broader perspective.
I hope our paths cross again, Dan O’Connor, Teachers Credit Union

Course Overview

This accelerated three-day course covers Microsoft Office Project 2003 basics, as well as how to use Microsoft Office Project 2003 with Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 to manage enterprise projects. Normally a four-day learning track, our condensed course teaches you how to use Microsoft Project Professional and Microsoft Project Server through each stage of the project management life cycle.

Target Audience

This course is a must for anyone who serves as a project manager or a portfolio manager in an enterprise project management environment. This three-day course is in lieu of taking both the Establishing a Project Management Foundation and Managing Enterprise Projects using Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 two-day courses.

Pre-Requisites

Although not required, it is helpful for students to have hands-on project management experience and knowledge of project management principles.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the stages of the project management process
• Describe the project communication life cycle used with Project Server
• Understand the Microsoft Project user interface
• Understand the Microsoft Project Data Model as it relates to Views, Tables, Filters, and Groups
• Define and save a new enterprise project, open an enterprise project, and work with offline projects
• Perform basic task planning and understand how to properly use task dependencies and task constraints
• Add resources to a project team, assign resources to tasks, and level overallocated resources
• Save a baseline for a project
• Publish projects and task assignments
• Understand and use the Project Web Access user interface
• Track and update project progress
• Use Outlook to track task progress
• Analyze project variance
• Set up e-mail notifications and reminders from Project Server
• Manage risks, issues, and documents associated with a project
• Create and manage Status Reports
• Access resource information and project portfolio information through Project Web Access
• Perform portfolio analysis using the Portfolio Analyzer and the Portfolio Modeler