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PM Using MS Project 2007 (Earn 16 PDUs)
July 25 - 26, 2008 @ Bangalore, INDIA
August 22 - 23, 2008 @ Bangalore, INDIA
September 19 - 20, 2008 @ Bangalore, INDIA
This course provides a structured approach towards Project Management Discipline using the industry leading Project Management Tool Microsoft Project Management 2007. The key advantage of this course is that the learners are able to practice the key concepts of project management in hands on practice environment that provides a long term retainership of the key learnings.
- Get familiar with the standards & practices being followed in managing projects.
- Learn features of MS project 2007 and have a total confidence of managing projects through the phases of initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing by using MS project 2007
- Introduction to Project Management
- Overview of Project Management
- Task or Activity breakdown (WBS) and Scheduling Theory
- Project Initiation in Microsoft Project 2007
- The Project 2007 Environment and clarity on MS Project family
- Using the Main Menu, Default view
- Using Task Panes
- Using the Getting Started Pane
- Using the New Project Pane
- Using the Search Results Pane
- Using the Project Help Pane
- Using Microsoft Project Help
- Accessing the Office Assistant
- Using the Toolbars
- Using Toolbars
- Using the Standard Toolbar
- Using the Formatting Toolbar
- Using the Project Guide
- Creating a new project
- Utilizing File Properties
- Inputting Start and Finish Dates
- Setting up a Project Calendar
- Making a New Calendar
- Changing Calendar Options
- Creating Tasks and Task Management
- Entering Tasks and Subtasks
- Entering Task Durations, Task Notes
- Adding Constraints Using Deadlines
- Editing AND Deleting Tasks
- Moving Tasks – Indent and Outdent
- Establishing Dependencies
- Using Finish-to-Start (FS) Dependencies
- Using Start-to-Finish (SF) Dependencies
- Using Start-to-Start (SS) Dependencies
- Using Finish-to-Finish (FF) Dependencies
- Assigning Milestones
- Listing Resources and Task Allocation
- Creating Resources
- Entering Type, Group, Code
- Setting Resource Calendar and time
- Setting Resource Costs and Notes
- Assigning Resources to Tasks
- Resource Assignment to tasks
- Resource load analysis
- Creating Resources
- Project Plan Formatting
- USING THE Gantt chart VIEW – Default View
- Using other views
- The Calendar View
- Using the Network Diagram View
- Using the Task Usage View
- Using the Resource Graph View
- Using the Resource Sheet View
- Formatting
- Using Sort
- Using Custom and advanced filter
- Group by
- Project Costs
- Viewing Project Statistics
- Project Tracking and monitoring
- Critical Path analysis
- Setting baseline
- Adding columns to workspace – to view baseline values
- Updating with actual results
- Actual to Baseline comparison
- Using the Tracking Gantt View
- Using Gantt Chart Wizard
- Reporting Options
- Printing the project plan
- Page setup and formatting
- Using Standard reports
- Using Overview Reports
- Using Current Activity Reports
- Using Cost Reports
- Using Assignments Reports
- Using Workload Reports
- Creating Custom Reports
- Extra Features
- Task and Task Relationships
- Entering Recurring Tasks
- Hard and Soft constraints – overruling the constraint
- Review duration types
- Setting task types
- Task Dependencies (Relations)
- Lead and Lag
- Splitting Tasks
- Task and Task Relationships
- Coordinating multiple projects
- Consolidating Projects
- Setting up to use consolidation
- Inserting multiple projects into a Master project
- Using inserted projects and there source files
- Linking
- Read-only
- Understanding consolidated projects and there dependencies
- Linking tasks across projects
- Viewing multiple projects and Critical Path across projects
- Sharing resources among projects
- Consolidating Projects
Benefits/Takeaways / Workshop Motivation
- Confidence of using MS Project 2007 in every day projects.
- Understanding and usage of various task, resource and assignment parameters in MS Projects
- Learn how to efficiently communicate the project information to stakeholders who do not have MS Project installed at their computers.
- Practical Understanding of Critical Path and WBS.
- Understand how to generate total cost of the project by using MSP2007
- And many more practical tips to keep you ahead of the curve…
Project Managers, Project Leads, Team Leads, Senior Programmers and all those who want to improve their project management skills.
Pre-requisite – At least 2 years experience in the IT industry.
Online and interactive sessions driven by a case study.
Prabha Mudda, has 13+ years of diversified experience in Project Management, Project sizing, Process Consulting, Business analysis, Re-engineering and development implementation, and Academics in organizations such as Wipro Technologies, Planetasia (Microland Group) and Raffles Software.
She has been involved in all areas of the software development life cycle adhering to quality standards. She has the expertise in managing projects in the distributed technologies specific to the Internet space. Her communication and negotiation skills have helped her in efficiently managing multiple teams across different projects. she has handled development, migration, maintenance and enhancement projects. She has extensively worked on applications in Finance (securities), Jobs, e-governance and technologies like component development, framework support, and Data mining.
As a Consultant, she has closely worked with Wipro, IBM, and Robert Bosch since Feb, 2005 handling trainings on Life Cycle Models, Configuration Management, Testing, Quality, MS-Project, Software Metrics and Estimation Techniques etc.
She has also trained professionals at the following organizations:
- I2 Technologies
- ITC–Infotech
- L&T
- ADS
- Capco
- Accenture
- SLK software
- Alcatel Load Controls
In addition to project assignments, she has been responsible for conducting the following assessment studies / pre–sales visit to client locations:
- Charles Schwab– Strategic consulting, project assessment
- Bowstreet Inc–Project Initiation and study
- Metlife Inc– Assessment for proposing