◊ PROJECT 2007 ONLINE TRAINING SERIES
Online Project 2007 Training
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Project 2007 Series (16 hours)
ONLINE COURSE FEATURES
- Learn online with these interactive online elearning courses.
- Affordable Pricing (Only $99.95 for the complete series)
- A full year to complete the elearning courses
- Retake the elearning courses as many times as you like
- Measure your progress with assessment tests after each elearning course
- Earn completion certificates after passing each assessment test
1. Getting Started with Project 2007
Time: 2 hours
This course explains the fundamentals of tasks and how to customize them to effectively utilize Project 2007.
Objectives
- Discuss the basic concepts of project management such as setting a goal and planning, revising, and tracking a project
- Identify basic project management terminology
- Illustrate the process of setting up a new project in Project 2007
- Configure a calendar in Project 2007
- Add tasks to a project
- Explain how to operate the Project Guide
Topics
- Concepts of Project Management
- Project Management Terminology
- Introducing Project 2007
- Setting Calendar Options
- Working with Tasks
2. Building a Project
Time: 2 hours
This course explains the fundamentals of tasks and how to customize them to effectively utilize Project 2007.
Objectives
- Demonstrate the fundamental customization of tasks
- Explain how to establish task timings
- Describe the process of creating and customizing recurring tasks and notes
- Illustrate how to create and modify dependencies
- Identify the process of assigning task constraints
- Manage conflicts between constraints and dependencies
Topics
- Entering Tasks
- Establishing Timing
- Performing Other Task Operations
- Creating Dependencies
- Modifying Dependencies
- Establishing Task Constraints
3. Setting Up Resources and Establishing Costs
Time: 2 hours
This course explains how to use Project 2007 to assign people and materials as resources to project tasks, manage the work hours of those resources, and configure and monitor project costs.
Objectives
- Add information to resources using the Resource Information dialog box
- Set project start and end dates for a resource
- Set work hours for a resource
- Block off vacation time for a resource
- Assign resources to a task
- Replace resource assignments
- Assign a fixed-cost resource to a task
- View a project's estimated cost
- Set up resource rate changes
- Provide for multiple resource rates
Topics
- Creating a List of Resources
- Establishing Resource Availability
- Assigning and Removing Resources
- Estimating Project Costs
- Handling Resource Rate Changes
4. Viewing Projects
Time: 2 hours
This course explains how to use views, tables, filters, and groups to focus on various sections of projects in Project 2007.
Objectives
- Use views and combinations of views to organize and examine projects
- Discuss the use of tables and how to make table adjustments
- Examine how to use sorting and filtering to make information more understandable
- Describe how to group tasks by common criteria
Topics
- Using views
- Working with combination views
- Changing and printing views
- Using tables
- Adjusting tables
- Sorting and filtering tasks
- Creating filters
- Grouping information
5. Resolving Scheduling and Resource Conflicts
Time: 3 hours
This course explains various techniques used to adjust a project's schedule and resolve conflicts caused by the overallocation of project resources.
Objectives
- Resolve resource conflicts
- Adjust project schedules and the critical path
- Identify resource conflicts
- Adjust resources and resource calendars
- Level resource assignments
- Contour resource work patterns
Topics
- Resolving scheduling conflicts
- Adjusting project schedules
- Adjusting the critical path
- Identifying resource conflicts
- Adjusting resources
- Adjusting resource calendars
- Using other time strategies
- Leveling resource assignments
- Contouring resource work patterns
6. Tracking the Progress of Projects
Time: 3 hours
In this course, you'll learn how to set a project baseline, enter tracking information, and calculate costs.
Objectives
- Track progress with a baseline
- Work with an interim plan
- Record actual start and finish dates, and remaining durations of tasks
- Update tasks with work completed
- Track cost information and manually override cost values
Topics
- Tracking progress with a baseline
- Working with an interim plan
- Recording actual start and finish dates
- Recording actual and remaining durations
- Recording work completed and updating tasks
- Timephased fields and rescheduling remaining work
- Tracking cost information
- Overriding resource cost valuations
7. Creating Reports and Calculating Earned Values
Time: 1 hours
This course explains the reporting features of Microsoft Office Project 2007 and describes the use and calculation of earned values.
Objectives
- View the progress of a project
- Print and customize a report
- Calculate earned values
- Use Microsoft Excel to evaluate earned values
Topics
- Viewing the Progress of a Project
- Printing and Customizing Reports
- Calculating Earned Values
- Using Excel to Evaluate Earned Value
8. Consolidating Projects
Time: 1 hours
This course explains how to work with subprojects, how to create consolidated projects, and how to share resources between projects.
Objectives
- Describe and create subprojects
- Consolidate subprojects and manage their links
- Move subprojects and create dependencies between them
- Connect and disconnect projects from resource pools
Topics
- Using subprojects
- Creating a consolidated project
- Working with consolidated projects
- Sharing resources across projects
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