ABOUT
SAM HUFFMAN —PMP, MCITP, MCT
 Sam
Huffman is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Project Management
Professional,
and Microsoft Project MVP. He has also served as a member
of the Board of Directors at Project Management Institute
(PMI)—Puget Sound Chapter;
Microsoft project product
support at Microsoft; and was a Software Engineer, Support
Engineer,and Product Liaison at Microsoft .
  
Conducted
over five days with two sessions per day,
Monday-Friday 7AM –10AM and 12PM-2PM. All times are Pacific Coast Time.
 
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Full
Schedule of PMRG-Versatile Online Certification Training
Sessions
Click on any Date for full pricing details and
Early Bird Savings
Please read the System Requirements to participate in these training sessions
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March 5-9, 2012 — beginning at
7:00 a.m., PST
April 9-13, 2012 — beginning at
7:00 a.m., PDT
May 7-11, 2012 — beginning at 7:00
a.m., PDT
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Earn 24 PDUs/5 Day
Online Course |
Master
the latest release of Microsoft Project and earn a certificate
of preparation for Microsoft’s 70-178 certification!
COURSE
DESCRIPTION
This course takes you
step-by-step through the features and concepts
you’ll need to plan and manage projects effectively
with Microsoft Project 2010. Versatile integrates
the discipline of project management with a deep
understanding of Microsoft Project 2010.
Your instructor, Sam Huffman, is a Microsoft
Certified Product Expert. His knowledge is a result
of exhaustive exploration of new features as well
as hands-on experience using the tool to manage projects.
Sam—and all our instructors—teach our project
management discipline courses – providing you a unique
combination of software and professional knowledge.
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COURSE
OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, you will be
able to:
- Use the exam specifications that will guide your
preparation for the Microsoft 70-178 exam
- Understand the discipline of project management
as it applies to using Microsoft Project.
- Leverage the new
Ribbon to navigate the application
- Create a
Work Breakdown Structure
- Identify Task Relationships
- Define Resources within
Microsoft Project
- Make Work Package Estimates
- Create an Initial
Schedule
- Create a Resource Leveled Schedule
- Capture actual
performance data
- Format Output and Print Reports
- Create new projects
in SharePoint and Excel
- Set up a Project with a
Calendar, Start date, and scheduling method
- Understand
Manually Schedule vs. Auto Schedule modes
- Set project
baselines and use them to measure progress
- Integrate
Multiple Projects
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Course Outline
LESSON
1 — Introduction to Mastering Microsoft Project
- The value of project management software!
- How
does Microsoft Project integrate with the project
management discipline?
- The best strategies for navigating
the application using the new Ribbon.
- Includes
introduction of features that are new in Microsoft
Project 2010.
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LESSON
2 — A
Quick and Easy Overview of Managing with Microsoft
Project
- Get the big picture on using Microsoft Project
to plan and manage a project.
- See the high-level process
that will be the basis for the remainder of the
course.
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LESSON
3 — Setting Up a New Project
- Start a project off right.
- Open it from Excel
or SharePoint or create a new project within Microsoft
Project.
- Establish a calendar and set the basic parameters
for the scheduling engine.
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LESSON
4 — Manually Schedule vs. Auto Schedule
- A major new feature in Microsoft Project
2010!
- Understand
how to turn off Microsoft Project’s scheduling
engine and when to do it.
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LESSON
5 — Building a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- What is a WBS?
- Get a grip on tasks, summary tasks
and milestones.
- Know the difference between WBS
numbering and outline numbering.
- Guidelines for
a better WBS.
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LESSON
6 — Establish Task Relationships
- Introducing task dependencies and network diagrams.
- What are lag, lead and delay?
- Format the network
diagram.
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LESSON 7
— Defining Resources Within Project
- Resources accomplish the work on projects.
- Know
the different resource types and how to establish
their characteristics.
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LESSON 8 — Making
Work Package Estimates
- Create duration estimates and effort driven schedules.
- Use effort and task types to control Microsoft
Project’s scheduling engine.
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Lesson 9
— Creating an Initial Schedule
- Use critical path
analysis to create a schedule.
- Understand scheduling
constraints.
- “Crash” a schedule.
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Lesson 10
— Create a Resource Leveled Schedule
- Balance the available
people and other resources with the need for speed on
your project.
- Realistic schedules have realistic expectations
about resource availability.
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Lesson 11
— Managing the Project
- Capture plan vs actual
information to identify performance problems and communicate
project progress.
- Use a project baseline to find variance.
- How to split tasks and reschedule work.
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Lesson 12
— Formatting Output and Printing Reports
- Communicate effectively.
- Format the immense amount of information in Microsoft
Project into meaningful reports.
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Lesson 13
— Managing Multiple Projects
- Combine many smaller
projects together to see multi-project views of resource
use or
coordinate among projects.
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Lesson 14
— Advanced Topics
- Powerful, useful,
and rarely used features to take you to the next level
of effectiveness.
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Lesson 15
— Exam Study Tips
- Know what to study
and what to expect on the exam.
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Bonus
Benefits included with your attendance: