Microsoft Project Intermediate Course Overview

• effectively use resource assignment in a project
• assign resources to tasks in a project
• resolve resource over allocation problems
• assign materials in a project
• assign costs in a project
• impost constraints and deadlines on a project
• monitor a project and track its progress
• print various aspects of a project

Specific Topics: Microsoft Project Intermediate Course

Assignment Concepts

1. Understanding Resource Assignment
2. Project's Calculation Methodologies
3. Understanding Effort
4. Creating Simple Assignments
5. Understanding Task Types
6. Working with Fixed Unit Assignments
7. Working with Fixed Duration Assignments
8. Working with Fixed Work Assignments
9. Working with the Driver Resource
10. Understanding Effort Driven Resourcing
11. Disabling Effort Driven Resourcing

Assigning Resources

1. Overview of Assigning Resources
2. Assigning Resources Using Task Entry View
3. Assigning Part Time Resources
4. Contouring Resource Usage
5. Assigning Specific Work Times
6. Problem Assignments
7. Assigning Resources in Task Information
8. Assigning Resources in a Sheet
9. Assigning Resources That You Don't Have

Resource Levelling

1. Resource Levelling Overview
2. Creating Resource Chaos
3. Tracking Down Overallocations
4. Fix 1: Changing Work Effort
5. Fix 2: Assigning Overtime
6. Fix 3: Hiring Contract Labour
7. Fix 4: Switching Work Assignments
8. Fix 5: Rescheduling Tasks

Assigning Materials

1. Overview of Assigning Materials
2. Assigning Fixed Material Consumption
3. Contouring Materials Usage
4. Adding More Material Resources
5. Assigning Variable Usage Materials
6. Adding to a Material Assignment
7. Checking Work for Materials

Costs

1. Costing Overview
2. Reviewing the Current Cost Status
3. Variable Resource Costs
4. Assigning Daily Costs for Equipment Hire
5. Assigning Resource Usage Costs
6. Assigning Fixed Costs
7. Assigning Material Costs
8. Using Multiple Cost Tables
9. Changing Resources Rates During a Project
10. Viewing Costs

Constraints & Deadlines

1. Overview of Constraints & Deadlines
2. Reviewing Our Project
3. Adding a Constraint
4. Using Elapsed Time to Resolve Conflicts
5. Creating a Deadline

Project Monitoring

1. Overview of Project Monitoring
2. Creating a Baseline
3. Getting Project to Update Progress
4. Manually Updating Task Progress
5. Entering Delayed Tasks
6. Tracking Actuals on a Gantt Chart
7. Using the Tracking Box
8. Viewing Task Slippage

Printing

1. Overview of Printing
2. Printing a Gantt Chart
3. Printing Sheet Views
4. Printing Jobs for Resources
5. Printing Resources for Tasks

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