Microsoft Project 2007/2010 Training
PMWEB provides a wide choice of both certified and non-certified Microsoft Project 2007 training courses;
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Introduction to Microsoft Project 2007 - CODE: MSP-INTRO
Benefits
- Learn to create a new enterprise project on the Project Server.
- Learn to add resources to an enterprise project.
- Learn to establish a project baseline within the EPM solution.
- Learn to manage project updates.
- Learn to manage a project.
- Learn to manage project-related information.
- Learn to analyze a project within the context of the enterprise.
- Learn to exchange project plan data with other applications.
- Learn to update a project plan.
- Learn to manage project costs.
- Learn to report project data visually.
- Learn to reuse project plan information.
Who Should Attend?
- Anyone seeking an overview of MS Project 2007.
- Anyone working in a project context now or who will be shortly.
- There are no formal prerequisites.
Course Duration – Two Days |
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Microsoft Office Project 2007, Managing Projects - CODE: MS5927A
Benefits
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Get started with Microsoft Office Project 2007.
- Create and define projects.
- Work with estimates and dependencies
- Work with deadlines, constraints, and task calendars
- Work with resources.
- Predict behavior by using task types and the scheduling formula.
- Customize and format Microsoft Project views.
- Analyze resource utilization.
- Track progress.
- Create project reports which analyze project, resource, and task data.
- Manage multiple projects.
Who Should Attend?
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This course is intended for both novice and experienced project managers and schedulers. These individuals would be involved in or responsible for scheduling, estimating, coordinating, controlling, budgeting, and staffing of projects and supporting other users of MS Office Project. A familiarity with key project management concepts and terminology is recommended as well as basic Windows navigation skills.
Course Duration – Three Days |
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Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Managing Projects - CODE: MS5928A
Benefits
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Get started with Office Project Server 2007.
- Initiate projects.
- Understand the project planning processes.
- Plan projects through scope and schedule management.
- Plan projects through staffing management plans.
- Plan resource assignments for projects.
- Plan projects through cost, risk, and other planning documents.
- Execute projects through processes, resources, and deliverables.
- Execute projects by managing timesheets and personal settings.
- Monitor and control projects by tracking task and project progress.
- Monitor and control projects through measuring project performance and reporting progress.
- Close projects.
Who Should Attend?
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This course is intended for experienced project managers and schedulers. These individuals are capable of managing projects in the Microsoft Office Project 2007 EPM environment, including project and non-project efforts, risks, issues, documents, task progress, and timesheets. These individuals should be familiar with key project management concepts and terminology found in Project Management Institute (PMI), A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – and advanced knowledge and use of Microsoft Office Project 2007.
Course Duration – Three Days |
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Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Managing Projects and Programs - CODE: MS5929A
Benefits
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Define project, program, and portfolio management and explain their interrelationships in an enterprise environment.
- Describe the architecture and components of the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution and navigate the key interfaces of Office Project 2007, Project Server 2007, and Project Web Access.
- Define a standardized methodology for program governance.
- Propose and apply updates to an enterprise environment.
- Define a program by establishing its characteristics and parameters and delineate program benefits.
- Deliver the detailed plan of a program and optimize the program for time, cost, and resources in order to establish a program baseline.
- Define program resources, and after identifying the critical resources, review and update the program plan and baseline.
- Track the work of the program resources in timesheets and the task progress of the program in Project Web Access and Project 2007.
- Define Earned Value Management (EVM) and perform EVM, including metrics, variances, and performance indexes, in order to create forecasts and make effective adjustments to the program.
- Use Project Center and the Data Analysis (OLAP Cube) feature to view and report the status of a program and to make forecasts.
- Configure project workspaces to meet the needs of a program.
- Describe the closing process for a program and propose changes to the enterprise environment based on the lessons learned through a program life cycle.
Who Should Attend?
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This course is intended for project managers, program managers, members of the project management office, or participants in the deployment of an EPM solution, who are responsible for managing, analyzing, and reporting on projects and programs in the Microsoft Office EPM environment. Further, these individuals are able to refine the Office EPM environment to create solutions to business problems. A solid understanding of key project management concepts and terminology as found in the Project Management Institute (PMI), A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), Third Edition, and The Standard for Program Management is recommended. Additionally, substantial hands-on experience is recommended in Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, Project Server 2007, and Project Web Access prior to attending the course.
Course Duration – Five Days |
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