Microsoft Project

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.

MS Project, the project management software program by Microsoft, is a very handy tool for project managers that helps them develop a schedule, assign resources to tasks, track the progress, manage the budget, and analyze workloads for an ongoing project.

This course has been designed keeping in mind the needs of beginner level MS Project user. Project managers and Project planners from varied backgrounds who have not used MS Project, especially the 2017 edition before can use this tutorial for scheduling, planning, and reporting their projects of any size. This tutorial is designed with Project Standard features, hence there is no need of Project Professional.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Get started with Microsoft Office Project 2017.
• Create and define projects.
• Work with estimates and dependencies
• Work with deadlines, constraints, and task calendars
• Work with resources.
• Track progress.
• Prerequisites
• Experience using Microsoft Office Project to create project schedules.
• Fundamental knowledge of project management.
• Experience with the Microsoft® Windows® XP or Windows Vista™ operating
• system.
• Experience with Microsoft® Office Excel® 2017.