Hands-on Project Planning and Scheduling using Microsoft® Project – 3 days

• Project vision
• Writing the project business case
• Selecting projects
• Project charter
• Preliminary project scope statement
• Determine project life cycle
• Project management team and their responsibilities

MS Project Hands-on

• Getting started with Microsoft Project
• Understanding the project interface
• Using and tailoring project templates
• Setting up project environment and calendars
• Entering project phases

• Tailoring project
• Define project assumptions and constraints
• Determine project scope and requirements
• Develop work breakdown structure and scope baseline
• Identify activities and their internal and external dependencies
• Understand estimation techniques and estimate activities
• Determine resource requirements and resource availability
• Assign resources and develop optimized schedule
• Estimate project cost and establish cost baseline
• Define project quality expectations and objectives
• Determine and analyse risks and develop risk response plan
• Identify project procurement and contracting requirements
• Develop resource management plan
• Establish communication interfaces and requirements
• Baseline the project plan
• Communicate and distribute the project plan

MS Project Hands-on

• Tailor project template
• Enter project deliverables, tasks and milestones
• Define task dependencies and relationships
• Determine task estimates using PERT, history and expert judgment
• Enter project constraints and deadlines
• Determine resource requirements using generic resources
• Replace generic resources using named resources
• Determine project costs using resource information
• Understand and use the project critical path to compress project duration
• Determine risks on the critical path
• Determine resource work loads and resolve workload overallocation
• Optimize and fine tune the plan
• Determine communication and reporting requirements
• Present the project plan to management
• Baseline the project plan
• Communicate the project plan to stakeholders
• Planning best practices and checklists

• Implement project plan
• Keep an eye on the development activities
• Analyze progress and determine and implement corrective actions
• Report progress
• Perform quality assurance tasks
• Evaluate project team performance

MS Project Hands-on

• Get timesheet information and update the schedule
• Use project reports to review team performance
• Keep the schedule up to date with latest information
• Analyse and Report any deviations
• Run project reports for day to day management of the project
• Executing best practices and checklists

• Change request impact analysis and control
• Performance reporting and forecasts
• Recommend corrective and preventive actions

MS Project Hands-on

• Progress reporting using reports and views
• Forecasting efforts, dates and costs
• Maintain and control baseline
• Monitoring and controlling best practices and checklists

• Summarizing the project
• Document lessons learnt
• Evaluating and conducting project end reviews and reports
• Archiving project data for historical information

MS Project Hands-on

• Creating project templates
• Project performance reports
• Archiving data for process capability metrics
• Closing best practices and checklists

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