Project Planning and Control using MS Project

Target Audience


Staff, at all levels, involved in estimating, planning and controlling systems development projects or setting up new procedures for project management. This includes, in particular, Project Managers, Team Leaders and Project/Programme Support staff.

Learning Objectives


To present to delegates the basic principles and techniques for estimating, planning and control of information systems projects.
 
To provide delegates with the skills required to create, resource and manage projects using the powerful features of Microsoft Project.

Pre-Requisites


Delegates are assumed to have a working knowledge of Windows 95/98. No previous knowledge of project management or Microsoft Project is assumed

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Course Summary


The course will develop competence in the use of these techniques utilising Microsoft Project thus providing delegates with a consistent set of procedures increasing their success as Project Leaders.

Course Content

Planning and control principles
  • The need for project planning and control.
  • Why projects fail.
  • Fundamentals of planning and control.
  • Understanding MS Project default settings.

Estimating
  • Estimating effort and duration.
  • Hard and soft estimates.
  • Function Point Analysis.
  • Adjustments, allowances and contingency.
  • Developing estimating skills.

Planning techniques
  • Dependencies.
  • Activity networks.
  • Critical path analysis.
  • Schedules and Gantt charts.
  • Building and editing a project in MS Project.
  • Structuring projects in MS Project.

Resourcing and task allocation
  • Identifying resource requirements.
  • Allocating tasks to people.
  • Creating and assigning resources in MS Project.
  • Resource smoothing.
  • Fundamentals of resolving overallocations in MS Project

Quality assurance and change control
  • Quality control techniques.
  • Change control procedures.

Controlling progress
  • Information needed.
  • Collection, analysis and reporting.
  • Managing project costs in MS Project.
  • Managing and updating actuals in MS Project.
  • Taking corrective action.
  • Overview of MS Project filters, views and report

Examinations


There are no exams associated with this course

Upcoming Courses

Location Date
London - Central 13 Dec 10
London - Central 28 Mar 11
London - Central 26 Jul 11

This course is also available at your premises by appointment.

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