Microsoft Enterprise Project Management Solutions

Establishing a Project Management Foundation
using Microsoft Project 2003


PMPs Earn 14 PDUs


On-site Only: Not Available for Open-enrollment

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Course Overview


This course delivers the fundamental scheduling skills that you need to manage projects successfully with Microsoft Office Project 2003, and prepares you for the Managing Enterprise Projects using Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 course. Mastering the Microsoft Project scheduling engine is the key to enjoying your work with the software. This course shows you how to drive the tool through each stage of the project management life cycle and offers multiple best practices for using the software while defining, planning, and executing a project. Framed around PMI’s project life cycle, the course content is methodology-agnostic and focuses on hands-on learning methods.

Target Audience

Everyone who manages projects using Microsoft Office Project 2003 should take this course, whether in an enterprise or desktop-only environment. We target this course at the needs of full-time project managers, as well as those who function as project schedulers or project support technicians.

Pre-Requisites

Although not required, it is helpful for students to have hands-on project management experience or a high-level understanding of project management principles.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Describe the stages of the project management process
  • Understand the Microsoft Project user interface
  • Understand the Microsoft Project Data Model as it relates to Views, Tables, Filters, and Groups
  • Define a new project
  • Perform basic task planning and understand how to properly use task dependencies and task constraints
  • Add resources to a project and assign resources to tasks
  • Save a baseline for a project
  • Enter task progress using three different methods of tracking progress
  • Analyze project variance
  • Create custom Views, Tables, Filters, and Groups
  • Revise a project based on project variance
  • Change a project based on change control methodologies
  • Print project information using default and custom Reports