Establishing a Project Management Foundation
using Microsoft Project 2003
PMPs Earn 14 PDUs
On-site Only: Not Available for Open-enrollment
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