Managing Projects from Foundation to Enterprise
using Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
PMPs Earn 28 PDUs
Customer Testimonials
I wanted to thank you for the class this week.
I found it very informative and useful. Although our projects seem large to us,
it was very refreshing to hear things from your much broader perspective.
I hope our paths cross again.
Dan O’Connor,
Teachers Credit Union
I wanted to take a moment to thank you for the training this week. It was marvelous!
My family is amazed at 1) the volume of the text materials and 2) that we got through it all in 4 days.
I learned so much more of the features in the professional product that I currently use, in addition to the
new functions I’ll be able to use with my pilot project. I thought the class was terrific.
Elizabeth DesMeules, PMP
Project Manager, Public Safety
Security Government & Infrastructure Division
Intergraph Corporation
Course Overview
This accelerated four-day course covers Microsoft Office Project 2007 basics, as well as how to use Microsoft Office
Project 2007 with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 to manage enterprise projects. Normally a five-day learning
track, our condensed course teaches you how to use Microsoft Project Professional and Microsoft Project Server through
each stage of the project management life cycle.
Target Audience
This course is a must for anyone who serves as a project manager or a portfolio manager in an enterprise project
management environment. This four-day course is in lieu of taking both the Establishing a Project Management
Foundation and Managing Enterprise Projects using Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 two-day courses.
Pre-Requisites
Although not required, it is helpful for students to have hands-on project management
experience and knowledge 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
- Describe the project communication life cycle used with Project Server
- Understand and use the Project Web Access user interface
- Create Proposals, Activities, and Resource Plans
- Define and save a new enterprise project, open an enterprise project, and work with offline projects
- Perform basic task planning and understand how to properly use task dependencies and task constraints
- Add resources to a project team, assign resources to tasks, and level overallocated resources
- Analyze the Critical Path and Task Drivers
- Save a baseline and publish a project
- Manage project Deliverables and Deliverable dependencies
- Track time and task progress
- Use Outlook to track task progress
- Approve and update time, task progress, and administrative time requests
- Analyze project variance, revise a plan, and manage project changes
- Report on project progress using Visual Reports
- Manage personal settings
- Work with Risks, Issues, Documents, and Tasks in a Project Workspace
- Create and manage Status Reports
- Analyze resource availability and view resource assignments in the Resource Center
- View the Project Portfolio in the Project Center
- Perform portfolio analysis using the Portfolio Analyzer