Duration
2 days
Suitable for participants who have some project management knowledge
Overview
This course is intended for anyone who needs to acquire quick and immediate working knowledge of using Microsoft Project for Earned Value Measurements and Analysis.
The course is also supplemented with hands-on practices using MS Project to manage multiple projects of multiple priorities and sharing resources, apart of the course being designed to provide the best mix of experience, theory and practice in an adult learning environment.
The course covers key techniques and functional skills required to operate successfully when managing work in multiple projects of multiple priorities and project risk including uncertainty management. Visualizing “what-if” scenarios and simulations are used to reinforce the learning.
Formal presentations will be brief and used mainly to introduce key concepts and significant elements of software project management like MS Project. Emphasis is on practical applications through “hands on” action learning. This will require a high level of participation and team involvement.
Objectives
- Provide participants quick working knowledge of Microsoft Project earned value charting, measurement and analysis using MS Excel.
- Reading and analysing “poor” earned value project performance “warning signals” in measurement charts during project execution.
- Reading suspicious earned value performance behaviour such as ahead of schedule while under-spending may spell poor work quality.
- To instil the habit of anticipation with regard to identifying and responding to issues and challenges in managing multiple projects and multiple priorities.
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Have working knowledge about the project management earned value process, measurement and analysis.
- Have understanding of managing multiple projects and the various priority-ranking techniques.
- Have a set of project management software and charting tools, techniques and system for immediate application at the workplace.
Methodology
Presentation, Microsoft Project hands-on sessions, case studies and examples, team exercises.
Day 2
- Challenges Unique To Multiple Projects
- Organizing Programs And Categorizing Multiple Projects
- Multiple Project Selection Techniques
- Establish And Rank Multiple Project Priorities
- Visualizing Multiple Projects And Critical Paths
- Project Resource Management And Multiple Project Resource Pooling
- Resource-Sharing Among Multiple Projects
- Availability And Resource Loading (Overload And Under-Utilization) Of Projects
- Entering and charting Earned Value measurements using MS Project
- Analysing and interpreting Earned Value measurements from spreadsheets and charts
- Tracking And Controlling Multiple Projects Schedules And Costs: Earned Value Analysis & Variance In Project Control
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.