Duration
2 days
Overview
This two-day course will provide practical, hands-on experience for creating, managing, and reporting on project schedules with Microsoft Project Professional and Microsoft Project Online.
Key skills addressed: defining your project, creating tasks, and making assignments, then managing and tracking the project in Project Professional and Project Online. Other topics include analyzing projects in Project Center, viewing capacity and demand information in the Resource Center as well as using Project Sites and other topics.
Pre-requisite
Microsoft Project – Basic knowledge, know how to create project schedule (input tasks, set tasks relationships, and assign resources). Able to use a web browser.
Classroom Setup
- Microsoft Project Professional need to be installed for each participants.
- Each participant must have access to Microsoft Project Online and be assigned the Project Manager role
Audience
Project Managers, Team Leads & Resource Managers
Outline
Introducing Microsoft Project Online
- What is project online
- Project online interfaces
- Project Online Terminology
- The Project Online interactive update cycle
- Database schemas in Project Online
Project Web App Orientation
- The Home Page
- Project Center
- Working with Ribbons and Views
- Resource Center
- Tasks and Timesheet
- Approvals
- Issues and Risks
- Strategy
- Reports
- Managing Alerts and Reminders
Microsoft Project Interface Orientation
- The user interface
- Working with project files
- Navigating the Ribbons & Backstage
- Navigating Views
- Detail/Split Views
- Moving Tasks
- Gantt Navigation
- Using Auto Filter
- Using Filters, Groups and highlighting
- Using Outline Level
- Turning on the Project Summary Task
Creating Enterprise Projects
- Creating Projects in Project Professional
- Defining the Project
- Building the Project Team
- Creating the Work Breakdown Structure
- Creating Dependencies
- Applying Constraints and Deadlines
- Understanding Task Types
- Entering Work and Duration Estimates
- Resource and Assignment Planning
- Enterprise Calendars
- Critical Path and Task Drivers
- Baselines
- Upload Enterprise project to Project online
Working with Project Center (PWA)
- Project Center Views
- Viewing Schedule Details in PWA
- Editing Projects in PWA
Working with Resource Center (PWA)
- Viewing Enterprise Resources in Resource Center
- Resource Center Views
- Viewing Resource Assignments
- Capacity Planning Views
Tracking Time
- Tracking Time and Task Progress in PWA
- Updating Task Progress using the Tasks as Project Manager/Resources
- Page
- Updating Task Progress Via Timesheets
Collaboration with Project Sites
- Tracking Issues and Risks
- Add or Edit an Issue
- Add or Edit a Risk
- Using the Document Library
- Check out a document for editing
- Check in a Document
- Managing Alerts for Documents
- Managing Alerts for Issues and Risks
Reporting
- Creating Reports in Project Online
Resource Engagements
- Creating Engagement Requests
- Reviewing and fulfilling Engagement Requests
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.