Creating Effective Project Schedules

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This workshop is intended for associate project managers, project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, team leaders and project team members who want to learn to use Microsoft Project 2007 to create predictive, effective project schedules.

This workshop is taught via lecture and hands-on learning activities.

The instructor for this course will be an experienced project professional with in-depth knowledge of Microsoft Project. This ensures that the workshop participants learn highly practical techniques and tool best practices. Each participant also receives a supporting notebook with tips, exercises and references.

For maximum learning, preferred class size is 10 or fewer.

Key topics for this 3-day workshop include:

  • Start with a clean template
  • Set up and customize project calendar
  • Implement a productivity factor
  • Set project date
  • Determine most appropriate default task type
  • Using the project summary task
  • Gather inputs and create the WBS
  • Create milestones, estimates of work, and duration
  • Add contingency time
  • Create dependencies
  • Select resources and enter assignments
  • Optimize your schedule
  • Baseline your project
  • Avoid common pitfalls

Contact us for more information about this workshop or to schedule it at your site.