Managing Project with Microsoft Project 2016

Overview

This three-day, instructor-led course is intended for individuals who are interested in expanding their knowledge base and technical skills about Microsoft Project. The course begins with the basic concepts and leads students through all the functions they’ll need to plan and manage a small to medium-size project, including how to level resources and capture both cost and schedule progress.

Target Audience

This course is intended for both novice and experienced project managers, managers, schedulers, and other project stake holders who need to incorporate the discipline of project management with Microsoft Project.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the discipline of project management as it applies to using Microsoft Project 2016.
• Create a Work Breakdown Structure.
• Identify Task Types & Relationships.
• Define Resources within Project.
• Make Work Package Estimates.
• Create an Initial Schedule.
• Create a Resource Leveled Schedule.
• Create Projects from templates, Excel files.
• Create Global templates.
• Create formulas and graphical indicators.
• The steps to record a macro.
• Format Output and Print Reports.
• Integrate Multiple Projects.
• Set up a Project with a Calendar, Start date, and scheduling method.
• Understand Manually Schedule vs. Auto Schedule.
• Manage multiple projects.
• Be able to create a master project list with shared resources.

Course Outline

Chapter 1: Introduction to Microsoft Project
Chapter 2: A Quick and Easy Overview of Managing with Project
Chapter 3: Setting Up A Project
Chapter 4: Manually Schedule Vs Auto Schedule
Chapter 5: Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
Chapter 6: Identifying Task Relationship
Chapter 7: Defining Resources within Project
Chapter 8: Making Work Package Estimates
Chapter 9: Creating an Initial Schedule
Chapter 10: Create a Resource Leveled Schedule
Chapter 11: Managing the Project
Chapter 12: Formatting Output and Printing Reports
Chapter 13: Managing Multiple Projects
Chapter 14: Advanced Topics
Chapter 15: Summary

Exam Code

74-343

2026 CLASSES
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5 – 7	9 – 11	2 – 4	20 – 22	18 – 20	8 – 10
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