Project 2007 Online Training Course
Course Topics: 8
Estimated Time Needed: 16 hour(s)
Audience: This training course is for anyone who wants to learn the most commonly used features of Microsoft Office Project 2007.
Course Description: Get projects under control with Microsoft Project's latest version, 2007. Build schedules, communicate effectively with everyone involved, chart your progress, and keep track of budget and project materials. This online course will show you how to use this complex tool to save time and maximize your projects' success.
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Course Tutorials Include:
Project 2007: 1 Getting Started with Project 2007
Description
This course explains the fundamentals of tasks and how to customize them to effectively utilize Project 2007.
Objectives
- Discuss the basic concepts of project management such as setting a goal and planning, revising, and tracking a project
- Identify basic project management terminology
- Illustrate the process of setting up a new project in Project 2007
- Configure a calendar in Project 2007
- Add tasks to a project
- Explain how to operate the Project Guide
Project 2007: 2 Building a Project
Description
This course explains the fundamentals of tasks and how to customize them to effectively utilize Project 2007.
Objectives
- Demonstrate the fundamental customization of tasks
- Explain how to establish task timings
- Describe the process of creating and customizing recurring tasks and notes
- Illustrate how to create and modify dependencies
- Identify the process of assigning task constraints
- Manage conflicts between constraints and dependencies
Project 2007: 3 Setting Up Resources and Establishing Costs
Description
This course explains how to use Project 2007 to assign people and materials as resources to project tasks, manage the work hours of those resources, and configure and monitor project costs.
Objectives
- Add information to resources using the Resource Information dialog box
- Set project start and end dates for a resource
- Set work hours for a resource
- Block off vacation time for a resource
- Assign resources to a task
- Replace resource assignments
- Assign a fixed-cost resource to a task
- View a project's estimated cost
- Set up resource rate changes
- Provide for multiple resource rates
Project 2007: 4 Viewing Projects
Description
This course explains how to use views, tables, filters, and groups to focus on various sections of projects in Project 2007.
Objectives
- Use views and combinations of views to organize and examine projects
- Discuss the use of tables and how to make table adjustments
- Examine how to use sorting and filtering to make information more understandable
- Describe how to group tasks by common criteria
Project 2007: 5 Resolving Scheduling and Resource Conflicts
Description
This course explains various techniques used to adjust a project\'s schedule and resolve conflicts caused by the overallocation of project resources.
Objectives
- Resolve resource conflicts
- Adjust project schedules and the critical path
- Identify resource conflicts
- Adjust resources and resource calendars
- Level resource assignments
- Contour resource work patterns
Project 2007: 6 Tracking the Progress of Projects
Description
In this course, you'll learn how to set a project baseline, enter tracking information, and calculate costs.
Objectives
- Track progress with a baseline
- Work with an interim plan
- Record actual start and finish dates, and remaining durations of tasks
- Update tasks with work completed
- Track cost information and manually override cost values
Project 2007: 7 Creating Reports and Calculating Earned Values
Description
This course explains the reporting features of Microsoft Office Project 2007 and describes the use and calculation of earned values.
Objectives
- View the progress of a project
- Print and customize a report
- Calculate earned values
- Use Microsoft Excel to evaluate earned values
Project 2007: 8 Consolidating Projects
Description
This course explains how to work with subprojects, how to create consolidated projects, and how to share resources between projects.
Objectives
- Describe and create subprojects
- Consolidate subprojects and manage their links
- Move subprojects and create dependencies between them
- Connect and disconnect projects from resource pools
Features
- Flash and audio provide animated, interactive Lesson Introductions, Activities, and Simulations.
- Audio accompanies each lesson page throughout the course.
- Show Me Hows allow learners to access instructional demonstrations from all courses in the series.
- Simulations teach learners to perform specific tasks in applications through guided, multi-step exercises.
- Activities allow learners to apply course concepts in an interactive questioning environment.
- Full-page images allow learners to experience an application as if it were open on their computer.
- Exercises allow learners to practice in the actual application being studied.
- Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, or in a dictionary. In addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course.
- Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required.
- Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
- A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.
- A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
- Bookmarking tracks the learner's progress in a course.