Microsoft Project Master Class
Microsoft Project is the best tool for scheduling projects. However, it is not without its problems. Happily most problems with using Microsoft Project stem from a lack of knowledge of how Microsoft Project works, or just plain lack of scheduling.
If the Business case describes what will make a project successful and why it should go ahead, then schedules communicate the how, when, who and current progress of delivering a successful project. Good schedules are and essential part of good project governance and control. So, as a good project manager, you need to make maximum use of your main information tool: Microsoft project.
There are good courses on the basics for using Microsoft Project and Rod Gill strongly recommends all Project users either take the courses provided by training companies such as ACE Training or learn everything covered in them.
Standard courses are great at teaching you to use features for a product, but the trainers are rarely skilled and experienced in actually using the tool. Rod Gill spent 11 months helping to plan the Marsden Point Oil Refinery upgrade (finished in 2009). This was a 1,200,000 hour project that upgraded old 1960's technology and added capacity. Clearly this required pushing Microsoft Project to the limits and beyond!
The Microsoft Project Master Class takes Project Users who know all the material in typical 2 day Project courses and have at least 6 months experience with using the tool (plenty of time to get into a wonderful mess and accumulate masses of questions) and answers all your questions. The course teaches:
- How to solve common scheduling problems
- You more productive using Microsoft Project for less effort
- How to schedule Time critical projects
- How to schedule Resource constrained projects
- A Structure for your schedules that turns them into powerful communication tools
- Assigning and editing Resources easy and accurate for little effort
- Reporting on multiple projects
- How to make Critical paths accurate, useful, meaningful and visible
- How to slice and dice your project information in Microsoft Project in very productive and useful ways.
- Accurate and Easy ways to track your schedules
- Introduction to Automated project reporting
On this course the more you know, the more you will learn from it. Rod Gill promises
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