MS Project Online Training Summary

Integent’s training will provide students with the knowledge needed to effectively manage both projects and resources.  Furthermore, all components of the Microsoft PPM solution will be used. This includes Microsoft Project Online, Microsoft Project Professional, and Project Web App.

As a result, students will learn how to create, plan and manage project schedules.  All through lecture and hands-on exercises in the Microsoft Project Management software. In other words, you are going to get a well-rounded training experience!

Best Practices

Integent’s courses combine Microsoft Project use with project management fundamentals.  In addition, each course is designed to provide a practical, hands-on approach in project management. For instance, project planning and creation, analysis, communication, and reporting.  Therefore, students will be well prepared to use the product after training.

We also have beginner courses, where students will be provided an introduction to Microsoft Project.  This is where you will learn how to navigate views, build a project schedule, read a Gantt Chart, and assign resources.  On the other hand, our advanced course will cover analyzing and measuring progress, creating budgets and resources ,and customizing and sharing reports.  Above all, core project management principles will be well established by the conclusion of class.

All our Microsoft PPM training courses utilize project management best practices.  In addition, our instructors are also field consultants who will share valuable real-life scenarios learned on customer engagements.  To sum up, these are valuable lessons that you can immediately use in your roles today.

Moreover, we customize our training to ensure we train your students on how you plan to utilize the system. Therefore, this ensures an immediate benefit to the organization. In short, this is because your project management processes were used in the training content.

Project Creation

Students will be instructed in the practice of creating, managing and tracking detailed project schedules. This process will be covered using both Microsoft Project and Project Web App.

In addition, students will understand resource demand, capacity, and utilization.  As a result, the organization will adopt enhanced resource management capabilities.  Most importantly,  students will learn how to use the various resource planning capabilities in the product. Two of which include the Enterprise Resource Pool and Team Planner.

Collaboration

Students will learn effective team collaboration techniques using the SharePoint site for document, risk, and issue management.  Likewise, the Project Site is also used for deliverables, alerts, and much more.  Most importantly, these collaboration techniques enable highly effective project management teams in a diverse, fast-paced environment.

Reporting capabilities of Microsoft Project Online will be discussed and demonstrated.  Therefore, giving students the ability to go beyond the system views for project and resource data.

Interactive Update Cycle

Students will also become familiar with MS Project and Project Online’s interactive update cycle.  To clarify, this includes the process creating a work breakdown structure, assigning resources to tasks, and using Timesheets for Time-tracking in Microsoft Project Online.

Subsequently, team members will fill out the timesheet and potentially update remaining work.  Finally, the timesheet will be submitted. At that point the project manager will review and accept or reject approvals to automatically update the project plan.

Join us today.  Whether you need to prepare for certification training, skills for your position, or more.  Every course is available onsite at your location, or as a live online course.

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