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Course description
Professionals and students who understand the theory and concepts of project planning, scheduling and control are often frustrated by the difficulty of apply them in Microsoft® Project. This Webinar will provide insight into some of its hidden capability and how that can be utilized in planning and controlling projects.
About the presenter:
David Crane is a respected authority in Project Management consultation and training. He has delivered consulting services and training to thousands of employees of major firms throughout the United States.
David brings with him over thirty five years of management, consulting, training and software experience. During the last twenty two years he has provided project planning consultation and training to over 200 corporations from the fields of computer software, hardware, automotive engineering, energy, municipal engineering and manufacturing.
He has extensive knowledge and experience with Project Management software tools including 14 years using Microsoft Project as well as experience with Primavera Project Planner, Sure Track, MAPPS, Open Plan and others. He has developed customized Views, Tables, Filters and Reports in Microsoft® Project. These customized features support a simple, logical approach to project planning and control. This approach is shared with clients both in the classroom and through consulting.
He currently serves as a member of the Boston University Corporate Education Center adjunct facility where, for the past fifteen years, he has provided training and consulting services for their Management Development Programs. He co-authored the book titled, EFFECTIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT, Wiley 1995 - 2000 (Second Edition), ISBN 0-471-36028-7
Who should attend
Project managers, Project team members with an interest in understanding more of how MS Project can be utilized
What you will achieve
- An understanding of some of the hidden power of MS Project
- An overview of using it as a tool to build a model of a project
- An appreciation of how project planning and the use of tools such as Microsoft Project should be integrated
What you will learn
- The contrast between how MS Project is typically used and its hidden power
- That the standard “look and feel” views are not the ones you have to live with
- That MS Project can be used as a modeling tool to test the feasibility of a project
- How resource assignments can cause durations to change
- How to view the Critical Path on a customized copy of the Gantt Chart
- How Slack can be used to address Resource over allocation
- How a Tracking Gantt Chart with the Baseline shown, can be used to spot and manage variance
What you will achieve:
- An understanding of some of the hidden power of MS Project
- An overview of using it as a tool to build a model of a project
- An appreciation of how project planning and the use of tools such as Microsoft Project should be integrated
