Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
5 Hour(s) 3 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
SkillSprints Inc., Beth Mosolgo-Clark
Rating
Course Overview
Learn the Right Skills and the Right Software to Become a Project Manager
Are your projects expanding in size and scope faster than you can manage them? Are you starting to work on an enterprise team and need to understand how larger projects work? Have you found yourself unexpectedly taking on the role of project manager? Is your IT career path taking you in the direction of project management?
As IT and development projects get increasingly complex, the role of project manager has become more critical. Whether you're a reluctant project manager trying to improve the output and efficiency of your team, or an aspiring project professional, you will find this course extremely helpful. With over 20 years of project management experience, Beth Mosolgo-Clark will be your instructor as you learn the basics of project management, including terminology, techniques, reporting, and costing. At the same time, you'll become familiar with Microsoft Project--the software most commonly used by project professionals.
This isn't a course where you'll simply watch the instructor and nod along-- You'll be immersed in lab activities teaching you both the fundamentals of project management and the Microsoft Project software package.
This course includes hours of video lectures, dozens of project management examples, and samples. You'll find there is no better way to dive into Microsoft Project software and the field of project management!
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 70 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Welcome to Project Management using Microsoft Project
- Section 2 Basic Project Management Concepts
- Section 3 Creating Your Project in MS Project
- Section 4 Creating and Managing Project Tasks
- Section 5 The Critical Path and Other keys to scheduling project tasks
- Section 6 Creating and managing project resources
- Section 7 Calendars
- Section 8 View and Reports
- Section 9 Tracking and Managing Project Costs
- Section 10 Additional Features
What You’ll Learn
- Identify the Key Components of a Project
- Identify the Purpose of a Project
- Understand Project Resources
- Understand Project Constraints
- Comprehend Unstated Objectives
- Create a Project with MS Project
- Create Relationships Between Tasks
- Understand the Basics of Critical Paths
- Be Able to Subdivide Tasks
- Understand Task Float
- Represent Project Resources in MS Project
- Assign Resources to a Task
- Perform Resource Leveling in MS Project
- Update Task Progress
- Manage Part Time Resources
- Utilize Calendars in MS Project
- Edit a Project's Calendar
- Displaying Calendar Information in a Gantt Chart
- Report Resource Utilization
- Work with Project Milestones
- Use Network Diagram Views
- Use Spreadsheet Vies
- Assign a Labor Rate to Project Resources
- Record Non-Labor Project Costs
- View cost Reports
- Manage Project Costs
- Integrate with other MS Applications
- Create MS Project Macros
- Work in Mobile and the cloud
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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BBirendra
The introduction of this course is thrilling, exactly high lighting what is happening in project management processes. It was clear and gave me understanding of what more to expect.
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AAbayomi Olaniyan
Clear explanations and helpful examples
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MMegha Rathi
It’s good
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MMuhammad Za'im Fauwaz Bin Mohd Zain
This course is really helpful in understanding the concepts of project management and the methodologies to use Microsoft Project. However, the course will be better if the lab files are included.
