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Built for the user who is familiar with the MS Project environment and basic tasks, this course focuses on advanced task and resource details, organizing, fine tuning the plan and troubleshooting. Contact us for a full course schedule. Training available at our site or yours, as we are fully mobile with laptops.

Outline

Lesson 1: Fine Tuning Task Details

  • Adjusting Task Relationships
  • Setting Task Constraints
  • Interrupting Work on a Task
  • Adjusting Working Time for Individual Tasks  
  • Changing Task Types
  • Entering Deadline Dates
  • Entering Fixed Costs
  • Setting Up a Recurring Task
  • Viewing the Project’s Critical Path
  • Scheduling Summary Tasks Manually  
  • Inactivating Tasks
  • Key Points

Lesson 2: Fine Tuning Resource Details

  • Setting Up Resource Availability to Apply at Different Times
  • Entering Multiple Pay Rates for a Resource
  • Setting Up Pay Rates to Apply at Different Times
  • Setting Up Material Resources
  • Key Points

Lesson 3: Fine Tuning Assignment Details

  • Delaying the Start of Assignments
  • Applying Contours to Assignments
  • Applying Different Cost Rates to Assignments
  • Assigning Material Resources to Tasks
  • Viewing Resource Capacity
  • Adjusting Assignments in the Team Planner View
  • Key Points

Lesson 4: Fine Tuning the Project Plan

  • Examining Resource Allocations over Time
  • Resolving Resource Overallocations Manually
  • Leveling Overallocated Resources
  • Checking the Project’s Cost and Finish Date
  • Key Points

Lesson 5: Organizing Project Details    

  • Sorting Project Details
  • Grouping Project Details
  • Filtering Project Details
  • Customizing Tables
  • Create Custom Fields Quickly  
  • Customizing Views
  • Key Points

Lesson 6: Tracking Progress on Tasks and Assignments

  • Updating a Baseline
  • Tracking Actual and Remaining Values for Tasks and Assignments
  • Entering Actual Costs Manually
  • Tracking Timephased Actual Work for Tasks and Assignments
  • Project Management Focus: Collecting Actuals from Resources
  • Rescheduling Incomplete Work
  • Key Points

Lesson 7: Viewing and Reporting Project Status

  • Identifying Tasks that Have Slipped
  • Project Management Focus: Is Variance Ever a Good Thing?
  • Project Management Focus: Getting the Word Out
  • Examining Task Costs
  • Examining Resource Costs
  • Reporting Project Cost Variance with a Stoplight View
  • Key Points

Lesson 8: Getting your Project Back on Track

  • Troubleshooting Time and Schedule problems
  • Troubleshooting Cost and Resource problems
  • Troubleshooting Scope-of-Work Problems
  • Key Points

Speaker/s

Theresa Cronje

Special Offer

  • NGO and NPO 40% discount on all courses booked
  • Companies offering training to unemployed learners include a 35% discount
  • Group bookings offered discounted rates
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Sankin Computer Training offers MICT Accredited end using computer training on the Microsoft Office Suite (all levels) to individuals and corporate clients countrywide.

 

Established in 2003, Sankin Computer Training was born from an Internet Café, where the founder of the business recognised a need for education in the private and public sector. Having a background of computer training for Quest Personnel, our private company, Sankin Computer Training soon took root and has grown from strength to strength.

 

Sankin Computer Training is designed to offer short, intensive, personalized courses that effectively present new concepts and techniques through interactive training methods. Small focused groups allow for individual attention and the practical application of theory.

 

We Offer:

Personal training venue in Glenwood, Durban for up to 8 delegates in a boardroom styled air-conditioned office with secure parking on site.

Training at your premises – we are equipped with 15 laptops and ready to travel, saving your company logistical arrangements and costs. We have enjoyed training all over South Africa this way, in both major cities and in outlying areas.

Flexible calendar – we prize ourselves on arranging our training times and dates according to your company and delegate’s requirements. ...

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