Project managers face challenges in spending time with Business and Teams. Microsoft Project Plan helps you execute projects with ease. Microsoft Project reports helps Project Manager to anticipate problems earlier and manage effectively.
Training Title: Microsoft Project Plan (MPP) - 2 days
Objective
Studies say 45% of Projects had cost over run, 63% of Projects had time over run. Project managers undergoing this training will be able to manage the projects effectively, by step-by-step creation of WBS, Estimating techniques, Developing Project Schedule, Allocate & leveling of resources, work with multiple views, creating baselines, tracking the project progress, Generating Reports / Charts for status update, highlight risks, etc.
Benefits of using Microsoft Project Plan:
Delight Customer through Consistent Delivery
Deliver Quality through effective Customer Collaboration
Timely Allocation of Work to Suppliers /Vendors and Teams
Optimize Project Costs through Proactive Risk Management
Execute Complex Projects as per scope, time and cost
Improved Project Success
Manage Changes across Projects, Programs and Portfolios
Optimize Project Profitability through optimal Resource Usage
Topics Covered
The topics covered in this training / workshop are
Introduction to Project Management
Project Life Cycle
Basics of Scope, Schedule & Cost Management
Initialize a project
Create a new project
Create and maintain calendars
Create custom fields
Customize option settings
Create a task-based schedule
Set up project information
Create and modify a project task structure
Build a logical schedule model
Create a user-controlled schedule
Manage multiple projects
Manage resources and assignments
Enter and edit resource information
Create and edit resource assignments
Manage resource allocation
Manage resource allocations by using Team Planner
Model project costs
Track and analyse a project
Set and maintain baselines
Update actual progress
Compare progress against a baseline
Resolve potential schedule problems
Display critical path information
Communicate project information
Apply and customize views
Share data with other applications
Configure and display reports and dashboards
Target Audience
Project Leads, Project Managers, Delivery Managers and Senior Manager who need to manage multiple, large sized and complex projects using the best practice guide lines. This Project Planning is applicable across multiple Industries / Sectors.
Key takeaways
Key takeaways from this training / workshop are
Hands-on about scheduling techniques
Sample project examples
Assigning resources to activities in optimistic manner
Manage parallel, multiple and critical path activities
Adding of buffers, leads, lags and delays to schedule
Track the progress of each task (Percentage complete, work in progress, etc.)
Monitor the team activities in a better way
Ability to visualize any risks ahead
Ability to take Corrective actions to avoid schedule delays
Our Expert trainer Sivaram Athmakuri, conducted 400+ sessions on Project Management and 200+ sessions on Agile frameworks (Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, DSDM Atern) via both Classroom and ONLINE sessions. He is an experienced in Corporate & Public sessions both and trained over 5000 professionals and enabled them to achieve Certification in Project Management, Risk Management, MS Project Planning, Primavera & Agile Frameworks.
