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Microsoft Project 2019 - Beginners Course

Calling all project managers! Learn how to plan, execute, and monitor your projects effectively with Microsoft Project 2019.

(ms-project-2019) / ISBN : 978-1-64459-163-5
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The ‘Microsoft Project 2019 - Beginners Course’ equips you with the knowledge and tools required to plan, schedule, and manage complex work projects. The comprehensive course curriculum covers the core concepts of project management covering a wide range of subjects ranging from fundamentals to advanced techniques. You’ll learn how to create and manage project plans by setting up tasks, resources, and timelines. Discover a hands-on learning approach with our Lab exercises and examples of real-world projects.

Skills You’ll Get

  • Create new projects, define project objectives, and manage project scope
  • Manage tasks by assigning resources, and setting deadlines
  • Understanding of task dependencies and their impact on project timelines
  • Identify and manage critical paths & potential bottlenecks in a project schedule
  • Expertise in allocating resources & tasks effectively
  • Tracking the project’s progress with defined milestones
  • Complete understanding of time phasing techniques for allocating work over time
  • Creating a timeline for visual representation of project schedules
  • Tracking and monitoring the project’s progress and identifying deviations
  • Balancing workloads to optimize resource utilization and allocation
  • Perform simulations to assess the impact of changes on the project
  • Identify shared workspaces to facilitate collaboration among team members
  • Manage multiple versions of a project plan with version control

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1

Introduction

2

Fundamentals

  • Module A: Setting default options
  • Module B: Exploring the Project environment
  • Summary
3

Starting a new project schedule

  • Module A: Project schedule templates, calendars, and workflow
  • Module B: Tasks, durations, and milestones
  • Summary
4

Task types, effort-driven scheduling, and task constraints

  • Module A: Task types
  • Module B: Lag time and lead time
  • Module C: Task constraints
  • Summary
5

Working with resources

  • Module A: Resource types
  • Module B: Resource calendars
  • Module C: Assigning resources
  • Summary
6

Managing the project schedule

  • Module A: The critical path and the project baseline
  • Module B: The tracking Gantt chart and updating tasks
  • Summary
7

Printing reports

  • Module A: Views and dashboards
  • Module B: Other reports
  • Summary
8

Introduction

9

The Quick Access Toolbar and advanced calendar topics

  • Module A: The Quick Access Toolbar
  • Module B: Advanced calendar topics
  • Summary
10

Working with tasks

  • Module A: Task notes, task deadlines, and task priorities
  • Module B: Miscellaneous task features and functions
  • Summary
11

Working with resources

  • Module A: Grouping, sorting, filtering, and highlighting resources
  • Module B: Resource working time and resource pools
  • Module C: Resource budget cost items
  • Summary
12

Managing the project schedule

  • Module A: Multiple baselines and interim plans
  • Module B: Setting and using a status date
  • Module C: Resolving resource conflicts and scheduling issues
  • Module D: Delaying a task
  • Summary
13

Other views and shortcuts

  • Module A: The Task Form, Task Details Form, and Task Name Form
  • Module B: The Resource Form
  • Module C: Compound views and the Relationship Diagram
  • Summary
14

Working with multiple projects and project integrations

  • Module A: Consolidating multiple projects
  • Module B: Project Server, Project Online, and SharePoint
  • Summary
15

Working with Project data and closing out a project

  • Module A: Working with Project data
  • Module B: Closing out a project
  • Summary

1

Fundamentals

  • Setting Tasks in All New Projects as Auto Scheduled
  • Opening a Project
2

Starting a new project schedule

  • Creating a Project Schedule from a Template
  • Creating a New Base Calendar and Adding a Holiday
  • Setting Up the Initial Project Workflow
  • Entering and Promoting a Summary Task
  • Deleting a Task
  • Inserting a Task
  • Adding a Recurring Task
  • Configuring the Project Timescale
3

Task types, effort-driven scheduling, and task constraints

  • Changing Task Types and Setting the "Effort driven" option
  • Setting Lag Time and Lead Time for Project Tasks
  • Setting Task Constraints
4

Working with resources

  • Entering Resources and Related Information
  • Creating, Modifying, and Applying a Resource Calendar to a Project
  • Assigning and Working with Resources
5

Managing the project schedule

  • Setting a Project-Schedule Baseline
  • Updating Tasks' Percentage of Completion
  • Updating the Actual Start Date in the Tracking Gantt View
  • Splitting a Task in the Tracking Gantt View
  • Inactivating a Task in the Tracking Gantt View
6

Printing reports

  • Creating and Printing a Dashboard Report
  • Creating and Printing a Resource Report
  • Creating and Printing a Costs Report
  • Creating and Printing an In Progress Report
7

The Quick Access Toolbar and advanced calendar topics

  • Adding and Moving Quick Access Tools
  • Creating and Implementing a 24-hour Calendar
  • Implementing a Task Calendar
8

Working with tasks

  • Adding and Formatting Task Notes
  • Setting a Task Deadline
  • Setting Task Priority
  • Sorting Tasks
  • Filtering Tasks
  • Adding Fixed Cost to Tasks 
9

Working with resources

  • Setting Working Time For Specific Resources
  • Creating a Resource Pool
  • Sharing a Resource Pool
  • Setting Up a Task Usage View
  • Creating a Budget Cost Resource
  • Creating a Budget Work Resource
  • Creating a Budget Material Resource and Assigning It to the Project Summary Task
10

Managing the project schedule

  • Setting Multiple Project Baselines
  • Using a Status Date to Update a Project Schedule
  • Using Resource Leveling to Manage Overallocated Project Resources
  • Delaying a Task
11

Other views and shortcuts

  • Implementing the Relationship Diagram in a Compound View
12

Working with multiple projects and project integrations

  • Consolidating Projects
13

Working with Project data and closing out a project

  • Copying the Timeline to a PowerPoint Presentation
  • Annotating a Project Schedule View
  • Exporting Project Data to Excel
  • Capturing and Using Project Data in PowerPoint
  • Creating a Cost Overruns Report with Headers and Footers
  • Creating a Template File from a Project

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This course teaches you how to effectively plan, schedule, and manage complex projects using Microsoft Project 2019. The key topics covered include project management basics, advanced project scheduling, tracking & reporting, and collaboration & teamwork.

Yes, it covers resource allocation and management for best utilization of available resources.  

The advanced topics covered in this project management course include 

  • Resource Management
  • Time Management & Scheduling
  • Reporting & Analysis
  • Collaboration & Integration

MS Project 2019 is a powerful tool often used for managing large-scale projects. However, it is flexible and scalable, which makes it adaptable to smaller projects as well.

Yes, it can be installed and used along with Microsoft 365.

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