Who should attend?

• Anyone who wants to gain confidence in managing projects of any size!
• Everyone wishing to learn how to use MS Project effectively
• Anyone seeking to become more effective
• Everyone who wants to get organised.
• Anyone who'd like to save money and time
• Everyone who would like more usable skills included on their cv

Define and Specify Project

• Use scenarios to define and specify a few real life Projects on paper

• Map the project of your choice into MS Project and agree a start/finish date

Task Management

• Identify and define tasks and milestones

• Add, edit, move and link tasks and milestones

• Arrange tasks in a logical groups in the project

• Apply constraints and deadlines to tasks

• Add notes to tasks and resource information

• Link MS Project with other software to deliver additional project information to resources and other interested parties

• Use scenarios to learn strategies to deal with problems and delays to minimise their effect on your project.

Resource Management

• Identify and define your available resources

• Record salaries of work resources and costs material resources

• Apply downtime and holidays to resource calendars

• Assign resources to their tasks

• Ensure that there are not time over-allocations

• Learn how to manage and use your resources effectively

Risk management

• Establish the risk that any task, event or resource will not perform in the way you expect

• Discover how to identify risks and learn strategies to manage them

Cost Management

• View and change costs of work and material resources

• Apply a baseline to your project

• Show budget and over/under spending

• Identify and find cost savings

Communication

• Track your project progress

• Report to all those with an interest in the project only the information they require

• Learn how to get the project team working with you

• Discover effective meeting management techniques

Complete and Close Down a project

• Define project completion

• Learn how to close down a project under control

• Understand why it is important to review a project at the end