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Keep up with advancing technology in successful management with Mr. Bender's blog at http://www.TheValueStrategist.com
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Mr. Bender's newest book. Written especially for executive managers, A Manager's Guide to Project Management forcuses on organizaitonal aspects of project management.
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MS Project 2007 Best Practices
Seminar Overview
In this hands-on 2-day class, Ms. Ellen Lehrnert, PMP, MCT, MCITP will show you how to get the most out of Microsoft Project 2007 to ease management, communication, and control of your projects. A Microsoft certified MS Project/MS Project Server trainer, Ms. Lehrnert has over 10 years experience in training, consulting, and implementing Microsoft Project and MS Project Server systems. Rich with tips, tools, and techniques, Ellen will guide you through the structure of MS Project and show you how to make it work for you.
As an added bonus, this course also prepares you to take the MS Project Certification exam.
Ally proudly offers this course through LehnertCS, LLC.
Who Should Attend
This seminar is designed for all levels. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced project manager who's frustrated with the software, you'll master techniques to better manage and communication through MS Project.
What's Covered
- Applying PMI principles to Project Scheduling software
- Planning the schedule to provide you with optimum
scheduling, reporting, and tracking benefits
- Creating a WBS that will facilitate building an
effective project schedule
- Task estimating, task typing (is it work, units or is it duration)
- Relationships, durations, constraints, deadlines
- Resources – costing and calendars
- Lead, lag, leveling resource work loads
- Maintaining the current schedule while comparing it to
current and original baselines
- Preparing a project for tracking and tracking concepts
- Reporting, creating custom values to support your process
- MS Project Server questions addressed as requested
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Your Benefits
- Develop accurate project schedules
- Improve resource leveling
- Develop your own best practices
- Develop schedules based on your project, not on the software
- Accurately cost and budget your project
- Communicate better through improved reports generation
- Accurately record actual events as the project progresses
- Improve your project templates
- Adapt the software to meet your needs
Added Bonus
This course prepares you for the
MS Project Certification Exam
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Syllabus
1. Day 1 - Morning Session
- How project management concepts apply to MS Project
- What you need to know to create an effective project schedule
- Overview of Project software -- database design of schedules
- Overview of the screens and views
- What you must do BEFORE entering the first task
- Create a new project - new and template
- Calendars and Schedule Options
2. Day 1 - Afternoon Session
- Creating a WBS
- Enter tasks and task maintenance
- Outlining tasks to create the WBS
- Durations, relationships, lead and lag, constraints and deadlines
- Resources and resource calendars
- Project costing
3. Day 2 - Morning Session
- Resource assignments
- Critical path and slack
- Resource leveling
- Resource critical path
4. Day 2 - Afternoon Session
- Project statistics
- Baselines and tracking
- Reports and task filters
- Master projects - link between projects
- Resource pools
- Importing and exporting data
- Hyperlinks, global values, and additional customization features
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Detailed Seminar Information
Seminar: 151
Two Days: 14 PDUs
Download Full Description (PDF):
Ally 151
For questions, please e-mail: registrar@allybusiness.com
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Dates and Locations
This seminar is available in an open-enrollment format. Click below for locations and dates.
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The Ally Difference
All Ally seminars include individual and group exercises to reinforce learning and practice new skills; open, interactive discussions to encourage the exchange of ideas and concepts; and employ adult learning theory to ensure the attendees get the most out of their experience.
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