Microsoft Office Project 2003

IIL CANADA
Fredericton, Toronto, Canada

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' This course is designed to check up on your day-to-day scheduling to make sure you are using the best practices of scheduling with Project 2003. These best practices have been established by IIL through evaluating and certifying over 1,000 real-life schedules. Course content is restricted to modeling and managing a single project in Microsoft® Project Professional. Good scheduling practices of single projects are needed to advance to multi-project scheduling (Blue Belt).

Note: Attending the Orange Belt course is a mandatory pre-requisite for attending the Blue and Black Belt courses.

Who Should Attend
Orange Belt is designed for individuals who use MS Project regularly, including those who use it on a day-to-day basis: project schedulers, project team members, project managers, project controllers, project control officers, and project engineers. Participants do not need to be White Belt certified to attend Orange Belt, but they must have managed at least one project with MS Project.

What You Will Learn
You’ll learn how to:
�Gain a thorough understanding of the Project 2003 user interface and its workings behind the screen
�Create a valid and dynamic model of your project
�Schedule with Project 2003 using best practices
�Become an expert in optimizing the project plan
�Create custom reports and views that meet the needs of stakeholders in your project
�Efficiently update the schedule during project execution to continuously forecast the project end date and cost
�Utilize the documented (and undocumented) shortcuts and features of Project 2003

IIL offers Orange Belt Certification.
The online certification exam consists of 30 multiple-choice questions. After you attend the course, you should plan on 20 extra hours of study to pass the exam. The certificate demonstrates your ability to use best practices for modeling and managing a single project in Microsoft Project Professional 2003.

Course Overview
Types of Data in Project 2003 and How They Relate to Each Other
�Options: project specific options and global options
�Project data: tasks, estimates, dependencies, deadlines, constraints, resources and assignments
�Objects: views, tables, filters, groups, and calendars

Entering Data into Project 2003
�Options: relevant options before entering data
�Deliverables and Tasks
�Estimates
�Dependencies and the network logic
�Deadlines (target dates): how deadlines support dynamic scheduling
�Schedule Constraints (fixed dates): types of schedule constraints and how they make your schedule rigid
�Resources
�Calendars: the project calendar, base calendars, resource and task calendars: using Enterprise calendars.
�Assignments

How to Manage Resource Workloads
�Preventing over-allocations using an Enterprise Resource Pool
�Resolving over-allocations
�Leveling workloads by hand
�Leveling workloads automatically

How to Decrease the Duration of Your Project
�Optimizing for Time (having unlimited resources): the Critical Path Method (CPM)
�Optimizing for Time, Cost and Resources (having limited resources: Resource-Constrained scheduling)

How to Decrease the Cost of Your Project
�Types of cost: fixed costs and variable costs (period cost, per unit cost, per use cost)
�How to model each type of cost in Project 2003
�Using cost rate tables for rate escalation and multiple rates per resource
�All the things you can do to bring down the cost
Checking the Schedule Before Publishing
�Did I apply the best practices?
�Using a 40-point checklist and ready-made filters

Reporting the Project the Way You Want
�Creating one-page reports... always!
�How to defend a visible time buffer or cost reserve to your manager, sponsor or client or how to hide it in the schedule otherwise
�Developing custom views

How to Enter Actual Progress and How to Update Forecasts in the Schedule
�Updating tasks versus updating assignments
�How to perform efficient task updates
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Phone:416-840-5960

School Address:

Royal Bank Plaza, South Tower, 200 Bay Street, Suite 3240, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2J1 Canada

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Earned Value Management Systems
Managing Project Scope
Program Management: Preparing for the PgMP Exam
Stakeholder Relationship Skills for Project Managers
Building High Performance Teams
Advanced Project Quality Management
Project Portfolio Management
Project Management Certificate
Advanced Project Risk Management
Project Management Fundamentals

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