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Microsoft Project 2016

Microsoft Project is a project management software product, developed and sold by Microsoft. It is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.

To ensure success in this course, learners should have basic project management knowledge and skills. Additionally, learners should have competency in using other Microsoft Office applications, preferably Office 2016.

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Project 2016 Part 1

This introductory course will equip new students with an overview of Microsoft Project 2016, providing a beginner level foundation of the application and prepare learners for Microsoft Project 2016 Part 2. This course will cover getting started with Microsoft Project, defining a project, creating and organizing tasks, managing project plan resources, and finalizing a project.

To ensure success in this course, learners should have basic project management knowledge and skills

6 hours

Course ID: PRO16-P1

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101: Getting Started With Microsoft Project

This lesson will cover how to identify project management concepts, and navigate the Microsoft Project 2016 environment. This module will begin with a brief review of basic project management concepts and cover the essentials learners need to navigate the Project interface.

102: Defining a Project

This lesson will cover how to create a new project plan, define a project, and assign a project calendar. In this module, learners will create a new project plan and identify options for creating a new plan, define the project level options and project description, and modify and assign project calendars.

103A: Adding and Importing Tasks

This lesson will cover how to add tasks to a project plan and import tasks from other programs. In this module, learners will add tasks to the project plan, and import tasks from other programs such as Excel and SharePoint.

103B: Organizing and Managing Tasks

This lesson will cover how to create a work breakdown structure, define task relationships, and schedule tasks. In this module, learners will create and modify a work breakdown structure and milestones, define relationships between tasks and describe task dependencies, and schedule tasks and manage constraints and deadlines.

104: Managing Project Plan Resources

This lesson will cover how to add resources to a project plan, create a resource calendar, enter costs for resources, assign resources to tasks, and resolve resource conflicts. In this module, learners will add resources to a project and assign them to tasks, create a calendar for a resource, enter costs for different types of resources, assign resources to tasks, and resolve resource conflicts in a project plan.

105: Finalizing a Project Plan

This lesson will cover how to optimize a project plan, set a baseline, and share a project plan. In this module, learners will optimize the project plan using the critical path, set the project baseline and describe how the baseline fields are used, and share the project plan with team members and stakeholders.

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