MS Project Tool Usage

• To enable participants to prepare a project plan, enter tasks, develop calendars, define task dependencies, and assign resources etc
  
• To enable participants to baseline project, use various views, track progress, prepare reports and establish relationship with other plans

• Ice breaking and workshop norms (15 min)
• Overview of project management and context setting (15 min)
• Case Study initiation (15 min)
• Preparation of schedule (1 hour)
  • Creation of tasks list or work breakdown structure
  • Defining milestones, phases, tasks
  • Sequencing of tasks
  • Dependencies among tasks
  • Creation of resources
  • Resource allocation
  • Defining start and finish date
• Introduction and inclusion of various fields (30 min)
• Demonstration of various views (30 min)
• Defining calendars (30 min)
  • Demonstration of three default calendars
  • Creation of specific calendar for project
  • Defining holidays and vacations in calendar
• Managing resources (30 min)
• Reviewing resource workloads
• Resource leveling
• Cost tracking in MS-Project (15 min)
• Optimizing duration by determining critical path (30 min)
• Baselining of schedule and multiple baselines (30 min)
• Advanced formatting of schedule (45 min)
• Project tracking and controlling (45 min)
  • Entering actual in MS-Project
  • Re-planning schedule based on actual progress
  • Comparing with baseline and re-baselining
  • Measuring Performance With Earned Value Analysis
• Reporting with MS-Project (45 min)
• Discussion on the way to utilize the learning’s in the organization (30 min)

• Senior and Middle Management in Delivery, Process group, Quality and Testing Teams, Project leaders, Test leads, Team leads etc
• Senior managers in HR, Operations, other Support functions