Microsoft Project 2013 Beginners
This course introduces you to Microsoft Project 2013, and teaches you how to master the software to more effectively manage your projects. Microsoft Project is one of the most widely used project management tools in the world, and all project managers should know how to use the tool. You will learn how to manage projects from start to finish and use various features to organise plans, resources, tasks, budgets, workloads and much more.
Course Overview
Microsoft Project is the Microsoft Corporation's project management software. Since it's development MS Project has become one of the most widely used project management applications in existence. It provides assistance to project managers and coordinators by organizing plans, resources, tasks, budgets, workloads and much more, all while keeping track of a project's overall progress from start to finish. By taking this Beginners course, you'll get a detailed grounding in MS Project and enhance your Project Management capabilities.
Target Audience
Project Managers, aspiring Project Managers
Learning Objectives
In this course you will:
- Navigate project calendars, timelines and critical paths
- Set-up tasks and dependencies between them, including lag and lead times
- Explore project costs, leveling, and how to resolve resource over-allocations
- Get useful techniques for tracing task paths to simplify unruly Gantt charts
- See how to set-up baselines and interim plans
- Strategize with your team in Lync 2010 and implement security measures
- Distribute timelines and reports for online meetings as you export your data to other Microsoft programs and the cloud with SkyDrive
