[NP-PPS-F] Project Planning & Scheduling

About Course

Course Objectives

Participants will acquire knowledge and skills in project scheduling & monitoring to coordinate projects, meeting goals and targets at work.

Course Description

Topics covered are:

Basic Features and Functions:
- Enter and schedule tasks
- Working with calendars
- Gantt Chart and network diagram
- Critical Path Method and Analysis
- Assign resources and resources levelling
- Set baseline
- Monitoring of project (tracking)
- Normal and Crash Time Relationship (Project Crashing)
- Time-Cost Trade-Off and Optimization
- Define custom table
- Printing of views and tables and producing status reports
- Creating, customising graphical report and visual report
- Timeline
- Practical Exercises

Advanced Features and Functions:
- Fine tuning the project plan and information
- Setting up a recurring task, task constraints, shifting tasks, elapse time
- Customise field with formulas
- Define codes for Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Assign material resources
- Tracking progress against the project plan
- Controlling the Project Cost using BCWS, BCWP and ACWP
- Exporting time scaled cost data into Microsoft Excel and plot graph to show the Scurve
- Consolidating several projects together and create master plan
- Creating dependencies (linking) between projects
- Sharing resources among projects and resources pool
- Sorting, grouping and filtering project information
- Advanced customisation of Microsoft Project
- Using the Organizer
- Using Microsoft Project with other programs
- Import/export project information from/to other applications
- Copying project information for presentation as a GIF file

Course Structure

TPG course reference No.

TGS-2018508103