PDU Courses, MS Project Full Life Cycle, Training MS Office, Visio, PMP Certified Instructors, PMBOK

PDU Courses - MS Project Full Life Cycle (16 PDUs)
This course is appropriate for those who are involved in various phases of planning, execution, control or customer of a project. It is important to have an understanding of various aspects of project before working with a powerful tool such as MS Project. Users with a PMP certification or involvement in the PMBOK methodology will definitely have an edge in extracting the most from this course.

An introduction to the PMBOK methodology on planning and running projects
Introduction to the MS Office family which includes Project 2003 along with Visio and other powerful programs
Creating new projects using standardized templates
MS Project 2003 over 200 features including tasks, resources, calendars, views, reports, attributes
An introduction to Earned Value Management
Creating automated Earned Value Reports in MS Project 2003
Real life project that includes over 100 tasks and over 20 resources with critical paths, delays and opportunities of improvements using baselines and duration compression techniques
Resource load balancing and heuristics
An introduction and demonstration of Project Server 2003 an Enterprise Management System
Instructors with MS Project 2003 launching experience for Microsoft Corporation
PMP Certified Instructors with years of PMP Training Experience
Instructors with 10+ years of Industry Experience
Instructors with at least a Masters Degree and prior training experience

Course Contents

The course is custom developed to incorporate project management concepts, strategies, along with a thorough knowledge of the use of MS Project 2003. Over 200 MS Project 2003 features are demonstrated in a span of 2 days but in a coordinated way so as to make the user appreciate the power of Project Management rather than the tool. The course outline will generally follow the format:

Note: You need to have MS Project 2002 or higher installed on your system to open the Project files.