Those who require practical guidance on how to plan and schedule projects and who wish to acquire the necessary skills to customise and print high quality charts and reports for effective communication of project plans.

A sound understanding of Windows and one other Microsoft application.

• What is Project Management?
• All About Project 2003
• Getting Help & using the Project Guide
• The Project Interface & Task Pane
• Opening and Navigating Project Files
• Creating New Projects and Setting Project Objectives
• Modify the Base Calendar and Enter File Properties
• Outlining the Plan
• Inserting, Editing, Deleting, Moving and Copying Tasks
• Creating and Displaying Task Notes
• Using Smart Tags & Options
• Working with Tables and Views
• Scheduling Tasks with Dates and Durations
• Create and Modify Task Dependencies
• Understand and use Milestones
• Elapsed Time, Lag Time and Slack Time
• Dealing with Scheduling Issues
• Using Date Constraint and Deadlines
• Splitting & Recurring Tasks
• Using the Resource Sheet
• Entering and Editing Resource Details
• Basic Resource Assignments
• Part Time Assignments and Task Types
• Effort Driven Scheduling
• Displaying the Task Usage and Resolving Resource Conflicts
• Optimisation Techniques
• Creating and Using a Baseline
• Managing & Completing Tasks
• Sorting, Grouping and Filtering Tasks
• Setting System Options
• Formatting Tables & Views
• Using the Drawing tools
• Previewing and Printing Projects
• Controlling Page Setup
• Printing Reports using the Report Gallery
• Publishing Plans to the Internet/Intranet

On completion of the course delegates will possess the skills required to create project plans, enter tasks, resource and cost information; analyse and adjust schedules with date, dependency and resource constraints; customise and print Gantt Chart views and reports and record and review task progress against the Baseline.