Topic 1

Managing the project and understanding project views

• Exercises: Preparing a project for analysis and tracking and performing Resource Leveling
• Customising the Gantt Chart bars
• Displaying the Critical Path
• Using the Formatting Tab of the ribbon
• Using Network Diagrams
• Displaying Tables
• Inserting and hiding columns
• Creating a New Table
• Applying Filters
• Using AutoFilters
• Understanding and viewing WBS Codes

Topic 2

Examining and Updating the Project

• Amending tasks using various views
• Using Resource Leveling
• Understanding baseline and interim plans
• View project baseline information
• Compare baseline and scheduled information
• Tracking and Updating Tasks Effectively
• Exercise: Updating the Holiday project
• Viewing Progress Lines
• Exercise: Show the Project Progress Line
• Understanding project costs
• Exercise: Adding costs
• Creating a budget
• Viewing total resource costs
• Viewing total task costs
• Reducing project costs
• Understanding Project Deliverables

Topic 3

Printing and Reporting

• Printing project views
• Viewing and changing the print settings
• Add a header, footer, or legend to a view
• Viewing the built in Reports
• Editing Reports
• Visual Reports
• What You Can Print
• Reports by Report Type

Topic 4

Multiple Projects and Resource Sharing

• The Resource Pool
• Exercise: Create a resource pool from an existing project and share the resources
• Updating the Resource Pool
• Review and update assignments
• Update resource availability or cost information
• Stop sharing resources (temporarily)
• Stop sharing resources from a Resource Pool (permanently)
• Consolidating projects
• When to use a master project and subprojects
• Insert subprojects into a master project
• Compare Project Versions