MICROSOFT PROJECT TRAINING
AND SUPPORT SERVICES
The Project Man will provide training courseware development services to Customer. This involves the creation or modification of custom courseware when new or modified classes are requested.
This includes predevelopment tasks such as requirement definition interviews and requirements definition documentation, as well as actual courseware development tasks such as of courseware documentation, graphics production, handouts, and sample files.
For new materials, development time estimates, unless otherwise specified, are based on a standard "training material development" formula of eight hours of development time for each hour of deliverable training material.
For modification of existing material, an estimate of the time required to make the requested changes will be provided for approval before work is started.
The Project Man will provide training presentation and delivery services to Customer. This involves the presentation and delivery of the custom Microsoft Project training courses listed below.
All training will take place at Customer training facilities. Unless otherwise specified, classes begin at 8:00 a.m. and conclude at 3:30 p.m.
Because of the unique experience of the instructor, these classes can be tailored, within reason, to the experience level and background of those attending. Whether attendees come from the discipline of scheduling, cost and finance, proposal development, general management, or administrative support, each class can be tailored to their specific needs.
This is a series of one-day classes that can be taught as a combined set or broken into one-day sessions, as needed.
This is a custom course developed at the request and under the direction of Customer. It includes relative topics and examples, and is designed to teach the use of Microsoft Project in the customer's specific environment. It covers beginning and intermediate level information on the overall use of Microsoft Project, as well as fundamental principles and practices of Modern Project Management.
Prerequisites: Attendees should be comfortable using Windows 98, 2000, or XP. They should also be familiar with the basic concepts of Project Management. Experience with Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel is also helpful, but not required.
Maximum Number of Students: 12
(DAY ONE) INTRODUCTION TO SCHEDULING TASKS
This course is designed to teach basic methods of scheduling tasks and developing projects. Students will build a simple project schedule, create a baseline, record progress, and print standard Gantt charts.
(DAY TWO) INTRODUCTION TO ASSIGNING RESOURCES AND COSTS
This course is designed to introduce the basic methods of creating and assigning resources to tasks, identify schedule conflicts, resolving conflicts, assigning costs, creating budgets, and recording resource work accomplished. During this course students will also examine and print standard resource views and reports.
(DAY THREE) INTRODUCTION TO VIEWS AND REPORTS
This class is designed to introduce students to the standard views and reports, as well as learn how to modify and create their own reports, with an emphasis on modifying Gantt charts. They will also learn how to make subtle adjustments in order to control how reports are printed. They will learn how to place graphics, such as company logos or program insignia within reports and in headers and footers. They will also learn how to display Microsoft Project reports in other Microsoft Office products.
This is a series of one-day classes that can be taught as a combined set or broken into one-day sessions, as needed.
This is a custom course developed at the request and under the direction of Customer This class covers intermediate and advanced methods for scheduling tasks, managing resources, tracking progress and creating custom reports. In particular, this course was designed to teach scheduling techniques and methods used to support Critical Path Method and to perform Probabilistic Risk Analysis. This class also covers advanced methods for managing multiple projects in the IPT and IMP/IMS environment.
Prerequisites: Attendees must have completed "Introduction to Microsoft Project"
Maximum Number of Students: 12
(DAY ONE) ADVANCED PROJECT SCHEDULING
This course is designed to teach advanced scheduling methods and analysis tools in Microsoft Project 98/2000/2002/2003. Students will also learn how to manage multiple projects, how to link tasks between individual projects, and how to develop projects in an IPT and IMP/IMS environment. There is an emphasis on supporting Critical Path Method (identifying the critical path) and performing basic Risk Analysis. Students will also learn advanced tips on managing project data in a workgroup environment.
(DAY TWO) ADVANCED RESOURCE AND COST MANAGEMENT
This course is designed to teach all the advanced tools available in Microsoft Project 98/2000/2002/2003 for managing resources and their related costs. Students will learn to create work profiles and define resource costs that can change over time. They will learn to share resources across multiple projects and identify and resolve the scheduling conflicts that result. They'll learn advanced methods of recording progress and how to use Microsoft Project 98/2000 to calculate Earned Value. Students will also discover the advanced resource reports and views available in this latest version of Project.
(DAY THREE) ADVANCED REPORT AND VIEW PUBLISHING
This course is designed to teach students how to manage, view and manipulate all the various reports in Microsoft Project 98/2000/2002/2003. They will learn to create, share and manage standard reports. The will develop several advanced Gantt charts and learn to identify and fix problems in many of the existing charts and views. They will learn how to create graphic and HTML reports that can be displayed on an Internet Website. The will also learn advanced tips and trick for printing.
This course is designed for experienced users of Microsoft Project. It introduces all of the new features and changes in Microsoft Project 2002/2003. It can be taught as a single two-day course, or treated as two separate one-day courses.
Prerequisites: Attendees must have completed "Introduction to Microsoft Project" This class is not for beginners.
Maximum Number of Students: 12
(DAY ONE) SCHEDULING AND MISCELLANEOUS
This class is designed to introduce all the new features in Microsoft Project 2002/2003, with the exception of all the new resource and cost management features. Students will learn about the new file format, how to share information with previous versions of Microsoft Project, and how to access all the new fields in the database. They will learn about changes to views, tables and reports, as well as all the new navigation and data entry tools. Students will also learn about new multiple project features, new ways that schedules are calculated and new tools for recording progress. In addition, they will learn about the latest printing and Internet connectivity features.
(DAY TWO) RESOURCE AND COST MANAGEMENT
Because this area has been expanded more than any other an entire day is needed to uncover all the new tools, views and reports. This is where Microsoft Project 2002/2003 changed the most, and it can become very confusing, but is very powerful. Students will learn about the new resource profile capabilities, how to show changing resource costs over time, and how to use the new and complex, but very powerful Resource Usage and Task Usage views. This class also introduces the new and improved Earned Value capabilities.
This course is for the uninitiated in Project Management. The first half of this class is spent introducing basic Project Management principles and practices. This provides a foundation for learning what Microsoft Project is used for, and how to create, save and print a basic project schedule. At the conclusion of this class students will understand what projects are, how Gantt charts and PERT charts are used, what Critical Path Method is and how it is calculated, why effectively managing projects are important to business success, and how to create basic schedules in Microsoft Project.
Prerequisites: Attendees should be comfortable using Windows 98, 2000, or XP. Experience with Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel is also helpful, but not required.
Maximum Number of Students: 12
This class is designed teach how Microsoft Project 98/2000 is used to calculate Earned Value. Several modifications have been made to this latest version of Microsoft Project to better support Earned Value method. Students will learn the procedures and methods that must be followed for Microsoft Project 98/2000 perform accurate Earned Value calculations successfully.
Prerequisites: Attendees must have completed either "Introduction to Microsoft Project." Completion of "Advanced Microsoft Project" is helpful but not required.
Maximum Number of Students: 12
Custom Training Manuals
Hardcopy originals will be provided to Customer for reproduction as needed. The right to reproduce manuals is limited to the number of copies required for students attending scheduled classes, and may only be used in classes trained by representatives of The Project Man. Reproduced manuals may only be distributed to individuals who actually attend training sessions.
Reference Manuals: Special Edition Using Microsoft Project 98/2000/2002/2003, Que Corp.
Upon request, the "Using Project 98/2000/2002/2003 Special Edition" reference manual will be made available for advanced classes.
The Project Man will provide on-the-job skill transition training for Customer. This consists of one-on-one or small group training and support for students who have completed a training course and need additional assistance applying those skills to a specific project.
The Project Man will provide assistance and support in developing project schedules, views, and reports, as well as any other program support services requiring the use or modification of Microsoft Project.
