Microsoft Project 2010 Level 1

Course Length: 1.0 day(s)

Course Overview

In addition to delivering projects on schedule and within budget, today's project teams must cope with rapidly changing environments. Microsoft Office Project is a powerful tool to help you break a project down into manageable parts, identify potential bottlenecks and generate information to keep your project under control. In this course, participants will create a project plan containing tasks, organize these tasks in a work breakdown structure containing task relationships, create and assign resources, and finalize the project to implement the project plan.

Target Student

This course is designed for a person who has an understanding of project management concepts, who is responsible for creating and modifying project plans, and who needs a tool to manage those project plans.

Student Prerequisites

Students enrolling in this class should have a general introductory-level understanding of project management concepts. Courses that help fulfill this requirement include: Project Management Fundamentals. The students should also have basic end-user skills with any current Windows operating system. Courses that help fulfill this requirement include: Microsoft Windows XP Professional: Level 1 or Microsoft Windows Vista: Level 1 or Microsoft Windows 7: Level 1.

Performance Based Objectives

· Identify the basic features and components of the Microsoft Project environment
· Create a new project plan file and enter project information
· Manage tasks by organizing tasks and setting task relationships
· Manage resources for a project
· Finalize a project plan