PMI Westchester Member - $400
All Others - $500

Managing projects effectively requires understanding project needs and managing time, cost, and resource constraints to deliver quality products / services that are on-time and within budget. This poses an ongoing challenge for project managers. Microsoft Project provides the capability to view, analyze, and manage these four elements concurrently. It is used to schedule and track project activities as well as to communicate project status.

Learn how to:

• Set up your planning guidelines in MS Project
• Enter work breakdown structure information
• Set up project and resource calendars
• Assign resources to your project and tasks
• Fine tune your schedule to meet project constraints and resolve conflicts
• Baseline the project planning information
• Track your project by updating with actual information
• Review progress and variance information

In this course, students will develop an understanding of how to:

• Define and develop work breakdown structure
• Use MS Project to:
• Create and track project schedules
• Update the schedule with actual data
• Perform earned value and variance analysis
• Publish project status