Microsoft Project Level II
(2-day Course)

(Versions: 2013, 2016)*

Location: Online Format (Zoom, WebEx, Google Meet)

General Overview:

Microsoft Project is a project management software tool designed to assist project managers in developing schedules, assigning resources, tracking progress, analyzing workloads and managing budgets.  Project Level II will be taught in the Microsoft Project 2013 or 2016 environment with special focus on new features in the 2016 version of Project.

Learning Objectives:

Project level II helps users become more comfortable managing the Project environment with a special focus on Previ.  This level also helps the user become more comfortable the visual reports needed to manage small to large projects.

You will Learn:

• Customizing Tables, Views and Reports
• Templates
• Tracking Project Data
• The Organizer
• Earned Value Analysis
• Importing
• Exporting
• Maps
• Master Projects
• Subprojects
• Resource Pools
• Hyperlinking
• WBS Coded
• Macros

Target Student:

Project Level II is for individuals who possess a firm knowledge of project management concepts after completing a Project Level I course.  This level is specifically catered to project manager who are required to quickly produce and analyze project reports.  This course builds on the foundations learned in a basic Project Level I course.  An advanced knowledge of Excel, specifically Pivot Tables is a requirement for this course.

Section 1: Customizing Tables, Views and Reports

• Customizing Project Elements
• Custom Tables
• Custom Views
• Customizing Reports

Section 2: Working with Templates

• Sample Templates
• Custom Templates
• The Organizer

Section 3: Tracking and Analyzing Project Data

• Progress Lines
• Earned Value Analysis
• Custom Visual Reports

Section 4: Importing and Exporting Data

• Importing and Exporting Files
• Using Import/ Export Maps

Section 5: Working with Multiple Projects

• Master Projects and Subprojects
• Working with Multiple Projects
• Linking Tasks Across Projects

Section 6: Resource Pools

• Resource Pools
• Working with Resource Pools

Section 7: Additional Features

• Rollup Task Bars
• Hyperlinks
• Custom WBS Codes
• Macros

*All Classes are instructor led.
Class recording will be made available after the class.