Project Management - Tasks, Work Breakdown Structure, Linking & Scheduling in MS Project

OVERVIEW

Plan and initiate your projects with confidence, knowledge, and consistency.

Task scheduling is often the most challenging and important phase in projects and is critical to project success, achievement of deadlines, attainment of budgets, and efficient use of resources. With Microsoft Project, you can represent the work breakdown structure by using task IDs or by assigning your own WBS code to each task.

Enter the world of professional project management. Forget scheduling on paper, whiteboards, or spreadsheets, MS Project automatically re-calculates timelines and critical paths saving you significant time! 

Understand the powerful capabilities of MS Project and how you can "work smarter... not harder".

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?

To gain a practical "hands-on" understanding of how to plan and initiate your projects with confidence, knowledge, and consistency. Work smarter, faster, and more effectively

• Boost profit, efficiency, and productivity
• Strengthen your resume and higher pay options
• Achieve more in less time with higher quality results.
• Improve job satisfaction, team performance, and professionalism
• Gain a strong competitive advantage at the peer and business level

AREAS COVERED

• Enter, Delete, Edit, Move, and Copy tasks
• Insert additional tasks
• Import task lists from Excel
• Enter milestone tasks
• Enter task durations
• Create task relationships
• Apply lag and lead time
• Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Automatically number tasks in a WBS

WHO WILL BENEFIT?

Staff, Managers, and Executives who are required to confidently manage data and present business-critical information in a wide variety of private and public sector professions including:

• Accounting, Banking
• Business Analysis
• Economics, Finance
• Insurance, Investment Advice
• Management
• Statistics, Strategic planning
• Government / Public Service
• Education / Academic
• Valuation, Audit
• Supply Chain & Logistics
• Human Resources
• Retail