Beth Mosolgo-Clark – Project Management using Microsoft Project
Learn the Right Skills and the Right Software to Become a Project Manager
Are your projects expanding in size and scope faster than you can manage them? Are you ing to work on an enterprise team and need to understand how larger projects work? Have you found yourself unexpectedly taking on the role of project manager? Is your IT career path taking you in the direction of project management?
As IT and development projects get increasingly complex, the role of project manager has become more critical. Whether you’re a reluctant project manager trying to improve the output and efficiency of your team, or an aspiring project professional, you’re going to find this course extremely helpful. With over 20 years of project management experience, Beth Mosolgo-Clark will be your instructor as you learn the basics of project management, including terminology, techniques, reporting, and costing. At the same time, you’ll become familiar with Microsoft Project–the software most commonly used by project professionals.
This course includes hours of video lecture, dozens of project management examples, and samples. You’ll find there is no better way to dive into Microsoft Project software and the field of project management!
Episodes
- Course Introduction (1:35)
- Introduction (1:35)
- Why is Project Management important? (5:45)
- Key Components of a Project (3:11)
- Purpose of a Project (4:18)
- Project Resources (4:36)
- Project Constraints (3:40)
- Lab Exercise 1
- Summary (0:58)
- Unstated Objectives and Constraints in your Project (5:19)
- Introduction (0:58)
- User Experience in MS Project (6:46)
- Creating a New Project (4:24)
- Summary (0:58)
- Lab Exercise 2
- Gantt Chart Basics (7:18)
- Introduction (0:53)
- Project Tasks in MS Project (9:16)
- Relationships Between Tasks (7:02)
- Critical Path Basics (9:18)
- Summary (0:50)
- Lab Exercise 3
- Introduction (0:59)
- Critical Path (8:12)
- Subdividing Tasks (5:25)
- Task’s Driving Predecessors (8:34)
- Task Float (6:29)
- Summary (0:54)
- Lab Exercise 3A
- Introduction (0:54)
- What are Project Resources? (5:07)
- Representing Project Resources in MS Project (6:55)
- Assigning Resources to a Task (8:17)
- Resource leveling in MS Project (3:58)
- Updating Task Progress (7:06)
- Managing Part-time Resources (2:04)
- Summary (1:05)
- Lab Exercise 4
- Introduction (0:42)
- Calendars in MS Project (5:23)
- Editing Your Projects Calendar (14:11)
- Calendar Information in the Gantt Chart (8:19)
- Summary (1:15)
- Lab Exercise 5
- Introduction (1:02)
- Gantt Chart View (6:36)
- Resource Utilization (5:38)
- Milestones (4:56)
- Network Diagram View (4:16)
- Spreadsheet Views (2:49)
- Reports (9:07)
- Summary (1:09)
- Lab Exercise 6
- Introduction (0:50)
- Assigning a Labor Rate to Project Resources (9:00)
- Recording Non-lab Project Costs (11:24)
- View Project Cost Reports (8:17)
- Managing Project Costs (6:57)
- Summary (0:56)
- Lab Exercise 7
- Introduction (1:07)
- Integrating MS Project with other Microsoft apps (9:02)
- MS Project Macros (5:51)
- Going Mobile and the Cloud (4:24)
- Scaling MS Project for your Organization (4:11)
- Alternatives to MS Project (8:34)
- Summary (0:55)
- Course Summary (1:59)
- Lab Exercise 8
- Lab Solutions
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