presents American Management Association Seminars
Managing Projects Using Microsoft® Project
Seminar No: 06550-XNBB
CEU Credits: 1.2
Length: 2 days
Learn how to use this popular software for project planning and reporting!
In today’s very demanding project environment, you could use all the support you need. This tool-based course provides the crucial training required to effectively customize and apply this PM-dedicated software to planning and controlling your entire project management life cycle, enhancing communication with project stakeholders and increasing overall project management efficiency.
Who Should Attend
Project management professionals who want to improve their skills, including project or program managers and directors. Attendance at an AMA introductory project management course or equivalent training or experience recommended. What you will need to bring: A laptop loaded with Windows 2000 or later version and Microsoft Project 2003. If your laptop has Microsoft 2000 or 2002, you can still participate since these releases are similar at our utilization level. The seminar leader will demonstrate from Project 2003 but can point out the differences with your version. If you’d like to discuss your existing project files with the leader, bring them along.
How You Will Benefit
- Execute projects on time and on spec
- Effectively formulate a project plan that integrates time, effort and resources
- Automatically calculate forward and backward pass and determine float
- Save time and effort by using the software for project updates
- Create reports tailored to various project stakeholders and organizational levels
- Achieve more efficient resource allocation
What You Will Cover
- Introduction to Microsoft Project 2003: versions, data structure, graphical user interface
- Personalizing the GUI: toolbars, tables, views, calendars
- Creating a new project file: setting parameters
- Entering data: work packages, relationships, durations, resources, effort
- Producing the integrated project plan: software benefits and limitations
- Controlling the project: from entering actual to updating the baseline
- Probabilistic project management, shared resources, schedule buffers
Take advantage of our package-pricing offer! Register for this seminar for only $895 when you attend selected AMA project management seminars. Please call for details.
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New York
AMA executive Conference Center
1601 Broadway New York, NY 10019
American Management Association (Located in the same building as the Crowne Plaza Hotel) 1601 Broadway On Broadway and 48th Street near Times Square. Entrance is on 48th Street.
Chicago
AMA executive Conference Center (adjacent to the Marroitt O'Hare)
8655 west higgins rd
Chicago, IL 60631
San Francisco
AMA executive Conference Center is located in San Francisco Marriott Hotel
55 Fourth Street 2nd Level
San Francisco, CA 94103
Atlanta
AMA Executive Conference Center
Address: 1170 Peachtree Street Ne Cnr Peachtree & 14th (3rd Flr)
City, State, Zip: Atlanta, GA 30309
Washington, DC
Arlington, Virginia
2345 Crystal Drive, Suite 200
Arlington, VA 22202
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