Developed to assist our clients in their Microsoft Project training options in 2004, our A La Carte training was developed to provide our customers with a more comprehensive and flexible education program.
The A La Carte, 1 day 1 topic format, is topic-centric allowing clients to develop a specialized training curriculum based on the specific needs of their project and business stakeholders. Our customers find this format is beneficial to those who need an opportunity to become experts in a single subject with strict time restraints to reach their educational goal.
A La Carte training isn’t recommended for every course in our catalogue. A detailed A La Carte training outline is available upon request.
Value to the Organization
- Early detection of project issues
- Consistent monitoring of project progress
- Consistent and timely progress reporting
- Projects approved and monitored based on real time data
Value to the Participant
- Understand the difference between product and project scope
- Understand basic project management processes and where the company can optimize current processes
- Understand where project scheduling software can be used to leverage the competencies of team members
- Understand the importance of the milestone management and phase-based reviews
- Understand the importance of the existing product development environment and the impact the project could have on the plant floor
- Learn how to negotiate with stakeholders for the changes to product scope
- Learn to communicate the impact of change on the project schedule
- Learn to deal with the hard stuff
- Position yourself as a project savvy manager
Who Should Attend
- Project Managers
- Business Managers/ Operations Managers
- Team Members / Team Leads
- Project Stakeholders
- Project Estimators and Schedulers
- Individuals earning PDUs for recertification
- Individuals who use MS Project® regardless of their role in the organizations.
Format available in 1 Day per topic format
A La Carte One Day Topics
Setting MS Project® Standards
Best Practices for MS Project®
Implementing the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management Suite including Microsoft PWA®, Microsoft Project Professional®, Microsoft Project Server®, and Microsoft SharePoint®
Fundamental Course Topics Include:
- Introduction to MS Project®
- Selecting a Project Scheduling Tool
- Best Practices and Microsoft Project®
- To Estimate or Schedule, That is The Question But What is the Answer
- Estimating Techniques with Microsoft Project®
- Scheduling with Microsoft Project®
Advanced Course Topics Include:
- Time Tracking with Microsoft Project®
- Reporting with Microsoft Project®
- Multiple Projects and Microsoft Project®
- Using Earned Value with Microsoft Project®
- Resource Management and Microsoft Project®
- Managing a Project Workflow and Microsoft Project®
- Resource Levelling and Microsoft Project®
- Proactive Scheduling (Managing the Dependencies)
- Analyzing Project Data (Bridging the gap between MS Project® and Excel)
- Exporting and Importing from MS Project®
- Collaboration and MS Project®
- Customizing the MS Project® Interface
- Writing Add-ins from MS Project®
- Capturing Earned Value with Microsoft Project®
Enterprise Course Topics Include:
- Writing Customized Applications for MS Project® (2 Days)
- Simulating a Real World Project with MS Project® (3 – 5 Days)
- Moving from Project Professional® on the Desktop to an Integrated EPM Environment
Length of Interactive Learning Session
- This curriculum has been designed to allow our customers to develop a proactive education program that will meet the needs of all the project stakeholders.
As a customer-specific session, these sessions can be delivered in an extended format that uses your specific business model, production, processes, procedures, and project management
