Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Apply project management principles to define project management phases
• Develop a detailed task list (work breakdown structure) to outline the project scope
• Accurately input durations, dependencies, resources, costs, and resource assignments using built in and custom views
• Use views to analyze and modify project information
• Use project statistics and reporting to determine the current status of a project
• Use milestones and deadlines to identify and track project progress
• Define the critical path and describe the impact of changes to the project on the critical path
• Understand the various types of task constraints and when to use them
• Identify required resources and budget
• Use views and reports to analyze and modify resource usage and project costs
• Resolve resource overallocations and set resource contours to manage project staffing
• Create custom views and reports to analyze and communicate variance, slack and slippage
• Consolidate multiple projects with a master project and with a common resource pool
• Research resources to solve problems independently