MS Project: Advanced Scheduling and Resource Management - School of Continuing Education, University Of Wisconsin

	MS Project: Advanced Scheduling and Resource Management

	It is critical for project managers and team members to use the functions and features of MS Project® to create an optimum schedule for your project. These schedules can be effectively created and managed by using additional techniques for assigning and maximizing resources, developing non-default dependencies, and developing and communicating project status using visual reports. Value to the Participant - Develop best practices for creating schedule dependencies - Create standards for reconciling project progress - Identify reporting requirements that communicate critical project status - Use resource leveling to create an optimum schedule - Leverage the reporting capabilities of MS Project - Use an optimized approach to resource management and costing Earn a Project Management Certificate
More ▼ Seminar Outline Introduction • Terms of reference • Project management life cycle • Critical PM deliverables Ensuring a Standard Configuration • Project configuration • Tool configuration Setting up Resources • Adding staff resources • Using generic resources • Setting resources to inactive • Time constraints for individuals • Adding material resources • Using the per use function • Determine the billable component Creating Project Estimates • Estimating versus scheduling • The difference in the roles • Types of estimating Effort Based (People) Estimates • Loading resources • Assigning work contours • Re-evaluate estimates Creating the Project Schedule • Types of schedule constraints • Develop a strategy for handling the lead and lag time • When to use what type of schedule? • Role of milestones Review the Resource Allocations • Resource the schedule (staff) • Adjust the schedule to make best use of the resources - Levelling resources - What can happen? - When should you use levelling? Create a Master Schedule • Developing inter-project task dependencies • Defining the dependencies • Review calendar constraints Reporting From the Project Schedule • Customizing reporting procedures • Using visual reporting to create pivot tables and charts in MS Excel • Create cash flow reports Close ▲
	This program can be applied toward the: Project Management Certificate Project Management Certificate - Advanced
	Prerequisites MS Project for Project Managers: Using a Software Toolkit (or similar experience)



	Tue., Dec. 17 8:30am-4:30pm Location: UWM School of Continuing Education (Click link for directions) Instructor: Sandra Hoskins, ISP, PMP, ITCP Fee: $450 CEUs: 0.7/PDUs: 7 Program No. 5025-0517 Add To Registration Form Check Registration Form


	For more information, contact:
		Business & Management General Information, sce-bus@uwm.edu, 414-227-3220 Maribeth Sacho, Program Associate, msacho@uwm.edu, 414-227-3337 Anne O'Meara, Program Director, aomeara@uwm.edu, 414-227-3311

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