Course description
Microsoft Project Blue Belt® 2013
This course introduces Project Server 2013 features that expedite scheduling projects and simplify managing tasks within an enterprise environment. Learn different aspects of Project Server and their benefits to varying roles in the enterprise, and gain hands-on experience and insights on best practices from SMEs around the world.
This course introduces Project Server 2013 features that expedite scheduling projects and simplify managing tasks within an enterprise environment. Learn different aspects of Project Server and their benefits to varying roles in the enterprise, and gain hands-on experience and insights on best practices from SMEs around the world.
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What you Will Learn
You’ll learn how to:
- Identify the project’s life cycle
- Understand the Enterprise Project Management (EPM) environment
- Apply the basic project management principles to selecting, initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing your Project 2013 schedules
- Take advantage of new features
- Explain Project Server 2013 views and project sites
- Meet deadlines and budget restrictions
- Keep the workloads of your resources within their available limits
- Efficiently update your schedule
- Take advantage of the standard reports, custom views, and visual reports for your projects
- Take a brief look at the Business Intelligence potential
- Efficiently and effectively manage your project(s) and programs
- Work comfortably within Project Server 2013 or Project Online
Training Course Content
Getting Started with Microsoft® Project Server 2013
- Describing the EPM context
- Discovering Project Server 2013 and Project Online
- Differentiating the users of Project Server 2013
- Working with Project Professional 2013 and Project Server 2013
Recognizing the Life Cycle within EPM Projects and Portfolio Management
- Portfolio management and governance
- Originating new initiatives within EPTs and workflows
- Prioritizing initiatives, analyzing scenarios, optimizing, and selecting the portfolio
Initiating Projects
- Initiating processes with Project Professional, SharePoint lists, Enterprise Projects, and Resource Plans
- Importing projects and managing project owner and permissions
Planning Projects – Scope and Schedule Management
- Planning context and framework
- Scheduling in PWA
- Using the Deliverables feature
Planning Projects – Staffing Management Plan
- Building a project team
- Managing resource availability
- Reviewing the assignment cycle
- Resolving resource overallocation
Planning Projects – Cost Components, Baseline, and Consolidated Schedules
- Developing components of the Cost Management Planning processes
- Working with the baseline in projects and programs or master schedules
Improving the Collaboration in the Project Sites
- Creating the Project Sites
- Developing components of the Risk Management Plan and Issues Tracking
- Linking planning documents
- Additional apps and customization
Executing Projects
- Understanding executing processes
- Managing resources using Build Team and other features
- Working with timesheets
- Reporting administrative time
- Configuring personal settings
Monitoring and Controlling Projects – Tracking Task and Project Progress
- Understanding the Monitoring and Controlling processes
- Task progress and updates in PWA including considerations for different tracking methods
- Task progress and updates in Project Professional 2013
Monitor and Control Projects – Measuring Performance and Reporting Progress
- Understanding status reports
- Reviewing performance metrics and progress reports
- Taking advantage of preloaded reports at the Business Intelligence Center
- Considerations for defining custom reports
Closing Projects
- Reviewing the closing processes and closing tasks to updates
- Supporting the closing process
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