Microsoft Project Advanced

Course Overview

Microsoft Project Advanced

Fully understand how to manage progress, resources and costings and share resources across projects. 

Course Content

Module 1 - Revision of Intermediate Topics  

• Managing Progress 
• Working with the status date 
• Updating project progress 
• Inactive tasks  
• Rescheduling outstanding work 
• Setting task reminders 
• Updating actual progress
• Working with progress lines  

Module 2 - Managing Resources and Project Costings 

• Using the task inspector to resolve allocation issues 
• Delaying resource work and assigning overtime 
• Working with work contours 
• Escalating resource costs 
• Adding fixed task costs  
• Viewing costs and updating actual costs 
• Working with the earned value table
• Reporting project costings

Module 3 - Sharing Resources 

• Creating a resource pool
• Sharing resources across projects 
• Viewing resource allocations 
• Updating resource pools and sharer files 

Module 4 - Creating Custom Projects and Templates 

• Creating custom calendars 
• Assigning calendars to tasks and resources 
• Creating, editing and copying tables 
• Custom fields 
• Sharing elements across project files 
• Modifying the global template 
• Creating and using custom templates