Project Planning & Control Using Microsoft Project
Course Outline
- Project Management Concepts & Methods
- What is Project? Understand Construction Project Lifecycles and its process.
- Recognize Project Planning and Controlling techniques and methods and its development history.
- Common conceptions and misconceptions in Project Planning and Controlling
- Getting Started with Microsoft Project©
- Understand what work programme is all about, and the clockwork behind Microsoft Project©.
- Initial preparations: abstracting project data from drawings and Bill of Quantity.
- Exploring Microsoft Project© interface and its basic functions and customize layout.
- Activity Scheduling and Networking
- Setting up primary working calendars and secondary or multiple calendars.
- Develop WBS, work groups or phases, cascading activities or tasks and Gantt chart.
- Create new activities, insert activity details and build its interdependent relationships.
- Resource Assignment and Allocation
- Understand resource type and its capability.
- Correlate resource productivity with task duration
- See resources used in a project, which task it is responsible for and total quantity needed.
- Optimizing Work Programme
- Why critical tasks are critical and how to identify them?
- What is the difference between slack and lag and how to use them?
- Improvise critical tasks to optimize project duration and meet project completion date.
- Generate Project Price S-Curve Chart
- Common S-Curve used in Malaysia construction industry and its misconception.
- Extracting project price from Bill of Quantity and incorporate it into Microsoft Project©
- Generate S-Curve automatically using Microsoft Project© tool or manually with Microsoft Excel©.
- Tracking & Interpreting Project Performance
- Actual vs. Planned: spot the difference.
- Know the etiquette of on-going project data collection and archiving.
- Create baseline, add actual data, compare them and interpret project performance.
- Work Programme Printing and Security
- Identify your audience and crucial information to be shown.
- Show, hide or rearrange work programme layout and appearance.
- Tweak printing format and protect project file
