Microsoft Project 2007: Level 1 Course

Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 acts as a tool that assists you in managing your projects.

Overview:

In this course, you will create and modify a project plan. You will create a project plan containing tasks, organise these tasks in a work breakdown structure containing task relationships, create and assign resources, and finalise the project to implement the project plan.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Explore the Microsoft Office Project environment and the various views in which you can verify project information
• Create a new project plan
• Manage tasks by organising them and setting task relationships
• Manage resources in a project plan
• Finalise the project plan

Course pre-requisites:

Students enrolled for this course should have the following:

• An understanding of project management concepts
• Knowledge of a Windows operating system, either Windows XP or Windows Vista

The following would be helpful, but are not required:

• Project Management Fundamentals Part 1 and 2 (Element K course)
• Harvard Manage Mentor: Project Management (Element K course)
• A basic knowledge of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel

The Programme Topic Areas are:

• Getting started with Microsoft Project
• Creating a project plan
• Managing tasks in a project plan
• Managing resources in a project plan
• Finalising the project plan