Course Description:
This course introduces students to Microsoft Office Project 2007. Students will gain hands-on experience building and managing a project plan, managing resources and analyzing allocation, creating views and reports as well as working with options and settings. PMRG will teach you how to effectively navigate Microsoft Office Project and utilize all of its time-saving features. Enjoy a presentation-style course with hands-on workshops and class exercises. A course manual will be provided.

Related Certification and Courses:
This introductory course prepares students for the Microsoft exam 70-632 TS: Microsoft Office Project 2007, Managing Projects which counts as credit toward the Microsoft certification Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Project Management with Microsoft Office Project 2007.

Prerequisites:
This is an introductory course.  No Project experience is necessary.

Intended Audience:
This course is designed for:

• Individuals who are required to use Microsoft Project (2003 or 2007) who have little or no experience using Microsoft Project
• Individuals who are new to or want to learn about the project management profession
• Individuals who want to take exam 70-632 TS: Microsoft Office Project 2007, Managing Projects
  

Course Objectives:
In this course, students will learn how to:

• Understand project management terminology, processes and knowledge areas
• Easily navigate through Microsoft Office Project
• Build a Work Breakdown Structure
• Create and modify project tasks
• Create and manage resources
• Understand dependencies and constraints
• Set personal preferences with Tools\Options
• Optimize, baseline and track against a baseline
• Understand the various types of views in Project
• Generate project reports