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Managing Projects with Project Online/Project Server Duration: 3 Days PDU Credits: 21 Target Audience: Program managers, project managers, planners, schedulers and any individuals that need to create or maintain schedules in Microsoft Project Server or Project Online. Description This 3-day course is designed to provide practical, hands-on experience in the creation, management, and reporting of project schedules using Project Professional and Project Server. This course teaches the processes of project scheduling and control, and how to implement those processes in Project Professional and Project Server. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand basic project management terminology. • Understand the Project Server, Project Web App (PWA) and Project Professional

environment. • Use the PWA interface. • Initiate projects. • Identify the critical components of the project scope documentation that drive the

structure of your project schedule. • Extract key milestones and project constraints and incorporate them into the project

schedule. • Define and sequence tasks.

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• Identify the tasks that are most likely to cause a project to be late through Critical Path Methodology analysis.

• Understand Enterprise Resources and build a Resource Team. • Plan and manage resources. • Use Resource Engagements. • Set project baselines and publish projects. • Track and manage timesheets and project progress. • Understand how to analyze resulting impacts to determine schedule health. • Define custom global objects to enable analysis. • Work with master projects for multiple project analysis. • Collaborate on projects. • Create project reports and understand the audience for each. • Work with additional PWA functionality.

Course Contents Module 1 – Introduction 1. Introductions

2. Course Objectives and Agenda

3. Project Management Process Groups

4. Project Life Cycle

5. Project Server Terminology and Environment Simulation Project – Module 1

• PWA/Project Professional o Navigating in PWA

Module 2 – Project Initiation and Project Planning – Work Scope and Schedule Modeling 1. Initiating Projects

2. Schedule Management Plan

3. Deliverables

4. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

5. Working with Tables, Filters and Views

6. Schedule Models

7. Creating Tasks

8. Task Inputs

9. Linking Tasks

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Simulation Project – Module 2

• Review Case Study

• Case Study Roles

• Scope Statement

• Work Breakdown Structure

• Task Definition

• Develop Schedule Model

PWA/Project Professional

• Initiating the Project

• Working with Project Professional in Project Server

• Working with the Project Professional Interface

• Working with Tables, Filters and Views

• Entering the WBS

• Entering Tasks

• Entering Links

Module 3 – Project Planning cont’d – Critical Path Methodology (CPM) and Resource Management 1. Critical Path Method

1.1. Forward Pass

1.2. Backward Pass

1.3. Total Slack

2. Near Critical Paths

3. Resource Planning Process

4. Building the Team

5. Task Types

6. Resource Engagements

7. Resource Availability

8. Resource Analysis and Schedule Impact

9. Resource Leveling Concepts

Simulation Project – Module 3

• Forward Pass/Backward Pass

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• Total Float/Critical Path

• PWA/Project Professional o Analyzing the critical and near critical paths

o Building the Team

o Assigning Resources

o Requesting Resources

o Analyzing Resources

o Leveling Resources

Module 4 – Project Execution 1. Project Baselines

2. Publishing Projects

3. Project Communications

4. Communications Management Plan Simulation Project – Module 4

• Communications Management Plan

• PWA/Project Professional o Setting Baselines

o Publishing Projects Module 5 – Project Monitoring and Control, and Project Closeout, Additional PWA Functionality 1. Performance Measurement

2. Tracking Time in PWA

3. Tracking Task Progress in PWA

4. Approving Progress

5. Impact Analysis

6. Project Variances

7. Change Control

8. Schedule Compression

9. Master Projects

10. Project Reporting

11. Project Closeout

12. Additional PWA Functionality

12.1. Working in the Project Center

Ten Six Consulting LLC | T: (703) 910-2600 F: (866) 780-8996 | 576 N. Birdneck Rd, #626 Virginia Beach, VA 23451

12.2. Master Projects

12.3. Working in the Resource Center

12.4. Working with Project Sites

12.5. Personal Settings Simulation Project – Module 5

• Status

• Changes

• Impact Analysis

• Schedule Compression

• PWA/Project Professional o Entering Status in PWA

o Impact Analysis

o Setting Tasks to Inactive

o Project Reports

§ Schedule Reports

§ Dashboard Reports

o Additional PWA Functionality

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