• Overview of project management concepts that apply to Microsoft Project
• Introducing the Microsoft Project interface
• Customising the Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar

Building a project plan

• Producing a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Entering tasks, summary tasks and milestones
• Estimating and entering task duration
• Establishing relationships between tasks
• Working with different types of dependencies
• Adjusting the project schedule to target specific dates

Scheduling essentials

• Leveraging manual and automatic scheduling
• Conceptualising and identifying the critical path
• Analysing and managing the schedule

Optimising the project plan

• Implementing lag and lead
• Applying deadline dates to the project plan
• Setting, locating and removing task constraints
• Managing master and subprojects
• Controlling Your Project Plan

Configuring calendars

• Creating new and updating existing calendars
• Analysing the relationship between project, task and resource calendars
• Changing default calendar options

Applying calendars to projects, tasks and resources

• Assigning calendars appropriately
• Updating your project plan due to calendar changes

Sharing project calendars

• Saving calendar changes to the Global template
• Sharing and organising calendars

Preparing for tracking

• Validating the project plan
• Establishing the baseline

Tracking task progress

• Identifying key steps in the tracking process
• Updating the project plan with tracking data
• Analysing variance against the project plan
• Creating graphical status indicators

Troubleshooting schedule problems

• Reviewing project task updates for timeline problems
• Resolving issues with the project schedule

Creating and assigning resources

• Defining work, material and cost resources
• Assigning resources to tasks
• Utilising budget resources
• Configuring resource pools

Managing and tracking resource assignments

• Troubleshooting resource assignments
• Investigating and resolving resource overallocations
• Tracking assignment progress
• Leveraging the Usage views to manage assignments

Identifying communication needs

• Defining stakeholder groups
• Identifying project communication requirements

Creating reports

• Examining basic and dynamic report types
• Designing dashboard indicator reports
• Building custom tables, filters and reports
• Creating Visual Report templates
• Automating reporting tasks via macros

Interacting with other applications

• Sharing data using the Timeline view
• Overview of collaboration features
• Employing import and export maps