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Microsoft Project Training

November 22, 2024 11:00 AM - December 13, 2024 2:00 PM (EST)

Description

Harness the power and possibilities of Microsoft Project scheduling software to fulfill your construction projects’ highest potential. Delivered from a construction scheduling perspective, this course offers 4 three-hour sessions and arms you with the fundamental skills required to build and maneuver from screen to screen while learning the essentials of creating and building a baseline schedule, how to add resources and costs, update and recover a project schedule in the most efficient and effective manner and to monitor and manage changes to the construction schedule. What projects don’t deal with changes? In order to effectively manage construction projects, we need to be able to visualize, communicate and calculate the impact of changes on Time, Cost, and Quality. Access to follow-up videos are provided to help you with your training beyond completion of the course.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Suitable for anyone involved in or interested in the management of construction projects who wants to learn how today’s industry leaders leverage Microsoft Project to design seamless agile schedules.  Participants leave this course with practice exercises and YouTube video links to ensure this material sticks long term.  

 

COURSE INSTRUCTOR
Tom Stephenson, MBA, CM-LEAN, PMP
Tom Stephenson is a national award-winning professor and best-selling author whose background in education spans nearly three decades. His diverse teaching disciplines include construction project management, business management, architecture, carpentry, and brick and stone masonry. As a dual-professional, Tom is called upon by industry leaders to translate knowledge, reinvigorate corporate culture, and inspire innovation in emerging and established companies across Canada. Before breaking into the academic realm, Tom acquired more than a decade of practical project-management experience, operating a mid-sized Toronto-based general contracting firm. He is also the author of the newly released Planning, Scheduling, and Control of Construction Projects with American Technical Publishers and the four best-selling editions of Understanding Construction Drawings for Housing and Small Buildings with Nelson Publishing Canada. A champion of change management, Tom takes pride in helping students and businesses navigate uncharted territories, take calculated risks and rise above the status quo. 




Time

This fully virtual course will run for four consecutive Fridays.  

November 22 - December 13, 2024.

 All sessions will be from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Instructor: Tom Stephenson

 

COURSE CONTENT
Inputting activities and durations
Linking tasks, identification of critical path
Recurring tasks
Maneuvering the many sheets and tables in MS Project
Constraints
Creating lead and lag
Developing a work breakdown structure
Identification of the critical path
Identification of float 
Adjusting the time scale
Adding notes
Insertion of columns and customization of screen
Filtering and sorting
Development of calendars and non-working days
Saving the project as a baseline schedule
Use of templates as a checklist Creating a resource table
Setting up maximum capacity for resources
Enter pay rates
Payment Accrue                                                                                   
Adjust working time in a resource calendar
Effort driven scheduling and what you should watch out for.
Assign resources to tasks
Assign cost resources to tasks
Assign material resources to tasks
Adding and levelling resources
Adding costs to a schedule                               
How to create a resource pool
Filter project by resources
Filter calendar view for resources
Cost Reports
Creating a resource table
Review of resource form
Review of the Cost Table
Review of resource cost table
Introduction to Cost Variances Updating the Schedule
Inserting a status date
Updating and inserting actual dates
Marking activities on track
Use of the tracking Gantt chart
Use of the variance table
Review of Cost impacts
Customizing tables for updating
Review of variances in the resource view 
Rescheduling work
Recovery of time
Utilizing the direct method of recovery
File naming protocols, a process to documentation
Review of updates
Creating a fragnet
Inserting a change into the schedule
Managing multiple changes
Identifying the impact of the change
Using drawing tools to identify and clarify the change impact 
Best Practices in project recovery
Using drawing tools to identify and clarify claims
Rescheduling work
Recovery of time
Tracking weather delays
Utilizing the direct method of recovery
File naming protocol
Best Practices in project recovery
Using the time liner
Creating a Multiple Project File
Creating a Resource Pool



Pricing

The course cost is $300+HST per person with all  funds being returned to MCAT contractor members in good standing. Contractor members in good standing will need to have registrants attend all sessions for full refund.

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Mechanical Contractors Association of Toronto
Name: Tricia Bloomfield
Phone: 4164919004
Email: bloomfield@mcatoronto.org
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