Microsoft Project Training
April 5, 2024 9:00 AM - April 26, 2024 12:00 PM (EDT)
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. |
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.
, ON Canada
This fully virtual course will run for four consecutive Fridays.
April 5 - April 26, 2024.
All sessions will be from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 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 |
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