Course 700 - Contractor V5

This course provides hands-on training for contractors. It examines how to plan, schedule, control, and analyze projects.

Learning Outcomes:

• Create a project including activities and resources
• Schedule a project, and determine how to effectively optimize a project

At the completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Create a project
• Assign a calendar to a project
• Add activities and relationships to a project
• Organize a project using activity codes
• Perform manual schedule calculations
• Apply constraints to an activity
• Modify activity information
• Track progress on an activity
• Create and customize layouts
• Apply filters to a project
• Customize the appearance of a project for reporting purposes
• Import and export project data

Course Outline

Day One:

• Introduction
• Navigating
• Creating a project and Work Breakdown Structure
• Creating Activities
• Creating Relationships
• Scheduling the Project
• Assigning Constraints to a Project

Day Two:

• Assigning Constraints to a Project
• Adding Resources to a Project
• Optimizing the Project
• Baseline  the Project
• Executing the Project
• Creating Output
• Customizing Projects

Hands on Workshops & Exercises:

• Creating a project
• Modify Calendars
• Adding activities and activity codes
• Defining activity codes
• Creating relationships in an activity
• Modifying a project
• Defining resources to a project
• Assigning resources to an activity
• Optimizing the schedule
• Tracking project progress