Course Objectives - To demonstrate some of the more advanced tools available in Project to enable delegates to produce more detailed plans and allow fine control over the time and costs associated with the Project. to show by means of examples and exercises how these additional skills give the user greater control and flexibility in managing Projects.

Who should Attend - The course is designed for users responsible for managing Projects that have had some experience in using Project 2000. Users who are interested in enhancing their usage of the application. Ideally delegates will have to have attended the ‘Project 2000 Introductory course.

Objectives - Upon completion of the course delegates will have learnt how Project tasks can be adjusted for driving by duration, work or resource usage. Adjustment of payment rates during a Project progress including overtime. Understanding of the Optimistic, Expected and Pessimistic Pert Chart Analysis. Comparison of the actual project against alternative version of the plan. Adjusting projects to allow for breaks in a task and for ‘loading’ the amount of work to be completed at different stages during individual task’s progress. Working with more than one project at a time. Customising the standard reports produced by Project.

	Personal Development
	Review the project that was created in the interval since the last course; review of Introduction Course

	More about Tasks
	Task types (Fixed Units, Fixed Duration, Fixed Work); priorities; Project settings affecting tasks and resources

	Resources
	Creating and Managing a Resource Pool; Updating and Refreshing Resource Pools; Closing Files with Shared Resources; Resource Cost bands; Overtime; assigning Resource Contours; more on Calendars and other Project time-frame issues

	Reporting
	A further look at Reporting; Custom Reports

	Tracking the Project
	Saving with a Baseline; Task Completion; notifying Task Status; using Outlook to notify Task Status; splitting; tracking; the Tracking Gantt Chart; adding more constraints (flexible and inflexible); Interim Plans; Variance Tables

	Templates
	Using a Built-in-Template; Creating a Template; swapping ready-built calendars, reports, etc from file to file within Project

	Customising Project
	Custom Views; Custom Filters; Custom Gantt Chart bars; Custom Tables; The Table Definition Screen; Customising Tables on Screen; Custom Fields; adding Custom Notes to charts; linking Custom Notes to tasks; The Organiser

	Multiple Project Management
	Linking between Projects; Resources in Linked Projects; Consolidated Projects

	Working with Excel
	Output Project data to Excel; Import Excel data to project; creating updateable links and charts from Excel