Microsoft® Project 2013

This project management training will acquaint students with skills required to qualify Exam 74-343 and earn the Microsoft Specialist credential. Learn the following skills in this course:

• Creating and initializing a new project: Learn how to create and maintain calendars, custom fields and customize settings for the project.
• Creating and modifying task based schedules: Define project properties, task structure, create a schedule model, and manage shared projects.
• Managing assignments and resources efficiently: Manage resource allocation using Team Planner, and assign costs by applying resource-rate table.
• Tracking and analyzing the progress of a project: Understand how to create and maintain baselines, monitor and compare the progress of the project; and resolve any issues in the schedule.
• Communicating project related information: Learn about making the project information available for reporting, sharing and viewing. The Microsoft Specialist: Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013 certification offers immense learning scope to project managers and IT professionals who want to improve their project performance and reap benefits of utilizing an easy to manage scheduling tool.

• Chapter 1: Microsoft Project, Project Management and you
• Chapter 2: A guided tour of Project
• Chapter 3: Starting a New Plan
• Chapter 4: Building a task list
• Chapter 5: Setting Up Resources
• Chapter 6: Assigning Resources to Tasks
• Chapter 7: Formatting and Sharing Your Plan
• Chapter 8: Tracking Progress
• Chapter 9: Advanced task scheduling
• Chapter 10: Fine-Tuning Task Details
• Chapter 11: Fine-Tuning Resource & Assignment Details
• Chapter 12: Fine-Tuning the Project Plan
• Chapter 13: Organizing Project Details
• Chapter 14: Tracking Progress on Tasks and Assignments
• Chapter 15: Viewing and Reporting Project Status
• Chapter 16: Getting Your Project Back on Track
• Chapter 17: Applying Advanced Formatting and Printing
• Chapter 18: Advanced Report format
• Chapter 19: Customizing Project
• Chapter 20: Sharing Project Information with Other Programs
• Chapter 21: Consolidating Projects and Resources