Applying MS Project to Plan, Schedule
and Control Your Projects
A critical tool for project management effectiveness
While this course is not required to complete the Masters Certificate in Project Management, we strongly recommend that participants understand how to use this software. MS Project is an invaluable tool on the job and will be used extensively throughout our courses, especially in a simulated project during the Project Management Capstone course.
This is not your traditional “point and click” training. We will teach you how to apply MS Project to plan an actual project, show you how to make effective presentations to project stakeholders, and help you prepare multiple solutions to produce a project’s deliverables.
Learn how to:
- Create a project plan and project calendar
- Create a work breakdown structure (WBS) and set task relationships
- Develop time-based estimates for resources
- Develop a project schedule, then analyze and optimize it
- Assign project resources and adjust for resource contentions
- Finalize and review a project plan
- Update a project plan with actual data
- Set a baseline and track project performance
- Create reports for presentations to stakeholders
Please bring a laptop computer with Microsoft® Project 2003 to the class. If you are not able to bring a computer, please contact Philana Friede at 608-441-7313.
Course Bonus! All students will receive a copy of MS Project Lesson Workbook, an invaluable reference tool to help you apply course content back at your job.
“After taking the ‘Applying MS Project to Plan, Schedule and Control Your Projects’ course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I felt much better equipped to complete a major project at my workplace which required 6,000 hours, four months and approximately 25 resources. Our project plan worked very well — we used a resource pool, leveling, the whole ball of wax that I learned in the course. It was pretty sweet! We’ve never been able to so accurately, confidently communicate a project’s progress. We rolled the project out on time — a first for us on this size of project! Thank you!”
Josh Jandrain, Project Manager, Delta Dental of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI