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Learn the key techniques to effectively manage projects using Microsoft Project Server 2007. In this hands-on course with intensive skills training and test-preparation exercises, you'll learn to create project calendars and resources; appropriately identify, enter, organize, and relate project tasks; assign resources and costs; baseline your project; use different views within the software to understand budget, status, and allocations; and run standard and customized reports.

Pass the exam at a Prometric location using the exam voucher we'll provide, and earn the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Enterprise Project Management with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 certification.

This course incorporates material from the Official Microsoft Learning Product 5928: Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Managing Projects.

Highlights

• Get started with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
• Initiate projects
• Understand the project planning processes
• Plan projects through scope and schedule management
• Plan projects through staffing management plans
• Plan resource assignments for projects
• Plan projects through cost, risk, and other planning documents
• Execute projects through processes, resources, and deliverables
• Execute projects by managing timesheets and personal settings
• Monitor and control projects by tracking task and project progress
• Monitor and control projects through measuring project performance and reporting progress
• Close projects

Course Outline

1. Getting Started with Office Project Server 2007

• Enterprise Project Management Context
• Discovering Office Project Server 2007
• Differentiating the Users of Office Project Server 2007
• Working with Office Project Professional 2007 and Office Project Server 2007

2. Initiating Projects

• Initiating Processes
• Differentiating the Initiating Processes in Project Professional 2007 and Project Web Access
• Managing Initiating Processes by Using Project Web Access
• Managing Documents in Office Project Web Access

3. Planning Projects-Context and Framework

• The Project Management Plan
• Differentiating the Office Project Server 2007 Client Software

4. Planning Projects-Scope and Schedule Management

• Developing Components of the Scope Management and Schedule Management Plans
• Working with Deliverables

5. Planning Projects-Staffing Management Plan

• Building a Project Team
• Managing Resource Availability

6. Planning Projects-Resource Assignments

• Understanding the Assignment Cycle
• Resolving Resource Overallocation

7. Planning Projects-Cost, Risk, and Other Management Plans

• Developing Components of the Cost Management Plan
• Developing Components of the Risk Management Plan
• Linking Planning Documents and Using the Team Discussion Feature

8. Executing Projects-Processes, Resources, and Deliverables

• Executing Processes
• Managing Resources and Deliverables

9. Executing Projects-Managing Timesheets and Personal Settings

• Working with Timesheets
• Reporting Administrative Time
• Configuring Personal Settings

10. Monitoring and Controlling Projects-Tracking Task and Project Progress

• The Monitoring and Controlling Processes
• Working with Task Progress and Updates in Project Web Access
• Working with Task Progress by Using Office Project 2007
• Tracking and Viewing Task Information by Using Outlook 2007

11. Monitoring and Controlling Projects-Measuring Performance and Reporting Progress

• Status Reports
• Reviewing Performance Metrics and Progress Reports

12. Closing Projects

• The Closing Process
• Supporting The Closing Process

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