Overview
Welcome to Microsoft® Project® 2019 (On-Premises or Online Editions): Part 2. This course is designed to familiarize you with some of the advanced features and functions of Microsoft Project so you can use it effectively and efficiently in a real-world environment. In Microsoft® Project® 2019 (On-Premises or Online Editions): Part 1, you learned the basic features of Microsoft Project during the planning phase of a project. This course covers the advanced knowledge and skills a project manager needs to update a project plan in Project during the execution, monitoring, and controlling phases of a project. In other words, once your project plan is approved by the project sponsor, this course will enable you to manage the project so that it is completed on time, within budget, and according to scope. Note: This course is for anyone who has Project on the desktop, regardless of whether they purchased an “on-premises” edition or subscribed to a “cloud-based” (online) edition. Most project managers and project team members use the desktop application, so that is the main focus of this course. The main features of the online app are presented in an appendix.
Pre-requisites
To ensure your success in this course, you should have basic project management knowledge and skills. Additionally, you should be able to create a new project plan, manage time in a project plan, manage tasks in a project plan, manage resources in a project plan, and share a project plan using Microsoft Project. The following Logical Operations course can help you in meeting this requirement: Microsoft® Project® 2019 (On-Premises or Online Editions): Part 1 • Using Microsoft® Windows® 10 • Microsoft® Windows® 10: Transition from Windows® 7 • Microsoft® Office Word: Part 1 —choose from 2016, 2019, or Office 365™ edition • Microsoft® Office Excel®: Part 1 —choose from 2016, 2019, or Office 365™ edition • Microsoft® Office PowerPoint®: Part 1 —choose from 2016, 2019, or Office 365™ edition
Audience
This course is designed for a person with an understanding of project management concepts and who is responsible for creating and maintaining project plans. Target students will be looking to acquire the advanced knowledge and skills needed to update a project plan in Microsoft Project during the execution, monitoring, and controlling phases of a project.