PROJECT ADVANCED - RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Course Overview

The Microsoft Project Advanced Resource Management course is designed for students wanting to learn how to specifically manage project resources and costs. This course opens up a whole new world of underutilised tools and techniques that only experienced project managers undertake. Students who attend this course will gain an in-depth knowledge of creating and managing project resources, pooling resources across projects, scheduling recourses, managing resource calendars, dealing with resource conflicts and overallocations, working with various types of resources, assigning costs to resources and resource reporting. Our instructors will share with you extremely valuable industry tips and tricks for you to be able to confidently fully manage multiple projects.

Who Should Attend

This course builds on your previous knowledge of setting up and managing project timelines and tasks. Students who attend this course will typically already be managing and reporting on basic projects and want to learn how to setup and manage resources and costs. This part of Microsoft Project is the other half of Microsoft Project engine that is somewhat underutilised due to the additional level of complexity. Once a student has learned to master this area of Microsoft Project your ability to manage projects in the future will far exceed the average project manager.

Course Prerequisites

Students should have completed the Microsoft Project Essentials Timeline and Task Management Course and can confidently setup and manage a project with regards to tasking and timeline management. Students are expected to be able to setup a project, create and manage calendars, link tasks, work with the Gantt chart and be able to setup and manage reports.

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Create a Resource Pool

Why use Microsoft Project?
Course Prerequisites
A Note to the Trainer
Project Resource Views
Enter Project Work Resources
Update the Other Fields
Enter Project Material Resources
Enter Project Cost Resources
Review Resource Information

Assign Project Resources

Assign Resources Using a Dialogue Box
Assign Resources Using a Modified Calendar
Update a Resource Calendar
Assign a Resource at Less Than 100%
Assigning Multiple Resources to a Task
Assign a Resource After a Task has Elapsed
Remove a Resource from an Existing Task
Managing Effort Driven Scheduling
Managing Resource Driven Scheduling
Change a Task Type
Assign a Material Resources to a Task
Assign Cost Resources to a Task
Assign Resources to the Team Planner

Level Overallocated Resources

Identify Overallocated Resources
Automated Resource Levelling
View the Levelling Gantt Chart
Clear Automatic Resource Levelling
Correct an Overallocation using Resource Driven Scheduling
Managing Manual Resource Levelling
Locate Under Allocated Resources
Task Separation
Substitute an Overallocated Task Resource
Managing Time Between Multiple Tasks
Split an Existing Project Task
Team Planner Levelling
Split Work Using Team Planner

Resource Costs

View the Project Statistics
Set Fixed Costs for Revisited Tasks
Standard Hourly Rates for Resources
Overtime Hourly Rates for Resources
Set a Cost Per Use for a Resource
View the Total Cost by Resource
Increase the Rate Partway Through the Project
Set Different Rates for Different Tasks
Set the Baseline
Tracking - A More Realistic Method
Enter Work Details using the Task Form

Sharing Resources Across Projects

Create a Shared Resource Pool
Sharing Resources with Other Projects
Assign a Shared Resource
Assign a Shared Resource Using Team Planner
Resolve an Overallocation in a Shared Resource Pool
View a Master Project File
Break the Resource Sharing

Resource Reporting

Filter Tasks by Resource
Highlight Filters
Filter Project Resources
View a Built-In Report
Use an Excel Chart for Visual Reporting
Use a Visio Drawing for Visual Reporting