INTRODUCTION

Your ability as a project manager to demonstrate best practices in project management - both on the job and through professional certification is becoming the standard to compete in today's fast paced and highly technical workplace.

Project management is a complex field that can involve subjective decision making. However participants will learn how to use Microsoft Project to assist them with project planning, executing, monitoring and controlling a project.

It is a hands-on training with live discussion on project management aspects/issues with participants from various backgrounds & organizations.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES 

Upon completion of the hands on workshop, participants will be able to:

• Use MS Project as a tool to plan, execute and manage effectively their projects.
• Get the knowledge about Project lifecycle according to PMI^â standards.
• Balance between competing demands (Scope, Time, Cost, Resources) while scheduling their projects.
• Plan projects, assign resources, update projects, print reports and much more.

Dr. AlBahar, President of PROMIS, Project Management Engineering Systems, is an expert in construction contracts and claims analysis and project management tools and techniques. His recent consulting work is focusing on analysis of delay claims using CPM schedules and amicable settlement of disputes between Clients and Contractors. Dr. AlBahar is a frequent regional and international speaker on all subjects related to project management, construction contracts, tendering procedures, claims analysis and evaluation, contract administration and management, and value engineering.

Dr. AlBahar is a registered arbitrator in the Emirate of Dubai, U.A.E., the State of Kuwait, and was a full time professor at Kuwait University where he taught project management, contracts and specifications, construction management, construction methods, surveying, legal, social and ethical aspects of engineering. He was formerly a marketing and business development manager for Morrison Knudsen Corporation in San Francisco, California

Dr. AlBahar has conducted over 500 public and in-house training courses in the last 25 years on subjects related to contracts, claims, project management, PMP Exam Preparation Workshops, value engineering, budgeting and cost estimating and effective project administrative procedures. His most recent consulting agreement, and as part of team, was to review and rewrite the General Conditions of Contracts and Consultancy Agreement (both General and Particular) for Dubai Municipality and Public Works in Abu Dhabi. He is a Contract Advisor for Qatar Petroleum, Doha, Qatar.

DAY ONE

INTRODUCTION TO MS PROJECT

• Understanding Project Management Basics (Fundamentals)
• Managing your projects with MS^â Projects
• MS^â Project Terms
• Networking Crunching to achieved targeted end date

INITIATING A PROJECT

• Before you start
• Setting the calendar
• Starting a Project
• Preparing Tasks

MANAGING A SIMPLE PROCESS

• Getting Started with Project
• Creating a Task List
• Setting Up Resources
• Assigning Resources to Tasks  ­
• Formatting and Printing Your Plan
• Tracking Progress on Tasks

DAY TWO

PLANNING THE PROJECT

• Defining Tasks
• Outlining the Tasks
• Setting Tasks Durations
• Defining Tasks Sequencing
• Assigning Resources
• Setting Constraints

ADVANCED PROJECT SCHEDULING

• Fine-Tuning Task Details
• Fine-Tuning Resource, and Assignment Details
• Fine-Tuning the Project Plan
• Organizing and Formatting Project Details
• Printing Project Information
• Publishing Project Information Online
• Sharing Project Information with Other Programs
• Tracking Progress on Tasks and Assignments
• Viewing and Reporting Project Status
• Getting your Project Back on Track

DAY THREE

REVIEWING THE PLAN

• Reviewing WBS
• Reviewing Critical Path
• Reviewing Cost
• Reviewing Overallocated Resources

SPECIAL SUBJECTS

• Applying Advanced Formatting
• Customizing Project
• Measuring Performance with Earned Value Analysis
• Consolidating Projects and Resources 

Resource & Cost Management

• Defining Resources
• Setting up Resource database for labor, equipment & material resources
• Define Resource availability, rate table & working time
• Resource Allocation Methods
• Resource Allocation & Task types
• Effort Driven Schedule
• Resource Analysis
• Check Resource Estimates
• Study Resource Requirement against Availability
• Identify Resource Over/Under/Uneven allocation
  • Resource allocation views
  • Resolving Resource Conflicts
  • Resource levelling
  • Analyze Project cost (Fixed and Variable)

DAY FOUR

MONITORING & TRACKING THE PROJECT

• Applying Views
• Using Filters
• Using Groups
• Tracing the progress against baseline
• Progress Lines
• Variance Analysis
• Tracking bars & tables
  • Tracking resource & cost
  • Completion Variance & Earned Value Variance Analysis
  • Analyse activity slippage and cost variances
  • Task Percent Complete and Physical % complete

DAY FIVE

CONTROLLING THE PROJECT

• Saving Baseline
• Updating and Tracking  Actual Work Progress
• Compare baseline to current plan / schedule

Reports

• Printing Reports
• Predefined Reports
• Custom made reports
• Graphical Reports through excel