Introduction
What’s the value of project management software? How do you use the five-step planning model and the project lifecycle to ensure project success? How do you get a handle on the program’s navigation, buttons, tool bar and views?

Setting Up a New Project
Introducing the project calendar. How to change work time and use project statistics.

Building a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
What is a WBS? How to get a grip on tasks, summary tasks and milestones. What’s the difference between WBS numbering and outline numbering? How do you evaluate the WBS?

Establish Task Relationships 
Introducing task dependencies, networks and PERT charts. What are lag, lead and delay? How to format the network diagram.

Making Work Package Estimates 
How to create duration estimates and effort driven schedules. Introducing effort and task types.

Creating an Initial Schedule 
How to use critical path analysis to create a schedule. What are scheduling constraints? How do you “crash” a schedule?

Assigning and Leveling Resources 
How do you define resources? What is realistic resource planning? How to level resources in Microsoft® Project.

Formatting Output and Printing Reports
How do you use the Gantt wizard? Standard versus custom reports. How do you manage and integrate multiple project?