Rafael NegrettiGestor de Projetos| Veritate Projectos e FiscalizaçãoCuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
friends, I'm attending the Chapter São Paulo, a training for future trainers of the project managers. the course has the best project managers from Brazil as advisors and a coordination team from the best national MBAs. I will have to give a 25 minutes class and be evaluated by them. I chose Fundamentals of MS Project as theme of my class because is important for the construction of schedules and also certified by Microsoft Project. Well, i need your help, what do you think is essential about the tool that is indispensable to say in just 25 minutes (is the time I have)? Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Make sure you mention Resources Leveling and it's importance.
Good Luck Rafael. Saving Changes...
Phil JacklinFounder| OnTheSamePage (www.onthesamepage.io)Wellington, New Zealand
I'd stay away from tasks and resources. It's too easy and it's what everyone will do. Why don't you do something like how to do risk management in MS Project? Saving Changes...
Product Operations Program ManagerBarcelona, Cataluña, Spain
Perhaps you could provide some basics on MS Project Server and correlate it to managing international complex projects. 25 minutes go by very fast.Good luck! Saving Changes...
Include Gantt Chart if time permits. Saving Changes...
Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
Baselining
Reporting and Dashboards. Saving Changes...
AKSHAY JAINPlanning Group Leader| YOKOGAWA, BahrainGwalior, Mp, India
In place of "Fundamentals of MS projects" better change topic "Fundamentals of Scheduling" this will be more generic. You can use MS Project as tool. Saving Changes...
Some good feedback so far. On a technical point, I'd also cover the different views such as the very useful Resource View. On a practical point, I'd cover how you'd use the project plan once it its created, to assist you with managing the project (it's surprising how many PMs have a create-and-forget approach to planning). And on a learning point, I'd make sure they appreciate that it is a large and powerful software tool that takes quite a while to learn, and then point them towards some training sources where they can learn more about it.
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1 reply by Eduard Hernandez
Nov 01, 2016 11:10 AM
Eduard Hernandez
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Strongly agree. I have also seen several times PM that use MS Project as a planning tool and omit its power to track the project - thus, baselining, leveling, reporting, etc.
So you may consider using most of time explaining that MS Project is something else than just a tool to get a Gantt chart!
Product Operations Program ManagerBarcelona, Cataluña, Spain
Nov 01, 2016 10:56 AM
Replying to Tim PM
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Some good feedback so far. On a technical point, I'd also cover the different views such as the very useful Resource View. On a practical point, I'd cover how you'd use the project plan once it its created, to assist you with managing the project (it's surprising how many PMs have a create-and-forget approach to planning). And on a learning point, I'd make sure they appreciate that it is a large and powerful software tool that takes quite a while to learn, and then point them towards some training sources where they can learn more about it.
Strongly agree. I have also seen several times PM that use MS Project as a planning tool and omit its power to track the project - thus, baselining, leveling, reporting, etc.
So you may consider using most of time explaining that MS Project is something else than just a tool to get a Gantt chart! Saving Changes...
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