PRINCE2 Planning and Progress Controls Using MS Project

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Course Overview

PRINCE2™ is a process based project management method that is easily tailored and scaleable for the management of all types of projects within your organisation. PRINCE2 is the de facto standard for project management within the UK and Europe and is rapidly gaining the same status within Australia, being widely used across government and commercial sectors alike.

When applying PRINCE2™ to plan and deliver new business products in a controlled and reliable manner, many project managers will use planning software, such as Microsoft Project™. This intensive, competency-based course delivers practical skills in applying PRINCE2 Planning and Control processes using Microsoft Project™. Short teaching sessions support computer-based exercises and case studies using Microsoft Project™ and Excel™ for performance graph creation.  The course provides the theoretical knowledge, management skills and computer application skills needed to plan a project and manage project progress effectively.

Course Objectives

The primary objective of this course is to provide PRINCE2-trained project managers and team managers with the essential skills to create and maintain effective plans and control work progress, using Microsoft Project™.

On completion of this course, you are expected to be able to:

• Understand common planning and progress control terminology;
• Describe the different application of and produce PERT and Gantt charts;
• Be competent to use PRINCE2 processes and techniques, with Microsoft Project ™, to create task and resource schedules for stage and team plans;
• Complete resource sheets and apply task usage and resource usage tables in Microsoft Project™; 
• Describe and use various format and display options in Microsoft Project™;
• Understand how to set up and produce a Work Progress Report;
• Establish a simple and effective progress control metric for medium and large projects, using Microsoft Project™ and Microsoft Excel™;
• Assess work progress against a plan and take appropriate corrective action;
• Manage and compare baseline and active plans.

 Topics Covered

The following topics will be covered:

• Introduction to Planning
• Planning processes and techniques  (including two exercises)
• An introduction to and overview of Microsoft Project ™
• Completing a schedule using Microsoft Project™ (guided case study)
• Assessing progress theory, concepts and techniques
•  Setting up a performance graph (guided case study)
• Measuring progress (guided case study)
• Summary and self-assessment.