This course delivers the fundamental scheduling skills that you need to manage projects successfully with Microsoft Office Project 2007, and prepares you for the Managing Enterprise Projects using Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 course. Mastering the Microsoft Project scheduling engine is the key to enjoying your work with the software. This course shows you how to drive the tool through each stage of the project management life cycle and offers multiple best practices for using the software while defining, planning, executing, and closing a project. This course also teaches you how to use all of the new features included in the software. Framed around PMIs project life cycle, the course content is methodology-agnostic and focuses on hands-on learning methods. 

Audience:

Everyone who manages projects using Microsoft Office Project 2007 should take this course, whether in an enterprise or desktop-only environment. We target this course at the needs of full-time project managers, as well as those who function as project schedulers or project support technicians. 

Although not required, it is helpful for students to have hands-on project management experience or a high-level understanding of project management principles.