Training

Microsoft^®Office Enterprise Project Management

2010 Course Offerings

At Xcelligent we offer more than just a tool - we give you the skills you need to manage, implement and optimize your Enterprise Project Management (EPM) environment. Our education specialists are certified in Microsoft® Office Project Server. They are more than trainers - they are professionals that are required to recertify their knowledge every year, including a minimum number of hours as working professionals in the field, assuring that our customers receive only the most current and correct information.

In addition, Xcelligent will soon earn the Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) status from the Project Management Institute (PMI), allowing our customers the ability to use course hours as credit toward their project management certifications.

Our most recent course offerings appear below. If you have any questions or concerns about course materials or requirements, please contact Michelle.Thomas@Xcelligent.com

Enterprise Project Management Courses

MSP 101/201: Using Microsoft Project 2007

This course prepares students with the necessary skills to create, plan, staff, manage and execute a project plan using Microsoft Project 2007 (desktop version, not server). Students will create and staff a project plan using best practices, learn about the scheduling engine and how predecessors, constraints, task types, lead/lag time and work contours affect their project and resource schedules. Plan optimization, including baselines and leveling are also explored. This course will fully prepare students to use Microsoft Project at an Intermediate level utilizing best practices. This class is meant for the beginning and Intermediate user. (2 days)

MSPS 110: Introduction to using Microsoft Project 2007 for the Enterprise

This course is designed for users that are new to Microsoft Project or who have never taken a formal Microsoft Project class . Creating a Work Breakdown Structure, planning resources, tasks and scheduling are paramount in this course. Each student is given the opportunity to build a simple project plan from start-to-finish, including creating the outline/structure of the plan, understanding work vs. duration, predecessor relationships, tasks vs. assignments, forward pass/backward pass scheduling, constraints and reading the Gantt Chart. This course is designed to be the prerequisite to MSPS 210/310, and should be taken immediately prior to the more advanced class. (1 day)

MSPS 210/310: Managing Projects and Resources in Microsoft^®Office Project Server 2007

This course teaches students how to manage several projects in the enterprise environment, with emphasis placed upon creating a project from a template, defining tasks, adding resources from a resource pool, estimating work, using the scheduling engine, defining predecessor relationships, slack, critical path management, creating resource assignments and capacity planning, using different resource types (material, work, cost), linking and tracking deliverables in the project plan, linking issues, risks and documents to tasks and publishing and updating the project in the enterprise. (2 days)

MSPS 410: Managing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Project Sites

By using SharePoint technologies, Project Managers and their resources can maintain project documentation, collaborate on project deliverables, issues and risks, status reports, discussion groups and enable much tighter control over document/deliverable versioning (1 day)

MSPS 510: Resource, Project & Portfolio Reporting

This course, intended for an executive/management audience, illustrates how to use, create and understand different reports available in Project Server 2007. Information can be compiled on the desktop, including Resource, Project, Portfolio, Deliverable and Task-level reports. (2 hours)

MSP 600: Advanced topics in Microsoft Project and Project Management

This course is intended for the Advanced and Expert users of MS Project . Provided in a Seminar Format, this course is intended to provide users with in-depth knowledge of leveling methodology, master projects and portfolio/program management, using project and task fields, risk and issue management and integration of specific methodologies, such as RUP, RAD, 6Sigma or other customer-related SDLCs. (1 day) Prerequisite: MS Project 101/201 or exam, 5 or more years experience in Project and Program Management and in-depth knowledge of project management principles, methodologies and statistical process controls.

Project Administrator Course

MSPS 810/820: Configuring the Project Server Security Model, Enterprise Global and the Enterprise Resource Pool in Microsoft Office Project Server 2007

Intended for Project Administrators, this course teaches best practices for configuring a new Security Model in Project Server 2007. Students are given real-world examples of implementation requirements in order to create and assign Project Server permissions, groups, users, categories and security templates. Configuration of the enterprise global, creating fields and lookup tables for projects, tasks and resources, creating the enterprise resource pool, and creating and applying the Resource Breakdown Structure are also covered. Finally, creating enterprise views for tasks, resources, project and programs is demonstrated. After this course, students should be able to create and manage their own security model, enterprise global and enterprise resource pool, and enterprise views in Project Server.
(2 or 3 days, dependent upon audience) Pre-requisite: Students should have a working knowledge of their organization’s project management policies and business rules, as well as fundamental Microsoft Office Project 2007 skills. Knowledge of how database and servers work is also a plus.