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Syed Rehan Ali holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, is a certified professional in Project Management, Lean Six Sigma and Agile. Have consulted with numerous local as well as foreign clients and have conducted numerous Management & Leadership trainings for corporate clients in various industries, like FMCG, Oil & Gas, Construction, Automotive.

After a string of high level management roles in various companies, Rehan founded EDDS Consulting (www.edds.com.pk) to utilize his extensive experience in operations & project management and professional training skills at his own company, achieving more than 3000 hours of successful Management Consulting in only 4 years. EDDS Consulting, with the simple yet motivating tagline ‘Let’s excel’, provides consulting and training aimed at Organizational and Personal excellence.

MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
covers 3 major business aspects: ‘Lean Six Sigma Enterprise Transformation’, ‘Organizational Project Management Maturity Assessment & Improvement’ and ‘Design & Deployment of Effective Business Intelligence System’.

TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
programs cover the following:

• General Management
• Project & Risk Management
• Lean Six Sigma
• IT Service Management
• Sales and Marketing
  o Marketing Strategy
  o Marketing Research
  o Digital Marketing
  o Corporate Sales

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COURSE CONTENTS[spacer height=”20px”]

MODULE 1: Managing Projects with Microsoft Project (Basic to Intermediate)[spacer height=”20px”]

Follow along with this module to learn how to better manage your project’s deadlines, tasks, and resources with Microsoft® Project 2013. This module covers setting up project files, creating tasks, assigning resources, working with views, and using baseline calculations to track progress. Plus, learn how to report project information and share it with others.

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[expand title=”1. Working with Project”]

1. Using the Ribbon
2. Navigating the Backstage view
3. Finding commands

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[expand title=”2. Setting Up Project Files”]

1. Creating and saving projects
2. Creating a project from a template
3. Creating a project from an Excel workbook
4. Setting up calendars
5. Defining working and nonworking time
6. Setting basic options

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[expand title=”3. Creating Tasks”]

1. Understanding manual and auto scheduling
2. Creating a manual task
3. Creating an auto-scheduled task
4. Switching between manual and automatic scheduling
5. Creating a milestone task
6. Creating a recurring task
7. Copying tasks from another program
8. Creating a summary task
9. Displaying summary tasks
10. Organizing tasks in a task list
11. Working with work breakdown structure (WBS) codes

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[expand title=”4. Linking and Timing Tasks”]

1. Linking tasks
2. Adding lag or lead time
3. Setting task date constraints
4. Viewing tasks and task links

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[expand title=”5. Creating Resources”]

1. Understanding resources
2. Creating a work resource
3. Creating a material resource
4. Setting up costs for work and material resources
5. Creating a cost resource
6. Assigning Tasks to Resources
7. Understanding duration, work, and units
8. Assigning resources to tasks
9. Using Team Planner to assign resources
10. Finding over-allocations
11. Assigning resources with effort-driven and non-effort-driven scheduling
12. Modifying resource assignments
13. Replacing resources on a task

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[expand title=”6. Working with Views”]

1. Choosing a view
2. Working with a table
3. Inserting and rearranging table columns
4. Changing the settings for columns in a table
5. Displaying two views at the same time
6. Using the Timeline view
7. Sorting tasks and resources
8. Grouping tasks and resources
9. Filtering tasks and resources
10. Modifying task bar styles and task bar text
11. Modifying task bar layout
12. Modifying text formatting

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[expand title=”7. Fine-Tuning the Project Schedule”]

1. Reviewing the critical path
2. Using the Task Inspector to review scheduling issues
3. Splitting a task
4. Delaying a task or assignment
5. Adjusting a work contour
6. Leveling resources
7. Inactivating a task

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[expand title=”8. Tracking and Managing a Project”]

1. Understanding baseline, scheduled, and actual values
2. Saving and clearing a baseline
3. Adding tasks to a baseline
4. Updating the schedule
5. Assigning overtime
6. Updating costs
7. Rescheduling unfinished work

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[expand title=”9. Viewing and Reporting Project Information”]

1. Viewing project schedule status
2. Looking for schedule progress problems
3. Looking for cost problems
4. Working with graphical reports
5. Using earned value
6. Printing views and reports

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[expand title=”10. Sharing Projects”]

1. Saving to other formats
2. Working with the Global Template
3. Importing and exporting
4. Sharing project information in other ways
5. Conclusion

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MODULE 2: Managing Projects with Microsoft Project (Advance)[spacer height=”20px”]

Building on the skills learned in the “Module 1, this module teaches more advanced aspects of the software. First introducing powerful shortcuts for opening and saving files, and then moving into assigning resources, managing project costs, and setting up earned value tracking. Also provides handy tips for exchanging data with other projects as well as linking and embedding data. Will then teach how to customize fields and generate cool graphical and visual reports. Finally, the module shows how to share various customizations and configurations as well as best practices for managing multiple projects.

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[expand title=”1. Options for Opening and Saving Project Files”]

1. File opening and saving shortcuts
2. Saving project files in a specific format and location

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[expand title=”2. Mastering Resource Assignments”]

1. Understanding duration, work, and units
2. Recalculating duration, work and units for assignment changes
3. Keeping task duration fixed
4. Maintaining total task work
5. Changing resource allocations to a task
6. Adding and removing resources from a task
7. Replacing resources on a task
8. Changing multiple assignments on the same task
9. Defining part-time resources using Max Units
10. Defining part-time resources using resource calendars
11. Scheduling a task to override resource calendars
12. Editing in-progress task assignments

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[expand title=”3. Managing Project Costs”]

1. Fine-tuning work resource costs
2. Setting cost rates that change over time
3. Defining time-based material costs
4. Accounting for overtime costs
5. Editing resource costs manually
6. Updating actual cost for cost resources

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[expand title=”4. Working with Earned Value”]

1. Setting up a project to track earned value
2. Understanding earned value analysis
3. Reviewing earned value with a visual report

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[expand title=”5. Exchanging Data with Other Programs”]

1. Hyperlinking in Project
2. Copying data from other programs into Project
3. Copying data between Project files
4. Choosing security settings for importing data
5. Importing data into new Project records
6. Importing data into existing Project records
7. Exporting data from Project

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[expand title=”6. Customizing Fields”]

1. Understanding custom fields
2. Naming a custom field
3. Creating a formula to calculate field values
4. Calculating formula value for summary tasks
5. Displaying field values graphically
6. Creating a lookup table of valid values
7. Formatting task bars based on custom field values

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[expand title=”4. Customizing Graphical Reports”]

1. Creating a custom graphical report from an existing report
2. Customizing the fields displayed in a graphical report
3. Filtering and grouping results in a graphical report
4. Customizing a chart in a graphical report
5. Customizing a table in a graphical report
6. Customizing a text box in a graphical report
7. Arranging graphical report components

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[expand title=”8. Customizing Visual Reports”]

1. Choosing the fields displayed in a visual report
2. Filtering values in a visual report
3. Categorizing results in a visual report
4. Expanding and collapsing results
5. Formatting the chart in a visual report
6. Creating a custom visual report template

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[expand title=”9. Sharing Customizations”]

1. Saving project options for individual projects
2. Understanding the Project Organizer
3. Saving customized and new elements
4. Copying customized elements to your Project global template
5. Copying customized elements between files

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[expand title=”10. Working with Multiple Projects”]

1. Creating a resource pool to share resources
2. Using shared resources on a project
3. Opening and saving a project file with shared resources
4. Editing resource information in a resource pool
5. Creating a master project
6. Inserting sub-projects into a Project file
7. Linking tasks in different projects
   

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