Advanced Resource, Budget, and Cost Management in Microsoft Project
By Ben Howard
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Description
The aim of this course is to teach you the things that only the seasoned professionals know about Microsoft Project, but without incurring the battle scars! In this course, Advanced Resource, Budget, and Cost Management in Microsoft Project, you'll learn advanced skills required to track, analyze, and report on your project like a pro. First, you’ll learn how to analyze tasks to see what’s actually driving your schedule. Next, you’ll deal with money, looking at different resource rates and creating and tracking budgets. Finally, you’ll look at advanced project tracking, where you’ll combine several techniques to help you minimize the number of updates you need to perform and minimize the disruption to the rest of the schedule. When you’ve finished the course, you'll have the skills and knowledge to use Microsoft Project just like a seasoned professional.
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Course Overview
Hello everyone. My name is Ben Howard, and welcome to my course, Advanced Resource, Budget, and Cost Management in Microsoft Project. The aim of this course is to teach you the things that only the seasoned professionals know about, but without you getting the battle scars that they've got. First, you'll learn how to analyze tasks to see what's actually driving your schedule. Next, you'll deal with money, looking at different resource rates and creating tracking budgets. And finally, you'll look at advanced project tracking where we'll combine several techniques to help you minimize the number of updates you need to perform and minimize the disruption to the rest of the schedule. When you finish this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge to use Microsoft Project just like a seasoned professional does. In terms of prerequisites, this is an advanced course, and so I'd recommend completing the following courses on Microsoft Project: Creating and Printing Project Plans using Microsoft Project, which is a beginner course, and Tracking Progress and Using Resources and Costs in Microsoft Project, which is an intermediate course. Both courses are written by me, and so this course follows on nicely in terms of learning goals and styles. I hope you'll join me on this course, Advanced Resource, Budget, and Cost Management in Microsoft Project, at Pluralsight.