Description:

This one-day course covers an important project skill which can make project management and completion more predictable.

This course is a companion course of Asta PowerProject and is intended to provide a working knowledge of its usability and value to the project management process. PowerProject has been around for many years and is the scheduling package of choice in the UK and the registered preferred package for the management of the 2012 Olympics in London.

Asta PowerProject has a graphical user interface and was the very first of its kind. It is surprisingly powerful considering how simple it is to use. However as projects get more complex you can access more and more functionality to help you stay in control.

Asta PowerProject is intended to be used by everyone, whatever the level of planning is required. The involvement of everyone is, indeed, how Powerproject has been so successful. Planning is not the work of one person. The planning process is shared by everyone who contributes effort to the project, with the planner facilitating this process.

This course is an introduction to PowerProject. You will enjoy it and find great use from it in the future.

An Attendance Certificate will be provided at the end of this skill course.

Vital Benefits:

Scheduling on projects is best done collaboratively. This course provides you the following vital benefits:

• A detailed understanding of the use of Asta PowerProject
• An ability to produce meaningful schedules of projects and monitor throughout
• An understanding of the valuable nature of simplicity in scheduling and the inclusion of all the team in the building of the model

Objectives:

Projects can be complex and so it is not helpful to use tools which simply add to the complexity. Through this course it is our objectives to:

• Show how useable PowerProject is
• Show how schedules can be quickly developed and monitored
• Provide interesting and workable case studies and examples to anchor the learning
• Clearly demonstrate the benefits of this powerful package

Topics:

The course covers the following topics:

• Recognise and use the Asta PowerProject desktop
• Create linked bar charts
• Edit and apply working time through calendars
• Understand and analyse the critical path and float
• Manipulate the chart using constraints
• Summarise the bar chart
• Create a coded reporting system
• Edit the display
• Update progress on your project

Who to Attend:

Projects are mainly about time. We would recommend the course to the following project people:

• The client staff
• The project managers
• The project staff
• Line managers
• The professional services teams
• The senior supply chain managers
• Everyone who wants to know more about PowerProject
• Anyone who sees project management as a career
• Those who want to develop their business skills