Description:

This one-day course on reporting, monitoring and controlling projects covers an important project skill.

This course is a companion course of Asta PowerProject and is intended to provide a working knowledge of the reporting, monitoring and controlling features of the package. Critical path analysis has its roots in model analysis and the reporting, monitoring and controlling features manage the progressing of the actual work but also provide a vital ability to manage the uncertainty through power “what-if” scenarios. This functionality is largely unlimited to all practical purposes, thus enabling the user to control the degree of complexity which the project requires.

Asta PowerProject provides an opportunity to produce powerful reports using whatever information is within the package. These reports can be used to provide understanding of complex situations as well as week by week progress reporting. There is no limit on how information is used as long as it is logical and relevant. The monitoring and controlling processes create a powerful project management tool in situations which can be very complex. PowerProject remains surprisingly straightforward during the process of developing the reports required in the running of the project.

This course on reporting, monitoring and controlling in PowerProject is enjoyable and will lead to significant benefits to the project management of your projects.

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

Vital Benefits:

Reporting, monitoring and control of projects is what project management is largely about. This course provides you the following vital benefits:

• A detailed understanding of the use of reporting, monitoring and controlling in the management of projects in Asta PowerProject
• An ability to produce meaningful reports for all purposes to help other understand the status of the project
• An understanding of the monitoring and control processes

Objectives:

Reporting, monitoring and controlling projects in a formal and demonstrable way are crucial in project management and PowerProject allows you to do this well. In this course it is our objectives to:

• Teach you how to use reports, monitoring and controlling functionality
• Teach you how to produce special reports that may be required throughout the project
• Help you work with the view functionality of PowerProject
• Create user defined fields allowing additional information to be kept for reports and control
• Provide interesting and workable case studies and examples to anchor the learning

Topics:

The course covers the following topics:

• Understanding and editing the library explorer
• Creating simple calendars
• Using a work breakdown structure
• Add a work breakdown numbering system
• Work with views onto a project
• Create filters
• Create user defined fields
• Build and print reports
• Book-out and book-in data for independent editing
• Use baselines for monitoring projects
• Use progress periods

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
• Planning staff
• Anyone who sees project management as a career
• Those who want to develop their business skills