This course prepares resource managers to use Microsoft Project Professional and PWA to manage resources, skills and allocation of resources to projects.

Course Prerequisites: Participants should be familiar with basic Project Management concepts and principles. CMD’s Project Management Fundamentals class covers the prerequisites for this course.

 Audience: The course is designed for resource managers, project managers, team leaders and PMO staff. Others who can benefit from the class include: Business Analysts, Team Members, EPM Systems Administrators, Program Managers and Portfolio Managers.

This course prepares team members to use the collaboration facilities of PWA including: viewing assignments; reporting time and work performed; managing project documents and reporting project issues, risks, and status.

Course Prerequisites: None

Audience: The course is designed for Team Members who will be assigned to project tasks. Others who can benefit from the class include: Business Analysts, Project Managers, EPM Systems Administrators, Executives, Program Managers and Portfolio Managers.

This course focuses on learning how they can effectively manage and review projects, risks, issues, progress and other indicators across their organizations using PWA.  

Course Prerequisites: None

Audience: The course is designed for Executives, Program Managers, Portfolio Managers, Project Managers, Team Leaders and PMO staff. Others who can benefit from the class include: Business Analysts, Team Members, EPM Systems Administrators.

This course prepares students to administer the different elements of Microsoft’s Project Server 2003 including setting up and managing business rules, enterprise codes, enterprise resource pools, user permissions, building OLAP-cubes and standardizing on views and dashboards.

Course Prerequisites: Participants should be familiar with basic Project Management concepts and principles. CMD’s Project Management Fundamentals class covers the prerequisites for this course.

Audience: The course is designed for EPM Systems Administrators and PMO Staff. Others who can benefit from the class include: Business Analysts, Project Managers, Program Managers and Portfolio Managers.

Note: Systems Administrators and PMO staff are generally focused on specific requirements that they must implement in the Project Server. Time to implement most of the requirements is generally very short. We have found that delivering this course as a combination of lectures and mentoring over a one week time is also very effective

Students learn the use of advanced features included in Microsoft Project EPM 2003. Topics include EVA, multi-project roll-up and reporting, resource booking and managing baselines. The course also focuses on class discussions covering actual project situations and covers many best practices to effectively manage project plans from start to finish.

Course Prerequisites: Participants should be familiar with and have used Microsoft Project EPM 2003 on one or more projects. Prerequisites include the topics covered in CMD course Project Manager.

Audience: The course is designed for project managers, team leaders and PMO staff. Others who can benefit from the class include: Business Analysts, Team Members, EPM Systems Administrators, Program Managers and Portfolio Managers.

Note: This course builds upon the Project Manager course. Topics in course are covered in much greater detail. Cause and effect of certain decisions and setting is discussed in the context of actual project situations.