Introduction

This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and close enterprise projects by using the Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 enterprise tool.
This is the second course in the Microsoft Office Project 2007 Official Curriculum series and covers the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution.

Pre-Requisites

This course requires that students meet the following prerequisites:

• Experience using Microsoft Office Project to create project schedules
• Fundamental knowledge of project management
• Experience with the Windows XP or Windows Vista operating system
• Experience with Microsoft Office Excel 2003
• Familiarity with the key project management concepts and terminology found in the Project Management Institute's PMBOK Guide, Third Edition
• In addition, it is recommended, but not required, that students have completed:

Course 5927: Microsoft Office Project 2007, Managing Project.

Outcomes

After completing this course, students will gain the skills to:

• Get started with Office Project Server 2007.
• Initiate projects.
• Understand the project planning processes.
• Plan projects through scope and schedule management, staffing management plans, and through cost, risk, and other planning documents.
• Plan resource assignments for projects.
• Execute projects through processes, resources, and deliverables, and by managing timesheets and personal settings.
• Monitor and control projects by tracking task and project progress, and through measuring project performance and reporting progress.
• Close projects.