Project Resource Management

Build Resource Management Skills for Better Project Control and Reporting

This practical training course gives you the skills needed to manage work, cost, and material resources in Microsoft Project. You will learn how to enter resource information, assign resources, manage availability, monitor costs and report on project data.

Whether you already manage project tasks or want to strengthen your resource planning, this course builds on established Microsoft Project knowledge so you can manage resource-constrained projects with greater control.

Project Resource Management is ideal for people who:

• Use Microsoft Project for task management
• Have applied task-management skills to a project
• Need to plan work, cost, or material resources
• Want to manage resource-constrained projects
• Need to customise project information and reporting

To attend Project Resource Management, you should:

• Have completed Project Task Management or have equivalent experience
• Understand tasks, durations, dates, summary tasks and sub-tasks
• Understand links, lead and lag, constraints and deadlines
• Understand duration, work, baselines and tracking
• Be able to print, report and work with multiple projects

After completing Project Resource Management, you will be able to:

• Enter and maintain resource information
• Use calendars to manage availability
• Assign and level project resources
• Specify and monitor resource costs
• Customise tables, fields, filters, groups and reports

Module 1: Resource Information

• Enter work, cost, and material resource information
• Understand when to use each resource type

Module 2: Calendars and Availability

• Use project and resource calendars
• Manage resource availability and scheduled changes

Module 3: Resource Assignments

• Assign resources to tasks
• Add resources to existing assignments
• Review the Resource Usage view

Module 4: Resource Levelling

• Identify resource constraints
• Use resource levelling to resolve overallocations

Module 5: Custom Project Information

• Create custom tables and fields
• Use filters and groups to extract information

Module 6: Costs and Tracking

• Specify resource costs
• Track resources and monitor costs
• Review project progress

Module 7: Shared Resources and Templates

• Use resource pools
• Use templates to support consistent project setup