Elecosoft (asta) Powerproject V17 For Unresourced Projects
 

How to create, format, baseline and update an unresourced project with Elecosoft (Asta) Powerproject.
What you'll learn
✓ How to create an unresourced project using Elecosoft (Asta) Powerproject Version 17
✓ How to format project data using Elecosoft (Asta) Powerproject Version 17
✓ How to update an unresourced project using Elecosoft (Asta) Powerproject Version 17
✓ Some of the more advanced features of Elecosoft (Asta) Powerproject Version 17
Requirements
● Students should be working in a project environment and understand how projects are planned and controlled. This includes knowledge of project management processes, understanding how to plan a project, experience in the use of PCs and an understanding of the operating system.
Description
ABOUT THE COURSE
The course objectives are to teach participants how to create projects without resources, formatting, printing, creating a baseline and updating an un-resourced project, topics covered are
• The user interface,
• How to create a projects,
• Scheduling projects without resources,
• Filters, Views, Sorts and Printing,
• Creating and assigning a baseline and
• Updating an un-resourced project.
Most chapters are reinforced by student workshops.
The course is suitable to be used with any recent version of Powerproject.
The course has the following modules
1. Introduction to Asta Powerproject and Creating a project
2. Navigation and Setting Options
3. Calendars
4. Tasks and Milestones
5. Summary Tasks
6. Linking Tasks to create a Critical Path Schedule and Reschedule
7. Constraints
8. Other Task Types
9. Formatting the Display
10. Code Libraries
11. Filters
12. Organising Tasks using Group and Sorts
13. Printing and Reports
14. Baselines
15. Updating an Unresourced Project
16. Library Explorer
17. User Definable Fields and WBS.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paul Harris holds an Honours Degree in Civil Engineering obtained in the UK and is a Certified Cost Engineer through AACE International, a PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner and a "Managing Successful Programmes" Registered Practitioner. He has worked in the project controls industry for a number of years and has assisted many companies in a range of industries to set up and run project controls systems. His Melbourne, Australia based company, Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, offers project controls consulting and training services worldwide with a strong focus on Microsoft Project and Primavera planning software. He has written and published over 50 books on Primavera, Microsoft Project and Elecosoft (Asta) Powerproject scheduling software over the past 20 years.
Who this course is for
■ The following people should consider this course, project managers and schedulers who wish to learn how to use the software to schedule and control projects and Programme Managers, Project Managers and Project Control staff evaluating the software against their organizational requirements.