Course Description
A customized project management process is an efficient way to ensure projects are completed on time, on budget, and on goal. In this course, you’ll learn how to create custom views for tables. This course covers combination views, and how to edit, copy, and create views. You’ll explore how to take a custom view and copy it into the organizer. You’ll also find out what an earned value analysis (EVA) is and how to set it up to view your project costs. Finally, you’ll see how to generate and view EVA tables for tasks and EVA resource tables.
Learning objectives:
- Create and edit custom views and combination custom views
- Ways to copy and create new views and copy to the organizer for future use
- What earned value analysis is and how to set up
- Create an earned value report and view task data in a table
- Resource tables for earned value
Skills You Will Learn
- Earned Value Management
- Microsoft Enterprise Project Management
- Project Accounting
- Project Cost Management
- Project Management
- Project Portfolio Management
What You'll Learn
- Create and edit custom views and combination custom views for tables in MS Project
- Copy existing views and create new views, including copying them to the organizer for future use
- Set up an earned value analysis (EVA) to view your project costs
- Generate an earned value report and view task data in an EVA table
- View resource tables for earned value
- Save a custom table in MS Project
Key Takeaways
- A customized project management process helps ensure projects are completed on time, on budget, and on goal.
- Custom views can be created, edited, copied, and combined, and saved into the organizer for reuse.
- Earned value analysis (EVA) is set up in MS Project to view project costs.
- MS Project can generate earned value reports and display earned value data in both task tables and resource tables.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does this MS Project course cover?
It covers creating, editing, copying, and combining custom views for tables, copying views into the organizer, and setting up earned value analysis (EVA) to view project costs, including generating an earned value report and viewing task and resource tables for earned value.
What is earned value analysis in this course?
The course explains what an earned value analysis (EVA) is and how to set it up in MS Project to view your project costs, then how to create an earned value report and view task and resource data in EVA tables.
What skills will I gain from this course?
The course aligns with skills including Earned Value Management, Microsoft Enterprise Project Management, Project Accounting, Project Cost Management, Project Management, and Project Portfolio Management.
Will I learn how to reuse custom views across projects?
Yes. The course shows how to copy a custom view into the organizer so it can be used for future projects, and how to save a custom table.
