Who should attend

The MS Project Programme is aimed at anyone wishing to use MS Project 2000, 2002, 2003 or 2007 to enhance their management of programmes and projects, project leaders and the team members assisting them, as well as functional managers and entrepreneurs who need to coordinate inputs into projects.

Previous participants of the MS Project Programme represented organisations from a wide variety of industries, including financial services and banking, construction, engineering, software development, transport and harbour administration, telecommunications, education, NPOs, local government and various small entrepreneurs.

Admission requirements

No tertiary qualification is required. Attendance of a course in Project Management at NQF level 5 or higher is imperative, proof of which must be submitted with the application. Candidates must be familiar with operational systems in the Microsoft environment, including the use of menus, icons and the mouse. Experience with a spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel would be an advantage.

Faculty profile

Mr. Jurie van der Watt (Click through to CV)

Contact person (Enquiries)

Claire Sissing (USB, Bellville)
Tel: +27 (0)21 918 4222
Fax: +27 (0)21 918 4478
claire.sissing@usb-ed.com

How you will benefit

The MS Project Programme aims to equip participants with the skills to develop a software-generated project plan using various scheduling constraints and task types, including creating and assigning resources, entering fixed and resource costs, tracking progress on a project, and organising project information for use by various role-players.

Certification

On successful completion of the MS Project Programme, participants will receive a certificate from the University of Stellenbosch.

Content overview

The MS Project Programme is presented in 9 sessions of 2hr 20min each over 3 days from 8h00 to 16h45. The content is structured into the following sections:

ORIENTATION TO MS PROJECT SOFTWARE

• Overview of MS Project software
• Scheduling software such as MS Project, Primavera and others
• Differences between MS Project versions (98 to 2007, Standard versus Professional)
• Add-ons and integration with software from Microsoft and other vendors (e.g. IBM Rational)

PLANNING A SIMPLE PROJECT

• Without MS Project 
• With MS Project

- creating tasks
- linking tasks
- creating the Work Breakdown Structure using summary tasks
- scheduling tasks (working in network diagram view, creating dependencies between tasks, creating deadlines and constraints)

ASSIGNING RESOURCES TO TASKS

• Creating resources
• Adding resource costs
• Task types
• Effort-driven scheduling
• Fixed costs
• Viewing the project budget
• Troubleshooting resource assignments
• Levelling resources manually and automatically

WORKING WITH CALENDARS

• Creating base calendars
• Setting and displaying the Project Calendar
• Working with resource calendars
• Assigning task calendars

ORGANISING AND FORMATTING PROJECT DETAILS

• Customising WBS codes
• Basic formatting
• Customising views and tables
• Filtering, grouping and sorting tasks and resources
• Using the Organiser

SHARING PROJECT INFORMATION WITH OTHER PROGRAMS

• Exporting project data to the web
• Working with hyperlinks
• Importing into and exporting from MS Project

MANAGING MULTIPLE PROJECTS

• Consolidating projects
• Sharing resources across projects

TRACKING PROGRESS

• Recording actuals
• Viewing the project status

NQF complexity level

The MS Project Programme is presented on the complexity level of NQF 5.

Assessment Criteria
There are two classroom-based assessment activities and a homework assignment for the MS Project Programme. Students must achieve at least 50% for both of the classroom-based activities in order to be allowed to hand in a homework assignment. The homework is assessed according to criteria which would indicate that a candidate is competent to use Microsoft Project in the workplace. The final result is either highly competent, competent or not yet competent. A copy of the assessment criteria is available on request.

Date and Venue

Fees

R6 500

MS Project Programme fees include programme material, lunch and refreshments, and are payable before the commencement of the programme.

Payment Policy

It is of utmost importance that USB-ED be formally notified in writing of cancellation 14 days prior to the commencement date of the programme.

A cancellation fee of 10% will be payable for cancelling fewer than 14 days prior to the commencement of the programme.

Please note that the MS Project Programme fees and dates are subject to change.

Payment options