Project managers are expected to deliver projects with tight timeframe, with limited resources to successfully complete projects on time, within budget and according to requirements. The challenge with starting a new project planning tends to begin with an idea but insufficient details that often makes implementing the projects difficult.  By using MindManager®, you can step back, see the big picture and then drill into all of the important details.  In terms of project planning, this can be very helpful in defining the scope statements, resource allocation, brainstorming, risk identification, business case development; all are essential to the project success and can be achieved through these powerful tools.  Furthermore, this mind mapping tool can export its output to MS Project, making the project planning a totally integrated design solution.  In this course, you learn to effectively create a project plan, track progress, adjust resources and generate dynamic reports in a hands-on learning environment with MindManager® and Microsoft Project® 2010.

You will Learn How To

Engage team members in project planning and ensure alignment on goals and commitments, empowers Individuals and the Teams to:

• Use MindManager to develop more realistic plans by mapping out resource assignments and dependencies
• Display task and project timelines in an integrated Gantt chart
• Easily create work breakdown structures
• Export tasks and plans to Microsoft® Project as needed
• Communicate status and co-edit project maps with your team via any web browser
• Leverage Microsoft Project 2010 to plan and manage project schedules and resources
• Build and optimize your project plan through best practice principles
• Create, modify and organize calendars in order to control the project schedule
• Track progress, update plans and monitor variances between target and actual project deliveries
• Assign resources to tasks and troubleshoot over allocation conflicts
• Structure dashboards and reports to effectively share project data

Who Should Attend

Anyone to need to plan, execute and deliver project results will benefit from this course. Familiarity with project management concepts, such as tasks, resources and critical path, are helpful.

It can improve project planning by brainstorming and tracking task details, automatically calculating summary tasks and optimizing resource utilization. View MindManager, Outlook and SharePoint* tasks in the new synchronized Gantt view or export tasks to Microsoft Project. Stay on top of deadlines and tasks with synchronized topic alerts.

Microsoft Project 2010

This highly interactive hands-on training course teaches delegates to understand the concepts behind Microsoft Project and how they can utilize the software to its full potential. Delegates learn how to structure both timeline and resource driven plans. Advanced users can also take advantage of its project control and monitor function to proactively manage their project, predicting project end date and total project cost-at-completion. The case studies used on the course explore the use of calendars, resource pools, setting a baseline, tracking and reporting. The customization of project is also covered to enable delegates to implement Microsoft Project in their corporate environment.

Hands-On Training

Hands-on exercises provide you with practical experience using MindManager® 8 and Microsoft Project 2010 and include:

• Generate project requirements and develop project scope statement
• Learn the creative power of brainstorming with MindManager
• Build Work Breakdown Structure using MindManger
• Creating project plans, tasks, summary tasks and milestones
• Constructing and changing task dependencies
• Deploying manual and automatic scheduling techniques
• Controlling project, task and resource calendars
• Setting baselines and tracking progress
• Generating basic and dynamic reports

WHY YOU SHOULD DO IT NOW!

• Ideal for anybody with a need to manage projects in a systematic manner, plenty of examples to follow that offer visual clarity. Our teaching method is based on what we do in class so you don't lose anything
• Linked with the PMBOK® and PRINCE2® so if you are planning to do the PMP® it will help you in your preparation. If you are a PMP® it will provide you 21PDU. Apply your PMP or PRINCE2 methodologies with this powerful tool.

Students are expected to bring their own laptop computer, if MS Project or MindManager are not installed, Apollo can provide a time limit temporary license for the training purpose.