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 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 PRINCE2TM 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.