By microsofttraining on March 20, 2009
Unlike processes or operations, which are repetitive functions carried out to produce existing products or services, a project is a new task to be performed over a fixed period time with the goal of creating a new product or service which brings added value to the business. Every new project is a challenge to a [...]
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By microsofttraining on March 19, 2009
A web search for database courses in London will reveal a countless array of training providers. What is the best way for organizations to evaluate who the right provider is for their needs? Certified Instructors With many training subjects, it can be difficult to evaluate the experience and ability of an instructor. However, with Access [...]
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By microsofttraining on March 19, 2009
In order to use their project planning software more effectively, many companies send their teams to Microsoft Projects courses. Sometimes employees don’t seem to learn much and that’s not always the fault of the course. Proper planning can avoid three of the major pitfalls that lead to bad training. Training is Work – Schedule Appropriately [...]
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By microsofttraining on March 19, 2009
Some managers resist Excel training because they feel it isn’t effective. They point to past examples where money was “wasted” on Excel training advanced courses and yet the department productivity didn’t improve. Effective training is more than finding a course and sending people to it. In Excel training, advanced courses are specialized and can be [...]
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By microsofttraining on March 19, 2009
People take Microsoft PowerPoint training to learn how to use the software, but using PowerPoint is not the same as making a good presentation. You need skills beyond what you learn in Microsoft PowerPoint training. There are three elements in a good PowerPoint talk: the speech, the report, and the slides. The Most Important Component [...]
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By microsofttraining on March 19, 2009
Fresh from a Microsoft Project course, a manager sits down to develop a project plan. However without proper project management principles, the plan will just be pretty charts and graphs that have no bearing on reality. Fast, Good, Cheap – Pick Two Some Project courses discuss the project triangle because it is such as central [...]
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By microsofttraining on March 19, 2009
Companies that use Project may require more focused and customized training than companies that use other Office applications. Basic word processing and spreadsheet skills can be adopted to a wide variety of tasks, but Project applications tend to be unique to each organization. This is even more evident for company projects large enough to require [...]
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By microsofttraining on March 19, 2009
If you need to train a new employee on spreadsheets, do you choose an Excel 2003 training course or train internally? How would your answer change if you were a business with fewer than ten employees? Many small businesses choose internal training because their budgets are small enough that they think they can’t afford an [...]
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By microsofttraining on March 19, 2009
Scope creep. It is the bane of every project manager, and yet it is inevitable. Unless you have planned for it, your schedule will be in a shambles, your project late, and your clients unhappy. What is Scope Creep? After a plan has been created in Microsoft Project it is inevitable that changes will be [...]
Posted in Project Management
By microsofttraining on March 19, 2009
Project training covers the mechanics of how to use the software for project management but often doesn’t deal with the details of how to apply these techniques to the real world. Setting up a proper work schedule is one of the core concepts to proper project management. An unrealistic schedule dooms the project from the [...]
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