Project Module 4 – Advanced Tracking and Analytics

Is it right for me?

Our Project Module 4 - Advanced Tracking and Analytics course looks at how to track, filter and extract information and how to effectively report on project progress and costs.

It is designed for experienced users of Project who have attended Module 1 & 2 -– Planning, Scheduling and Implementing or have equivalent knowledge. You must be confident using Project to build and resource schedules and create task dependencies.

What will I get out of it?

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Track overall project progress
• Track work and costs within projects
• Compare schedule to baseline
• Filter and extract information
• Create custom reports
• Export data to Excel

Versions available

2003, 2007, 2010

Related courses in our range

• Project Module 1 & 2 -– Planning, Scheduling and Implementing
• Project Module 3 -– Advanced Scheduling and Customisation
• Managing Smaller Projects (Introduction to Project Management)
• Essential Skills for Managing Projects

What does it cover?

Tracking options

• Setting the status date
• Updating work complete
• Rescheduling work
• Adding progress lines

Key project fields

• Dates, durations, work and costs

Project tracking

• Project statistics
• The critical path
• Using the tracking Gantt
• Viewing baseline against schedule
• Comparing baselines

Work tracking

• Work tracking tables
• Work tracking fields
• Work tracking forms

Cost tracking

• Cost tracking tables
• Cost tracking fields
• Cost tracking forms
• Assignment tracking

Working with filters

• Building standard filters
• Building interactive filters
• Task filters
• Resource filters

Using grouping

• Setting up grouping

Building custom reports to analyse your data

• Task reports
• Resource reports
• Monthly calendar reports
• Crosstab reports
• Visual reports (2007 and 2010)

Exporting data

• Exporting to Excel
• Exporting to an Excel Pivot Table