You will learn how to customize Project for your environment using templates, configuring your own objects and spreading knowledge across your organization. We will discuss earned value techniques to measure your project performance. In this course, project managers learn how to leverage Microsoft Project Professional or Standard in standalone mode to effectively collaborate and manage multiple projects and optimize resource assignments on multiple and complex projects. Project managers gain the skills to create cross project links, develop shared resources, track and report status across multiple projects. Who will benefit from this course This course is useful for project managers, delivery managers and senior managers who need to manage multiple and complex projects using the best practice guidelines on Microsoft Project. This course is good for organizations that use the standalone version of Microsoft Project. What background do I need Experience with Microsoft Project Professional at the level of Microsoft Project Fundamentals is assumed. You should know how to create different tasks, enter durations and dependencies, baseline your project, track and report progress on a single project. You should also be comfortable with project management concepts, understand project dependencies and resource management in shared environment. How is this course different than Microsoft Project FundamentalsMicrosoft Project Fundamentals course provides a fundamental understanding of Microsoft Project Professional or Standard to plan and manage a single project. Advanced Microsoft Project is for those who would like to use it to manage multiple or complex projects. This course will teach how to use advanced features for resource workload resolution, schedule compressions and earned value management. The fundamentals course covers the basic knowledge required for using Microsoft Project in a single project environment. However, this course is geared toward project managers who need to manage multiple projects and need to share resources with other project managers. How much of this course is hands on Approximately 5. Lab exercise covers real time scenarios on the course topics. Case study and project files will be provided where applicable to solve the exercises.