Course Description for Project Management—Basic

This course includes information on the following processes:

Course Length

The estimated time to complete the Basic course is 8.75 hours.

Target Audience

This course is designed primarily for persons working within a project-intensive business including project managers, project coordinators or project members.

Introduction

This chapter gives you an overview of the project management process and the project cost element concept. You will get an introduction to basic terms and principles.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites to take the lesson in this chapter.

Chapter Length

The estimated time to complete this chapter is 30 minutes.

Target Audience

This chapter is designed for anyone interested in a overview of the project management process and project cost element concept.

Basic Data and Requirements

This chapter covers some of the basic data that is used in IFS/Project. 

Prerequisites

Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge about how to work with IFS Applications.

Chapter Length

The estimated time to complete this chapter is 15 minutes.

Target Audience

This chapter is designed primarily for project managers and project members.

Initiate Project

This chapter covers how to create a project and enter project information. 

Prerequisites

Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge about how to work with IFS Applications.

Chapter Length

The estimated time to complete this chapter is 45 minutes.

Target Audience

This chapter is designed primarily for project managers and project coordinators.

Establish Project Plan

This chapter covers how to establish a project plan by building a project structure and creating activities.

Prerequisites

Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge about how to work with IFS Applications.

Chapter Length

The estimated time to complete this chapter is 45 minutes.

Target Audience

This chapter is designed primarily for project managers, project members and project planners.

Forecast and Assign Resources

This chapter covers how to create project resource and forecasts, copy forecasts, spread hours, review forecasts, create resource snapshots and connect to them, approve forecasts and setting forecast as planned.

Prerequisites

Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge about how to work with IFS Applications. It would also be useful to have knowledge about the basic functionality in IFS/Project Reporting.

Chapter Length

The estimated time to complete this chapter is 2 hour.

Target Audience

This chapter is designed primarily for project managers and resource planners.

Plan and Assign Resources

This chapter covers how to define resource groups and how to allocate them to project activities. This chapter also describes how to analyze the resource capacity for an activity, or one or more projects.

Prerequisites

Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge about how to work with IFS Applications. It would also be useful to have knowledge about the basic functionality in IFS/Project Reporting.

Chapter Length

The estimated time to complete this chapter is 1 hour.

Target Audience

This chapter is designed primarily for project managers and project members.

Define Project Deliverables

This chapter covers how to plan with project deliverables including tasks and project demand.

Prerequisites

Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge about how to work with IFS Applications. It would also be useful to have knowledge about the basic functionality in IFS/Purchasing.

Chapter Length

The estimated time to complete this chapter is 2 hours.

Target Audience

This chapter is designed primarily for project managers and project members.

Approve Project

This chapter covers how to approve your project and create a corresponding financial project in IFS/General Ledger. This chapter also covers how to start your project and which measures to take to initiate performance analysis.

Prerequisites

Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge about how to work with IFS Applications. It would also be useful to have knowledge about basic functionality in IFS/Accounting Rules and IFS/General Ledger.

Chapter Length

The estimated time to complete this chapter is 1 hour.

Target Audience

This chapter is designed primarily for project managers and project coordinators.

Release Activity

This chapter describes the statuses and status changes a project activity can have. In particular it is described how to release activities so that work can be started. In addition, this chapter covers how cost and progress are reported to activities.

Prerequisites

Before taking the lesson in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge about how to work with IFS Applications.

Chapter Length

The estimated time to complete this chapter is 30 minutes.

Target Audience

This chapter is designed primarily for project managers and project members.

Execute Project Miscellaneous Demand

This chapter covers how to execute project miscellaneous demand by directly issuing from inventory.

Prerequisites

Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge about how to work with IFS Applications. You also need to be familiar with functionality in IFS/Inventory.

Chapter Length

The estimated time to complete this chapter is 30 minutes.

Target Audience

This chapter is designed primarily for project managers and project members.

Execute Manual Activity Connected Objects

This chapter covers how to execute objects which are manually connected to activities, and in particular how to use tasks to report progress to activities.

Prerequisites

Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge about how to work with IFS Applications.  

Chapter Length

The estimated time to complete this chapter is 1 hour.

Target Audience

This chapter is designed primarily for project managers and project members.

Analyze Project Performance

This chapter introduces you to how the key indicators for project performance are calculated and how to analyze project performance.

Prerequisites

Before taking the lessons in this chapter, you should have basic knowledge about how to work with IFS Applications.

Chapter Length

The estimated time to complete this chapter is 30 minutes.

Target Audience

This chapter is designed primarily for project managers, project coordinators and project members.