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Project Management With Office

This course teaches students how to use Microsoft Office applications, particularly Microsoft Project, to manage projects from planning through reporting. Over 10 lectures, students will learn to create work breakdown structures, Gantt charts, assign resources, track costs, and generate custom reports for projects. The course aims to provide skills in key project management techniques using Microsoft Office. It is open to Bocconi undergraduate and graduate students and involves both in-person and remote participation.

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Project Management With Office

This course teaches students how to use Microsoft Office applications, particularly Microsoft Project, to manage projects from planning through reporting. Over 10 lectures, students will learn to create work breakdown structures, Gantt charts, assign resources, track costs, and generate custom reports for projects. The course aims to provide skills in key project management techniques using Microsoft Office. It is open to Bocconi undergraduate and graduate students and involves both in-person and remote participation.

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Project management with Office


Lecturer: Gianluigi Pertusi

Language
English

Course description and objectives


The course analyzes the entire life-cycle of a project: planning, controlling and
reporting tasks will be implemented leveraging the potential of Microsoft Office. The
main focus is on Microsoft Project but some project management features of
Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint will be addressed too.
The course objective is to provide the knowledge to manage the most common
planning and controlling techniques with Microsoft Office applications.

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:


• plan the most important variables related to a project: tasks, resources, and
costs
• control the project performance
• create meaningful project reports
• plan and monitor multiple projects

Audience
The course is open to students enrolled in Bocconi degree programs (Bachelor,
Master of Science, Integrated Master of Arts in in law) and is part of the Enhancing
Experience activities that grant two credits to students attending at least 75% of
lessons and passing the exam during the final lesson.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office Applications.

Duration
20 hours
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Teaching mode
It will be possible to join the course in presence and/or in distance, by connecting
remotely and following the streaming of the lesson held in the classroom.

The final test on the last day of class, however, can only be taken in physical
presence. Online mode will not be provided.

Calendar

Lecture Date Time Room


1 Thu 29/09/2022 18.15 – 19.45 InfoAS05
2 Fri 30/09/2022 14.45 – 16.15 InfoAS05
3 Fri 30/09/2022 16.30 – 18.00 InfoAS05
4 Thu 06/10/2022 18.15 – 19.45 InfoAS05
5 Fri 07/10/2022 14.45 – 16.15 InfoAS05
6 Fri 07/10/2022 16.30 – 18.00 InfoAS05
7 Fri 28/10/2022 14.45 – 16.15 InfoAS05
8 Fri 28/10/2022 16.30 – 18.00 InfoAS05
9 Fri 04/11/2022 14.45 – 16.15 InfoAS04/05
10 Fri 04/11/2022 16.30 – 18.00 InfoAS04/05

Syllabus of the course

Lecture Topics Book reference

1 WBS and Gantt Chart Ch. 3 (except


- Course introduction pp. 45-47)
- Defining projects and project environments Ch. 4 (except
- MS Project: main features pp. 62, 72-75)
- Adding and managing tasks with the WBS pp. 173-178
technique
- Creating the WBS with Excel
- Adding tasks duration
- The Gantt chart
- Adding and modifying predecessors
Exercise
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Lecture Topics Book reference

2 More on project scheduling pp. 62, 72-75,


- The Critical Path Method 170-173, 179-
- Managing task slacks 187, 200-202,
- Task constraints and deadlines 204-207, 208-
- Milestones 210
- The timescale
- Autoschedule and manual schedule
Exercise
3 Managing resources pp. 45-47
- Defining resources Ch. 5 and 6
- Resource types and descriptors pp. 225, 226,
- Calendars 236, 237
- Assigning resources to tasks

Exercise
4 Controlling the project Ch. 8
- The Baseline Ch. 14
- Updating single tasks p. 304
- Updating the project
- Interim plans
- Comparing project versions
Exercise
5 Printing and reporting projects pp. 136-149
- Standard reports pp. 381-387
- Custom reports Ch. 18
- Page setup
- Print options
- Export data to Excel and Power Point
Exercise
6 Advance in Project Control pp. 238-246
- Controlling the resource allocation Ch. 12
- Managing over-allocations
- Controlling project costs
- Controlling the project with the Earned Value
Method
Exercise
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Lecture Topics Book reference

7 Managing a multi project environment Ch. 21


- Consolidating projects
- Adding and managing subprojects
- The resource pool
Exercise
8 Personalizing MS Project pp. 126-132
- Customizing the Gantt chart Ch. 13
- Adding custom fields pp. 364-370
- Creating custom tables 418-423
- Introduction to formulas
9 From guided exercises to working alone: Summary
Exercise
10 Final practical tips on how to use MS Project in real
life scenarios
Final test

Software used
Microsoft Project 2019

Suggested bibliography
C. Lewis, C. Chatfield, T. Johnson, Microsoft Office Project 2019 Step by Step.
Microsoft Press, 2019.
Since MS Project 2019 is very similar to the 2016 and 2013 versions, also the
following books can be used as reference:
C. Chatfield, T. Johnson, Microsoft Office Project 2016 Step by Step. Microsoft Press,
2016.
C. Chatfield, T. Johnson, Microsoft Office Project 2013 Step by Step. Microsoft Press,
2013.

Available seats
This activity is limited to 110 participants and reserved to students of the Master
of Science Programs. Registrations cannot be carried out once this number has
been reached or after closing of the registration period.

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