This course, taught in our computer lab, teaches the advanced use of Microsoft Project as a planning, scheduling, estimating, and risk-management tool in an integrated project management system using the Microsoft Office family of tools. It mimics and reinforces the techniques taught in Project Planning and Control X471.9 and Project Risk Management X440.4. Students practice software application and project management methodology in class using theoretical project management problems and in assignments and activities based on their own, real-life projects. The final project consists of a complete plan, including cost, schedule, resource optimization, and report development, taken through several reporting periods and including a closing scenario. No experience with MS Project or any other MS Project add-on software is required.
Enrollment is limited.
Current consulting and training assignments include work for such varied clients as Sun Microsystems, Xilinx, Pacific Gas and Electric, Vitacom, and Aramco Oil. He is also currently developing a Web-enabled software product based on the system of project management he has developed and taught at UC Berkeley Extension for the past eight years.