MS Excel for Project Managers
With about 5 hours of content, this is the most comprehensive course on how to leverage MS Excel to develop project artifacts that can help you manage projects.
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Gain step-by-step instruction on how to develop various project management artifacts leveraging MS Excel - from the Action Item Document to leveraging pivot tables to generate project financial analysis.
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Information gathered is from specific past job experience - this is not a theory course but a course to teach you specific step-by-step procedures to leverage MS Excel to develop project management artifacts.
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Leverage real-world examples to increase your knowledge of MS Excel as we work through actual artifacts that you will leverage during your project management career.
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Each section ends with a project to help reinforce the knowledge attained. Step-by-step documentation is attached to help you build your own project artifact leveraging MS Excel.
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Bonus Project: Build your own Gantt Chart timeline tracker in MS Excel - You will be taken step-by-step to produce your own Gantt chart where you can track the progress of project tasks visually.
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How long will it take?
With over 40 lectures and about 5 hours of content, if you budget just 30 minutes a day, you can complete this course in approximately 3 weeks.
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Is it for me?
This course is for you if you want to learn step-by-step how to leverage MS Excel to help you manage your day to day project management tasks. The skills you learn here can be applied to real-world projects.
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What if I don't understand a topic?
As you move through the course, I will provide prompts where you can reach out to me on my website with questions or feedback. I will PERSONALLY get back to you to answer any questions you may have.
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What you’ll learn
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How to create your own Gantt chart project task tracker in MS Excel.
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Linking MS Excel data to MS PowerPoint to develop robust status report presentations.
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Pivot Tables and Charting of Project financial data.
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Mathematical functions such as Sum, Avg, IRR, or NPV and how to use them to analyze which project to undertake.
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Cell Referencing across multiple worksheets to help you consolidate data into one sheet.
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Data validation and Conditional Formatting to help your users avoid entering invalid data into your sheets.
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Lookup functions such as VLOOKUP AND INDEX MATCH to find data nested within data tables.
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Techniques to help you enter data quickly into your spreadsheets.
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Font & Border alignment, cell merging, number formats, the format painter, and tab colors/themes.
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Analytical functions such as SumIf, If, Or, IfError, and CountIf to analyze data that only meets certain conditions.
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Who this course is for:
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Project Managers who want to leverage MS Excel to develop robust project artifacts
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Anyone who wants to develop robust analytical tools in MS Excel to analyze data.
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Senior Managers who want to better understand the project metrics.
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PMO Analysts who want to understand the financial performance of projects.
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The "accidental" project or program manager who wants to understand how to leverage artifacts to do their jobs better.