MS Excel for Project Managers

🚀 Course Title: MS Excel for Project Managers 📊

Course Headline:

How to Develop MS Excel Project Artifacts to Help Manage Your Project

Course Description:

🚀 Overview: With about 5 hours of content, this is the most comprehensive course designed to teach project managers how to harness the full power of Microsoft Excel to develop essential project management artifacts. This isn't just theoretical - it's a practical guide based on real job experience. You'll learn specific, step-by-step procedures that you can apply immediately to your work.

📈 What You'll Gain:

• Step-by-Step Instruction: Master the development of various project management artifacts in Excel, from Action Item Documents to financial analysis with pivot tables.
• Real-World Examples: Work through actual artifacts you'll use throughout your career, enhancing your understanding and skill set.
• Hands-On Practice: Each section concludes with a project to reinforce the concepts learned. Detailed documentation is provided to guide you in building your own project management artifacts.
• Bonus Project: Create your own Gantt Chart timeline tracker in MS Excel - a tool crucial for visualizing project task progress.

🕒 Duration & Commitment: With over 40 lectures and approximately 5 hours of content, if you dedicate just 30 minutes a day, you can complete this course in about 3 weeks.

🤔 Is This Course for You? If you're a Project Manager looking to enhance your Excel skills to handle daily project management tasks more effectively or anyone interested in creating robust analytical tools in Excel, this course is perfect for you. The skills you gain are directly applicable to real-world projects and can significantly improve your productivity and data analysis capabilities.

🤝 Support Along the Way: As you navigate through the course, you'll have opportunities to reach out with questions or feedback on my website, and I will PERSONALLY respond to ensure your understanding.

What You’ll Learn:

• ✅ Gantt Chart Tracker: Learn to create a Gantt chart project task tracker in MS Excel.
• ✅ Status Report Presentations: Link data from MS Excel to MS PowerPoint for engaging status reports.
• ✅ Financial Analysis: Utilize Pivot Tables and Charts for comprehensive project financial analysis.
• ✅ Mathematical Functions: Master Sum, Avg, IRR, NPV, and other functions to evaluate project viability.
• ✅ Cross-Sheet Data Consolidation: Implement cell referencing across multiple worksheets.
• ✅ Data Validation & Conditional Formatting: Prevent invalid data entries with these tools.
• ✅ Lookup Functions: Become proficient with VLOOKUP, INDEX MATCH for data analysis.
• ✅ Efficient Data Entry: Discover techniques to enter data into your spreadsheets quickly and efficiently.
• ✅ Formatting Wizardry: Learn about font & border alignment, cell merging, number formats, format painter, and tab colors/themes.
• ✅ Analytical Functions: Use SumIf, If, Or, IfError, and CountIf to analyze specific sets of data.

Who is This Course for?

• 👨‍💼 Project Managers: For those who want to leverage MS Excel to develop robust project management artifacts.
• 🔍 Data Analysts: Ideal for anyone looking to create powerful analytical tools in Excel.
• ✈️ Senior Managers & PMO Analysts: Understand the financial performance metrics of projects with ease.
• 📚 "Accidental" Project or Program Manager: Learn how to use project management artifacts to navigate your role more effectively.

Embark on this journey with Daniel Rivera, PMP - your experienced guide through the complexities of MS Excel for Project Management. With his expertise and real-world examples, you'll be well on your way to mastering Excel and taking your project management skills to the next level! 🌟