Private Bookings:

As a result:

This course is only available as a private booking for an individual or group.

  1. We are able to run courses on dates to suit you,
  2. We can customise the course content for you,
  3. We can offer discounts for larger group bookings.

Our private courses can run online, in-person at your offices or at one of our training centres.

Please contact us for full details.

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Courses

MS Project: Introduction Course

Introduction to Microsoft Project Course

2 Days
Online, London & Guildford
Onsite Courses Available
20th, 21st Mar

For complete beginners looking to become capable MS Project users.

  • Project management basics
  • Project plans & calendars
  • Create & assign resources
  • Edit projects created by others
  • Create Gantt charts & reports
MS Project: Advanced Course

Advanced Microsoft Project Course

2 Days
Online & Guildford
Onsite Courses Available
25th, 26th Mar

Become a MS Project power user & master its most advanced tools.

  • Resource sharing & pooling
  • Create & edit project templates
  • Link & merge multiple projects
  • Custom fields, filters & groups
  • Using custom views & reports
MS Project: Combined Course (Introduction & Advanced)

Combined Microsoft Project Courses

4 Days
Classroom, Online & Client Site
Onsite Courses Available
21st, 22nd, 25th, 26th Mar

The fastest way from complete beginner to Microsoft Project expert.

SAVE £55 when you book our Introduction and Advanced Project courses at the same time.

Choosing The Right Course

 

If you are unsure which of our Microsoft Project courses is right for you, please call us. We’ll be very happy to advise you.

Our Introduction & Intermediate Microsoft Project course is for complete beginners. You do not need any previous experience with Microsoft Project software to attend.

It is designed for people who will be:

  1. Working with and updating complex project plans which have been prepared by other analysts
  2. Creating simple project plans from scratch.
  3. Going on to attend our Advanced course and need to master the basics.

By the end of this Microsoft Project introduction course, you will be able to:

  1. Navigating the Microsoft Project environment.
  2. Create a project plan and calendar, track progress and manage projects
  3. Visualise your project schedule as a Gantt chart.
  4. Understand how to allocate resources and manage resources.
  5. Set up critical tasks and understand a project’s critical path.
  6. Create recurring activities, linking tasks and scheduling.

This instructor-led course covers Microsoft Project from all angles, helping you progress through to advanced Microsoft Project training.

Our advanced Microsoft Project training course is for people who are already Microsoft Project users and want to develop advanced skills and a deeper understanding.

It is designed for people who will be creating complex project plans from scratch using Microsoft Project, like a professional project manager.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Manage advanced project resources like resource pooling and resource sharing.
  • Highlight resource conflicts & complex task relationships.
  • Export a project file for business analysis and reporting.
  • Real-time resource management and project tracking.
  • Lead and lag time.

This course is designed specifically for users of Microsoft Project Online Professional and is for beginners.

Microsoft Project Online Professional is for people who will not be creating their own project files and project calendars.

It is designed for people who will be using Project Online Professional to:

  • Edit an existing project plan including adding tasks to a project timeline.
  • Create, manage and report on timesheets
  • Establish and report against a project baseline.

Yes we do.

We frequently run group training for in-house courses, and individuals who want to focus on a specific part of Microsoft Project’s project planning tools.

Please contact us for more details, we can provide courses for all levels and disciplines.

Training Locations

London Training Venue & Course Details
St Clements House, 27 Clements Lane
London, EC4N 7AE
Tel: 0203 603 0150

Directions


Guildford Training Venue & Course Details
Surrey Technology Centre, 40 Occam Road
Guildford, GU2 7YG
Tel: 01483 688 488

Directions

The Training Day

Course Times

9.15 - 9.30
Arrival
9.30 - 11.00
Training Session 1
11.00 - 11.15
Break
11.15 - 12.45
Training Session 2
12.45 - 1.30
Lunch
1.30 - 14.45
Training Session 3
14.45 - 15.00
Break
15.00 - 16.30
Training Session 4

What's Included?

Everything you need for a great day's training.

A full-colour Project manual to keep. A full-colour Project manual to keep.
A USB stick so that you can take files home with you. A USB stick so that you can take files home with you.
Pens and pads to take notes with. Pens and pads to take notes with.
Plenty of tea, coffee and biscuits. Plenty of tea, coffee and biscuits.
6 months of post-course support. 6 months of post-course support.
A modern comfortable air-conditioned training room. A modern comfortable air-conditioned training room.

FAQs

 

Our online Microsoft Project training mirrors our classroom training and covers exactly the same course content.

It is a fully interactive, live training session using Zoom or Teams with the trainer present throughout.

As you move through the material in the virtual classroom, you will have plenty of chances to try out the new skills that you’re learning. You can ask questions at any point.

If you get stuck, you can share your screen with the trainer.

This allows the trainer to see exactly what you are doing. They can then explain what is going on and get you back on track as they would during a classroom course.

Yes. We provide everyone who completes one of our courses with a certificate of attendance.

Microsoft Project is project management software produced by Microsoft.

It is one of the most popular and powerful project management software packages on the market.

It is designed to be used by professional project managers and others involved in project management.

It is used to plan, organise, manage and track the progress of projects against a project plan. It can be used to plan and manage multiple projects to successful completion at the same time.

Microsoft Project allows you to organise resources and assets, monitor your schedule and budget, and quickly create charts and plans to visualise your project data.

We currently use Microsoft Project 2016 for our training courses.

Confusingly, although Project is part of the Microsoft Office ‘family’, it is not included when you purchase the Microsoft Office suite.

If you would like to purchase Microsoft Project you can find it here.

In recent years Project has not fundamentally changed, although it has steadily evolved.

This means that the training will still be highly relevant if you use a different version of Microsoft Project, for example, Project 2019.

Microsoft Project is relatively straightforward to learn as a user.

With two days of training, you can become a very confident Project user.

If you would like to become a very advanced user using new features like project servers, web access, portfolio management and the advanced analytics and reporting modules that will obviously take a little more time.

Microsoft Project is useful for anyone managing and reporting on any sort of substantial project.

This could be a traditional project manager, a team leader managing a team or a director of a business.

Anyone in a management position in a business that works with relatively few, large important projects or tasks would find the software very applicable.

For project management, MS Project is far better than Excel, just as Excel if far better than Project to calculations based tasks.

You can create simple project plans and Gantt charts in Excel. However, Microsoft Project contains a number of features like assigning resources, project scheduling and resource calendars (including working and non-working days) that are very difficult or impossible to replicate in Excel.

Far better is to use both programs in conjunction. You can export Microsoft Project data into other Office applications like Access, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Power BI where you can further manipulate it as necessary.

Microsoft Planner is a very lightweight app that is included with Microsoft 365 business subscriptions.

At heart, it is a very stripped down version of Project.

It is very useful for simple projects, but its limitations soon become clear when working on more complex projects and so not really suitable for professional project managers.

It lacks lots of project management functionality like the ability to manage sub-projects, to customise views and calculate completion dates.