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For complete beginners looking to become capable MS Project users.
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
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The first session of this Microsoft Project course introduces the basics.
It begins by showing you how to navigate around the MS Project interface, menus and environment. This should be familiar to anyone who is an experienced user of Microsoft Office.
From there, it introduces the basics of setting up a new project.
The key topics trained in this session are:
This session covers some useful background and helps to put Microsoft Project into a practical context.
We review what project management is, why planning is so important and how project management tools, and more particularly computers, can make the process of project management simpler and faster.
The key topics trained in this session are:
This session looks in detail at setting up a new project correctly.
Tasks are one of the key building blocks of project management.
This section explains how MS Project handles the individual tasks that make up your overall project.
It shows you how to create a new task, how it is measured (time, work, units etc) and how to move or duplicate tasks that you have already created.
This session also covers how you set the constraints on a task and the deadlines for a task. Ensuring that the tasks for your project are correctly set up and configured is vital for a smooth-running project.
The key topics trained in this session are:
Dependencies explain the relationships between tasks in Project.
Within a project most tasks will be linked. So for example, if you are renovating a house you cannot paint a wall before you have plastered it, allowed it to dry and prepared it to be painted.
This session focuses on how Microsoft Project works with related tasks and how you can set up the dependencies to help you understand how your project is progressing and how best to run it.
We look at working in Microsoft Project with tasks that have a lead time and also a lag time in this session. These are tasks where they can either overlap to some extent with the previous task (lead time) or where some clear time is required between one task being completed and the subsequent task commencing (lag time). Adding lag times is also a simple way to build in a small amount of contingency into a plan.
The key topics trained in this session are:
This session focuses on how you set up and input your project resources into MS Project.
It also shows you how to set up the costs of your resources correctly. Once you have correctly set up your tasks and resources for a project, you are well on your way to having a clear plan for its execution.
The key topics trained in this session are:
There are multiple ways that resources can be allocated within Microsoft Project depending on a number of things including the type of task, the duration of the task and the number of other resources available.
Understanding how to set these up is the focus of this session.
The key topics trained in this session are:
Having set up your resources in the previous session, this session covers how you then work with and assign your resources to tasks.
It covers part-time resourcing and how you can specify usage either by hours or percentages. We also look at a case study on resources in Project to finish this session.
The key topics trained in this session are:
The other key input into a project is materials. This session covers these in detail showing you how to assign material consumption in various ways so that it best fits the profile of usage in the project.
The key topics trained in this session are:
The final part of working with the inputs for a project is to pull together materials and resources into a Project Cost plan.
This section shows you how to add costs either per day or per usage, or to make them fixed. It also shows you how to change the costs during a project if necessary. Once we have completed this session, creating a full-cost plan for your project will be simple.
The key topics trained in this session are:
This session drills down into the detail of working with deadlines and constraints.
By default, all tasks are set with a constraint of As Soon As Possible. However, if something needs to be completed for a set date (for example, a conference), then setting that date will allow Microsoft Project to flag up very early if changes to the plan will impact that date.
The key topics trained in this session are:
This session shows you how to use Project to manage and keep track of a live project once you have it fully set up.
It shows you how to create a baseline for your project. This allows you to then compare future project plans with your initial plan very simply. We also cover how to update a project for actual results and how to delay tasks that are already set up.
The key topics trained in this session are:
Understanding how to access and your data in Microsoft Project is vital, especially for larger and more complex projects.
This section shows you how to use the data tools that are contained in Microsoft Project so that you can quickly and simply manage your data.
The key topics trained in this session are:
Communication is a key part of project management.
Being able to edit the output that you generate from Microsoft Project so that you can easily and clearly communicate the relevant sections of the plan to everyone involved is vital. This section shows the various formatting tools that Microsoft Project has which allow you to do this.
The key topics trained in this section are:
This section follows from the one above and covers how to print various reports from Microsoft Project so that you can communicate your project plan to a wide audience.
The key topics covered are:
Gantt charts are a key part of project management. As such, Microsoft Project contains a number of formatting tools so that you can ensure that they print in a sensible and logical way. This section covers these tools.
The key topics covered include:
You do not need any prior knowledge of Microsoft Project to attend this course, as it’s designed for beginners.
As long as you have a basic working understanding of Windows applications, you’ll be absolutely fine.
One of our regular trainers for this course is Serena.
Serena began her career as a business analyst before moving into IT training.
She is a Microsoft-certified and TPMA-qualified trainer and has over 20 years experience leading Microsoft Project training courses, managing training projects and writing training materials.
Become a MS Project power user & master its most advanced tools.
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
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This is an advanced Microsoft Project course for people who already have experience using Project.
It assumes that you have a good understanding of Microsoft Project either through attending our Introduction to Microsoft Project training course or through your day-to-day work.
An understanding of basic project management techniques is useful but not required.
One of our regular trainers for this course is Serena.
Serena began her career as a business analyst before moving into IT training.
She is a Microsoft-certified and TPMA-qualified trainer and has 20+ years of experience in leading training courses, managing training projects and writing training materials.
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.
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.
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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 course is for complete beginners. You do not need any previous experience with Microsoft Project to attend.
We designed it for people who will be creating simple project plans from scratch and working with complex project plans prepared by other analysts.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Our advanced training course is for people who are already Project users and want to learn to create and manage complex projects.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
This course is for beginners who are learning to use Microsoft Project Online Professional.
By the end of this course you will be able to:
Yes we do.
We frequently run group training for in-house courses which we run online, at our training centres or client offices.
Please contact us for more details.
You will be able to generate simple and project tracking reports after our introduction course.
In order to use Microsoft Project for complex projects and tracking you will need to attend our advanced course as well.
Project Online is cloud-based version of Microsoft Project. It is designed for real-time collaboration but offers less detailed scheduling and resource planning functionality.
Project is no more difficult that other project management tools.
Once you understand the key concepts learning to use Project for simple projects is straightforward.
Learning to use it for complex projects is inevitably more time consuming.
If you are familiar with other project management tools it is far easier to learn as most of the concepts (for example, Gantt charts, task lists and dependencies) won’t be new.
Similarly advanced Excel users often find the new concepts easy to pick up given the similarities.
We run a full schedule of remote courses over Zoom.
We also deliver private courses over Teams, if requested.
Letting us know which areas you would like to focus on before your course is very helpful.
