MS Project training

Simplify project management using MS Project!

Plan projects, track progress and work together with ease wherever you are.

• MS Project basic

Objectives

– Apply a precise project planning and tracking methodology

– Learn how to use MS Project to plan a project and track its progress

– Understand best practice to optimise project management and the time you spend tracking projects using MS Project

– Learn how to manage multiple projects

Content

• When to use MS Project
  • Project management concepts
  • Project plan
  • Project process
  • Sequencing methods
  • PERT
  • GANTT
  • Other methods
• Configuring and getting started with MS Project
  • Options
  • Basic calendars
  • Basic project information
  • Task planning
• Task types
  • Milestones
  • Summary tasks
  • Entering tasks
  • Entering relationships
  • Costing tasks
• Displaying tasks in MS Project
  • Tables
  • Filters
  • Reports
• Resources
  • Entering and costing resources
  • Resource allocation rules
• Displaying resources in MS Project
  • Tables
  • Filters
  • Reports
• Managing resource issues
  • Detecting overallocation
  • Resource levelling
  • Levelling Gantt view
  • Manually resolving issues
• Displaying and printing, Reporting
  • Gantt, network diagram
  • Displaying, customising, updating
  • Print management
  • Displaying critical path
  • Displaying margins
• Project tracking
  • Entering progress by duration and by work
  • Work tracking
  • Deadline tracking
  • Cost and margin tracking
• Advanced options
• Tips and tricks

The course content can also cover advanced MS Project features or can be tailored to your individual needs.

Target audience

Anyone who needs to manage projects involving other people.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.

Microsoft Project (often abbreviated to MS Project) is a project management application designed by Microsoft. It was specially designed to meet the needs of managers and project leaders, whatever the size of the team or organisation. In just a few years, it has become the world’s most popular project management solution.
MS Project is a comprehensive tool offering a wide range of customisable features. The main functions are:

• project planning and management,
• resource administration,
• data analysis and
• report creation.

But this software has a number of other useful features and options to help you work more productively.

Quality Training’s MS Project course is designed to teach you to use MS Project in an effective way that suits your specific needs.

Discover how to use MS Project on the Quality Training course

The main objective of the MS Project course offered by Quality Training is to simplify how you manage your projects by teaching you how to get the best out of this powerful Microsoft tool.

• learn to apply a precise project planning and tracking methodology;
• be capable of using MS Project easily and with full autonomy to plan a project and track its progress;
• understand essential techniques to optimise project management and the time you spend tracking projects using MS Project;
• create reports showing sequencing, resource usage, progress, programmes and budget in just a few clicks;
• understand how to set up and take advantage of multiple project management features;
• be capable of sharing files and data with other members of your organisation or with external partners;
• work together with ease using team calendars (with notifications) and task management tools.

MS Project course content

Here at Quality Training, we know that project planning, management and visibility are absolutely essential within an organisation. Our MS Project course has been designed to provide you with the skills and knowledge you’ll need to manage projects easily, efficiently and in a collaborative way. Our Microsoft Project workshops are organised into different topics.

Introduction and getting started with MS Project:

• project management concepts, plan and process;
• sequencing methods;
• PERT and GANNT diagrams and other methods;
• configuration, options and parameters in MS Project;
• calendars and basic project information;
• task planning and organisation;
• different task types (fixed units, fixed work, fixed duration and summary tasks);
• entering tasks, assigning costs and links;
• displaying tasks as tables, filters and reports;
• handling milestones.

Human and financial resource management;

• entering resources and their costs;
• resource allocation rules;
• displaying tasks as tables, filters and reports;
• managing resourcing problems (audit, detecting overallocations, manually resolving issues).

Project tracking:

• updating progress (manually or automatically calculated) by duration and by work;
• identifying discrepancies;
• work tracking, deadlines, costs and margins;
• data collection and report creation.

The course content can also cover advanced MS Project features or can be tailored to your individual needs.