Microsoft Project Training
Microsoft Project is a project management software program that helps project managers and project teams develop plans, assign resources to tasks, track progress, manage budgets and analyse workloads. It can also help show risks and issues within a task or project. With experienced PCS trainers, a difficult process can become simple and easy to understand.
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Working with Microsoft Project
Introduction Microsoft Project Course
Duration: 1 Day
Delivery: Face To Face & Live Online
The course starts with an overview of the whole program, explaining why it can be used as a project management tool. If a project is going to be set up and used for planning and tracking, the rules have to be set up correctly. This course will provide a plan using a Gantt chart, creating calendars and showing how tasks can be linked to each other.
Once a project has been created properly, the next step is how to track and report its progress. The majority of the course is focused on the Gantt Chart View, with other views introduced such as Task Sheet, Network Chart, Resource Sheet and Tracking Gantt.
Who Should Attend?
- Project Managers
- Team Leaders
- Operations Managers
- Project Team Members
Course Requirements
No previous experience of Microsoft Project is required. Delegates should have basic computer skills, including how to use a mouse and keyboard.
Course Content
- Screen Layout: Menus, toolbars and views.
- Project Wizards: Setup and project rules.
- Views: Gantt Chart, Tracking Gantt and View Bar.
- Formatting a Gantt Chart: Text styles, gridlines, layout and timescale.
- Basic Project Planning: Plan and track with baseline.
- Printing: Preview, page setup and printing.
- Basic Customising: Adding notes, labels and critical path.
- Set Up Project: Project information, options and change working time.
- Creating Tasks: Tasks with and without constraints, lag, lead and task dependencies.
- Network Diagram: Pros and cons, creating and customising.
- Basic Resources: Assign more than one resource to a task and understand effort driven tasks.
- Tracking a Project: Add and remove baseline, then compare actual with planned.
- Inserting: Recurring tasks and projects.
- Filtering: Complete and uncompleted tasks, plus resource using filters.
- PCS Tricks and Tips: Practical project planning shortcuts and workshops.
Using Resources
Intermediate Microsoft Project Course
Duration: 1 Day
Delivery: Face To Face & Live Online
This level is aimed at users who want to use resources within a project or across multiple projects. Once resources are assigned properly, users can see costs and working hours assigned to a task or project. Linking multiple projects is taken further to incorporate the Resource Pool, where one set of resources can be assigned to multiple projects.
Who Should Attend?
- Project Managers
- Team Leaders
- Resource Planners
- Operations Managers
Course Requirements
Delegates should have attended the previous stage of the Microsoft Project course at Pringle PCS or have equivalent working knowledge.
Course Content
- Company Templates: Set up and use a company project template.
- Project Problems and Bugs: Adjust work, non-working time and effort.
- Resources: Assign, remove and track with resources.
- Work and Materials: Use work resources and material resources effectively.
- Task Usage and Resource Usage: Analyse workloads and resource allocation.
- Multiple Projects: Link projects and work with a Resource Pool.
- PCS Tricks and Tips: Practical resource planning shortcuts.
- Problem Solving Workshops: Apply the tools to real project problems.
- Questions and Answers: Resolve specific Microsoft Project issues.
Project Master
Advanced Microsoft Project Course
Duration: 1 Day
Delivery: Face To Face & Live Online
The advanced course combines the skills from the previous stages and takes them to the next level. As Microsoft Project works like a database, users are shown how to customise and create new fields that can make processes simpler, or create more complex formulas using SQL statements.
Traffic light systems are a common request in projects and can be added to show risks, issues or highlight slack within a task or project. This course gives users the confidence and ability to master Microsoft Project.
Who Should Attend?
- Experienced Microsoft Project Users
- Project Managers
- Programme Coordinators
- Managers Responsible for Budgets, Costs and Reports
Course Requirements
Delegates should have attended the previous stage of the Microsoft Project course at Pringle PCS or have equivalent working knowledge.
Course Content
- Refresher Workshop: Review previous Project skills.
- Budgets: Work with project budgets.
- Customising Fields: Duration, text, resources, assigning, cost and graphical indicators.
- Project Costs: Resource costs and task costs.
- Reports: Create and customise reports.
- Importing and Exporting: Move project data between systems.
- PCS Tricks and Tips: Advanced practical shortcuts.
- Advanced Workshop: Apply advanced tools to real project scenarios.
- Problem Solving Workshops: Solve complex project planning problems.
- Questions and Answers: Resolve specific Microsoft Project issues.
Bespoke Project Training
Custom Microsoft Project Course
Duration: Tailored To Requirements
Delivery: Face To Face & Live Online
Bespoke Microsoft Project training is ideal when your team needs help with real project plans, resources, baselines, reports, tracking methods or company-specific project processes. The course can be tailored around your own project files and the exact planning problems your staff need to solve.
Who Should Attend?
- Teams who manage company project plans
- Managers who need to track progress, budgets and resources
- Staff who need help fixing existing project files
- Project teams who need a consistent company planning process
Course Requirements
Requirements can be agreed before the course. Delegates can bring examples of project plans or real planning problems so the training is practical and directly relevant.
Course Content
- Company Project Files: Work with your own plans, templates and project structures.
- Resource Problems: Resolve workload, allocation, effort and cost issues.
- Tracking and Baselines: Improve how your organisation tracks progress.
- Reports and Dashboards: Create outputs that managers and teams can understand.
- Practical Workshops: Solve real Microsoft Project problems during the training session.
