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Microsoft Project Training

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Microsoft Project Training – Project Planning, Scheduling & Resource Management

Improve project planning and delivery with our practical Microsoft Project training courses. Phoenix Solutions4all delivers instructor-led Microsoft Project training that helps organisations plan projects more effectively, manage resources efficiently and monitor project progress with confidence.

Microsoft Project is one of the world’s leading project management software applications, enabling organisations to create detailed project schedules, allocate resources, manage budgets, track milestones and produce professional project reports. Our hands-on training helps delegates use Microsoft Project to manage projects from initiation through to successful completion.

Training is available online, on-site anywhere in the UK, or at our training centres, with every course tailored to your organisation’s projects, project management methodology and reporting requirements.

Suitable for beginners through to advanced users, our Microsoft Project courses combine practical software skills with recognised project planning best practices.

What You’ll Learn During Our Microsoft Project Training

Our Microsoft Project courses focus on real-world project management scenarios that delegates can apply immediately.

Topics include:

  • Understanding Microsoft Project and project scheduling principles
  • Creating structured project plans and work breakdown structures (WBS)
  • Defining tasks, milestones and project phases
  • Building realistic project schedules using durations and dependencies
  • Creating task links and managing critical paths
  • Working with project calendars and working time
  • Managing deadlines, constraints and task priorities
  • Assigning and managing resources
  • Monitoring workloads and resource utilisation
  • Tracking project costs and budgets
  • Setting project baselines
  • Recording progress and updating project status
  • Analysing project variances and forecasting completion dates
  • Creating professional Gantt Charts and timeline views
  • Producing reports and dashboards for stakeholders and project governance
  • Sharing project information and collaborating with project teams
  • Microsoft Project best practices for successful project delivery

Every course includes hands-on exercises using realistic business projects, ensuring delegates gain practical experience in planning, monitoring and controlling projects.

Why Choose Phoenix Solutions4all for Microsoft Project Training?

Our Microsoft Project training is designed to help organisations improve project planning, reporting and delivery.

Benefits include:

  • Experienced Microsoft Project trainers with extensive project management and business experience
  • Live instructor-led training with practical demonstrations and hands-on exercises
  • Courses tailored to your organisation’s projects, reporting requirements and project management processes
  • Online, classroom and on-site Microsoft Project training across the UK
  • Practical business scenarios rather than generic software demonstrations
  • Small class sizes for personalised learning and support
  • Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Microsoft Project courses available

Our practical approach ensures delegates can confidently use Microsoft Project to manage real projects immediately after completing the course.

Who Should Attend This Microsoft Project Course?

Our Microsoft Project training is ideal for professionals responsible for planning, managing and delivering projects, including:

  • Project Managers
  • Programme Managers
  • Project Coordinators
  • Project Support Officers (PMO)
  • Team Leaders
  • Operations Managers
  • Resource Managers
  • Business Analysts
  • Engineering and Construction Professionals
  • IT Project Teams
  • Consultants
  • Anyone responsible for project planning and scheduling

The course is suitable for beginners as well as experienced project professionals looking to improve planning accuracy, reporting and project control.

Benefits of Microsoft Project Training

After completing this course, delegates will be able to:

  • Build professional project plans and schedules
  • Manage project timelines and critical paths
  • Allocate and monitor resources efficiently
  • Track budgets, progress and project performance
  • Identify delays and manage project risks proactively
  • Produce professional reports for stakeholders
  • Improve project visibility and governance
  • Deliver projects more efficiently using Microsoft Project

Flexible Microsoft Project Training Delivery

Phoenix Solutions4all offers flexible Microsoft Project training throughout the UK, including:

  • Instructor-led online Microsoft Project training
  • On-site Microsoft Project training at your offices
  • Private corporate Microsoft Project courses
  • Bespoke Microsoft Project workshops
  • Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Microsoft Project training
  • Tailored courses based on your organisation’s projects, templates and reporting requirements

Every course is customised to reflect your team’s experience, project methodology and business objectives.

Book Microsoft Project Training

Looking for Microsoft Project training in the UK? Phoenix Solutions4all delivers engaging, instructor-led courses that help organisations improve project planning, scheduling, resource management and project reporting using Microsoft Project.

Whether you’re managing small business projects or large, complex programmes, we can tailor a Microsoft Project training programme that gives your team the skills to plan confidently, monitor progress effectively and deliver successful outcomes.

Contact us today to discuss your requirements and create a Microsoft Project training programme tailored to your organisation.

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Microsoft Project Intro-Inter

Course Overview

Audience:

This course is designed for new or self-taught Microsoft Project users. This course covers the fundamental things about creating and maintaining successful projects.

Prerequisite:

No Prior experience or knowledge of MS Project is required to attend this course. You must have good basic Microsoft Windows, keyboard and mouse skills.

Duration:

This is a 2-day MS Project Introduction course. The course starts at 09:30 and runs until 16:30. Alternate timings can be arranged upon request. The course can be held on a date that suits you.

Location:

Our Microsoft Project Introduction course can be delivered virtually using online training platforms such as MS Teams or Zoom or face-to-face at any preferred location in the UK, Europe or ROW.

Project Intro-Inter Course Outline

PROJECT AND PROJECT TERMS

Theory of Project Management

Project User Interface, Windows, Quick Access Toolbar, Ribbons, File Tab, View Button

Using Help

Terminology

The Project Triangle

Creating a project

Default settings

Define project

Priorities

CREATE A PROJECT CALENDAR

Create a New project Calendar

Set the Default working Hours & Week

Alter Hours of Working Day

Set additional Non-Working Days e.g. Bank Holidays

Applying a calendar to a project

ENTERING AND LINKING TASKS

Enter Tasks, Set Durations and create Milestones

Manual and automatic scheduling

Task information dialog

The indicator column

Create summary tasks

Using the outline tools

Link and unlink tasks, Link types

Predecessors and Successors

Add notes

TASK RELATIONSHIPS AND CRITICAL PATH

Finish to Start, Start to Finish, Finish to Finish
and Start to Start

How to Avoid Dangling Tasks

Theory of Critical Path

Showing the Critical Path

Slack Time

Creating lead and Lag time

NAVIGATION AND PROJECT VIEWS

View button

Use Go to selected task Button

Use the Zoom tools To change timescale

View the timeline

Split views

Add tasks to timeline

Format Time-scale

Switch view to Calendar View

Switch view to Network Diagram

Switch view to Gantt Chart

Keyboard Short Cuts for Views

More views option

RESOURCES

Enter resources

Resource types

Labels, names and groups

Set costs, standard and overtime

Cost per use

Resource Information dialog

Add notes

Pro rata

Cost Rate Tables

Fixed Task Costs

Resource Calendars

Availability

Task assigning

Task Constraints & Task Management

General (default) Constraints

Hard Constraints

Soft Constraints

Deadlines

Remove deadlines / constraints

Scheduling Project from Start Date

Scheduling Project from Finish Date

Delay and reschedule

Fixed Duration and Fixed units

Create and assign Task Calendars

PROJECT COSTING

Resource Costs

Duration Driven

Show Project Statistics for project cost and duration

Show cost table (Gantt view)

Identify over allocations

Deal with over allocations

TRACKING

Setting a baseline

Clearing a baseline

Marking tasks % complete

Using the tracking Gantt to spot slippage

Inactivate tasks

Reschedule workload

Levelling options

Splitting tasks

SORTING, GROUPING & FILTERING

Sorting tasks by non-default sort order

Apply grouping levels

Use the AutoFilter

Use In-built filters for Filtering Tasks

TABLE USAGE

Switch tables

More tables

Add columns

Hide columns

Producing Reports

Overview

Run Task Usage reports

Run Current Activities reports

Run Costing reports

Run Work load reports

Run visual reports to Excel or Visio

Running Custom reports

PRINTING

Print preview

Gantt Chart

Network Diagram

Calendar View

Page Setup Options

Print options

Snapshot to other application

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One to One

(which includes a tailor-made training programme for the individual where they can mix and match the topics from various levels to get the most cost-effective training

Group for up to 8 learners
The Course outlines on our website are standard, however, we would be happy to tailor them to your specific requirements. Please call us on 020 3696 2796 or send us a message to discuss further.

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Extras

This is a sample of some of the Short training videos. Please note that you can get access to many more, once you have done a course with us and are registered as one of our delegates.