Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project Training

Microsoft Project Training Courses

Master Project Planning and Delivery with Microsoft Project

Our Microsoft Project training courses help organisations plan, manage and deliver projects more effectively. Whether you’re new to project management or looking to enhance your scheduling and resource management skills, our practical, instructor-led training provides the knowledge needed to manage projects with confidence.

Training is available online, onsite across the UK, or at your preferred location. Microsoft Project is widely used by project managers, programme managers, team leaders and business professionals to create realistic project plans, track progress and manage resources.

Course Levels

Microsoft Project Introduction

Learn the fundamentals of project planning including task creation, dependencies, milestones, calendars and timelines.

Microsoft Project Intermediate

Develop more advanced scheduling skills, resource allocation techniques, progress tracking and project reporting.

Microsoft Project Advanced

Master complex project planning, multiple project management, resource levelling, custom reporting and project optimisation.

What You’ll Learn

  • Creating and managing project plans
  • Defining tasks and milestones
  • Scheduling and dependencies
  • Managing resources and workloads
  • Tracking project progress
  • Monitoring budgets and timelines
  • Creating project reports
  • Managing project risks and changes

Who Should Attend?

  • Project Managers
  • Programme Managers
  • Project Coordinators
  • Team Leaders
  • Operations Managers
  • Business Analysts
  • PMO Staff
  • Anyone responsible for planning and delivering projects

Benefits of Microsoft Project Training

Create realistic project schedules

Improve project visibility and control

Manage resources more effectively

Track progress against deadlines

Produce professional project reports

Reduce project risks and delays

Improve collaboration across project teams

Why Choose Phoenix Solutions4all?

Our Microsoft Project courses are delivered by experienced trainers with real-world project management expertise. Training is tailored to your organisation’s project environment and can incorporate your own project plans, templates and reporting requirements.

  • Microsoft Certified Trainers
  • Practical hands-on exercises
  • Corporate-focused training
  • Online or classroom delivery
  • UK-wide coverage
  • Customised course content

Enquire About Microsoft Project Training

Whether you’re managing small projects or large enterprise programmes, our Microsoft Project training courses will help your team develop the skills needed to plan, monitor and deliver projects successfully.

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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.