Learn how to manage projects more efficiently to ensure they deliver on time and on budget with our Microsoft Project Introduction course.

Create a project plan, assign resources to the project and keep track of its progress using a Project Gantt chart

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Learn how to manage projects more efficiently to ensure they deliver on time and on budget with our Microsoft Project Introduction course.

Contact us to book now

Learn the top 5 reasons you should be using microsoft project

  • Planning and Scheduling
    • Microsoft Project is a robust project planning and scheduling tool. It offers Gantt charts for project planning and timeline visualisation, the ability to link dependent tasks or create sub tasks and the ability to set baselines for tracking progress
  • Industry Prominence
    • Microsoft Project really is the defacto "go to" Project Management tool that all project managers should be familiar with
  • Resource Management
    • Microsoft Project allows you to track available resources and assign costs to each, meaning that you can analyse how your most valuable resources are being utilised.
  • Reporting Tools
    • A critical element of project management is reporting. Reporting allows project managers to monitor progress, the volume of work completed and what is left to do. Microsoft Project allows you to easily create customised reports that meet your requirements.
  • Integration
    • Specifically, compatibility with Office 365, Skype and SharePoint. Integration with Office 365 is the Number 1 driver for project managers wanting to invest in MS Project. Microsoft Project shares a familiar interface with other Microsoft products, such as Excel, which makes the program intuitive for most users.

What you'll learn in our Microsoft Project Introduction course

At the end of the Microsoft Project Introduction course participants will be able to:

  • Improve upon existing Project knowledge
  • Customise fields in Project, including graphical indicators
  • Create custom tables, filters, views and reports
  • Export data to various Office products using Maps
  • Work with Project templates including the global template
  • Applying hyperlinks to a projects tasks and resources
  • Allocate and manage resources
  • Consolidate and link different project files
  • Share resources across multiple project files
  • Automate Project functionality using macros

Who is the course for?

The Project Advanced course is designed for those who need to know the more advanced features of Microsoft Project. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to create custom tables, views and reports, allocate and manage and share resources and automate project functionality using macros.

We customise all course content & duration to suit

Course duration

StressLess Learning works closely in partnership with our valued clients to customise and refine all course content and duration to suit both organisational goals and individual learners requirements. We are able to offer bite sized topic driven sessions ranging from  2 hours, half day, one and two day courses.

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Microsoft Project introduction training topics

Introduction to Project

  • Microsoft Project Overview
  • Getting started
  • The Project screen
  • Project views
  • Work with split screen views
  • Project fields and tables

Starting a Project

  • Scheduling a Project
  • Set specific Project options
  • Set start and finish dates
  • The Project calendar
  • Customising the calendar for public holidays and hours of work
  • Creating new project calendars
  • Resource calendars

Tasks and Durations

  • Creating tasks
  • Manual vs automatic scheduling
  • Insert, delete and move tasks
  • Insert task notes
  • Outlining a project
  • Estimate task durations
  • Enter task durations
  • Creating Milestones

Task Scheduling

  • Task relationships
  • Relationship types
  • Lead and lag time
  • Task constraints
  • Deadlines
  • Understand critical paths
  • Display the critical path

Formatting

  • Format text
  • Format milestones
  • Format Gantt bars
  • Format Gantt bar text
  • Gridlines

Resources

  • Creating resources
  • Resource types
  • Resource fields
  • Resource calendars
  • Resource costs
  • Assigning resources
  • Understand task types
  • Over allocated resources
  • Automatically leveling resources
  • Manually leveling resources

Project costs

  • Viewing Project costs
  • Variable costs
  • Fixed costs
  • Cost accrual

Tracking the project

  • Creating project Baselines
  • The tracking Gantt chart
  • Tracking tasks
  • Tracking the Project
  • Project lines
  • What can go wrong

Printing

  • Printing the Gantt Chart
  • Print to PDF
  • Printing Reports

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What people say

4.8 out of 5
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Fantastic Microsoft Project course. Arrived feeling extremely overwhelmed by MS Project and Gantt Charts but left the workshop excited to get started!
Caitlin
2020
5 out of 5
5/5
Thanks Ian for covering specific topics that were relevant to my own Project. Highly customised and very valued.
Jason
2019
5 out of 5
5/5
I thought the MS Project training course was very well presented and very thorough. Facilitator was really knowledgeable. Took a lot away from this course.
Dave
2020
4 out of 5
4/5
Seriously good. Fantastic trainer. This Project course will save me so much time, I have been doing it wrong for years :)
Lai-Yee
2019
4 out of 5
4/5
Ian was very patient and took time to go through the more complicated topics. Our project team will be better placed in the future due to this course. Cheers mate.
Kevin
2017
5 out of 5
5/5
Great day of learning.
Jane
2018
5 out of 5
5/5
Wish I had done this years ago. Highly recommend that every new project team attend this Microsoft Project training before they start their projects.
Sandra
2020
5 out of 5
5/5
I learnt so much from the MS Project course and will definitely be using what I have learnt back at work.
Vincent
2019
5 out of 5
5/5
Good entry level course for Project Managers. The Project training was not too technical but was challenging enough with new learning.
Grant
2017

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