Microsoft Project Training

Learning objectives

• Understand the fundamental project management concepts as applied in MS Project.
• Create, structure and organise a project: tasks, milestones, phases.
• Estimate and plan durations, dependencies and constraints.
• Assign human, material and financial resources and optimise the schedule.
• Identify the critical path and track actual progress against the baseline.
• Adjust the schedule to the unexpected; generate reports and dashboards.

Syllabus

Day 1 — Building the schedule

• MS Project interfaces; project and calendar settings.
• Structure: phases, summary tasks, milestones; durations and scheduling modes.
• Dependencies, lags and constraints; critical path.

Day 2 — Resources and tracking

• Assigning resources, workloads, costs and budget; resolving over-allocations.
• Saving the baseline; entering progress; variance analysis.
• Rescheduling after the unexpected; good practices for a living schedule.

Day 3 (optional) — Steering and communicating

• Reports, dashboards and exports (Excel, Power BI); timeline for steering committees.
• Work on a project brought by the participants; schedule templates for your organisation.

Audience and prerequisites

Engineers, managers and professionals involved in task and resource management: project managers, planners, PMO. Prerequisites: basic knowledge of project management and digital tools.

Teaching methods and assessment

Course materials, corrected exercises, a complete schedule built as a running project, end-of-course assessment reviewed by Numersalis, certificate of completion.

Why train with Numersalis?

Our PMO consultants steer technical projects with MS Project every day: the course passes on the structuring and tracking methods that make a schedule genuinely useful in a steering committee.