Microsoft Project certification Training Course
Microsoft Project Training by Educad Academy is a practical, industry-focused course designed to help professionals plan, schedule, manage, track, and control projects effectively using Microsoft Project.
This Microsoft Project course covers essential project planning and scheduling techniques, from basic concepts to advanced project control. Participants learn how to create project schedules, define tasks and milestones, establish task dependencies, identify the critical path, manage resources, control project costs, set baselines, track progress, and create professional project reports.
Through hands-on exercises and real-world project scenarios, learners gain practical experience in creating and managing complete project plans. The training covers resource allocation, resource leveling, constraints, deadlines, cost management, project tracking, task slippage, filters, groups, views, and reporting.
This Microsoft Project Training is suitable for project managers, project coordinators, project planners, engineers, administrators, team leaders, business professionals, and anyone responsible for planning, scheduling, or monitoring projects.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to confidently use Microsoft Project to develop structured project schedules, monitor project performance, manage resources and project budgets, identify potential delays, control project changes, and communicate project information through professional reports.
Whether you are looking to improve your project planning skills or build practical expertise in project scheduling and control, this Microsoft Project Training provides the knowledge and hands-on experience needed to manage projects more effectively.
Course Objectives:
- Understand the Microsoft Project environment and core project management concepts.
- Create complete project schedules using tasks, durations, milestones, and dependencies.
- Manage project resources, workloads, and resource allocation.
- Plan and monitor project costs and budgets.
- Identify the critical path and manage project constraints and deadlines.
- Create baselines and track actual project progress.
- Monitor task delays, project performance, and schedule changes.
- Use filters, groups, views, and reports for effective project analysis.
- Apply Microsoft Project skills to practical, real-world project scenarios.
Course Content:
Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft Project
- Introduction to Microsoft Project
- Project management concepts and terminology
- Understanding projects, tasks, resources, and calendars
- Exploring the Microsoft Project interface
- Understanding project views
- Working with Gantt Chart, Timeline, and other views
- Opening and reviewing existing project plans
- Project file settings and basic configuration
Module 2: Creating and Managing Project Schedules
- Creating a new project plan
- Setting project start dates and calendars
- Creating and organizing tasks
- Entering task durations
- Creating milestones
- Creating summary tasks and Work Breakdown Structures
- Manual and automatic scheduling
- Task dependencies and relationships
- Finish-to-Start, Start-to-Start, Finish-to-Finish, and Start-to-Finish relationships
- Working with lead and lag time
- Creating recurring tasks
- Adding task notes and references
- Working with the project timeline
- Identifying and analyzing the critical path
Module 3: Project Resources Management
- Understanding resource types
- Work resources
- Material resources
- Cost resources
- Creating and managing the Resource Sheet
- Assigning calendars to resources
- Resource availability and working time
- Assigning resources to project tasks
- Monitoring resource workloads
- Identifying resource overallocations
Module 4: Resource Assignment and Leveling
- Basic resource assignments
- Assigning part-time and multiple resources
- Understanding units, work, and duration
- Work contouring
- Resolving resource conflicts
- Managing overallocated resources
- Resource leveling techniques
- Understanding overtime
- Reviewing Resource Usage and Resource Graph views
- Practical resource allocation case study
Module 5: Project Cost and Budget Management
- Understanding project costs
- Reviewing project cost information
- Standard and overtime rates
- Variable and fixed costs
- Per-use costs
- Material costs
- Cost resources
- Assigning costs to tasks and resources
- Changing resource rates during a project
- Viewing total project costs
- Monitoring planned and actual costs
- Basic project budget analysis
Module 6: Constraints, Deadlines, and Schedule Control
- Understanding task constraints
- Types of project constraints
- Adding and modifying constraints
- Understanding elapsed duration
- Creating and managing task deadlines
- Rescheduling incomplete and delayed tasks
- Managing schedule changes
- Analyzing the impact of constraints on project completion
- Best practices for maintaining realistic project schedules
Module 7: Project Tracking and Controlling
- Creating and saving a project baseline
- Understanding baseline data
- Updating project progress
- Manual and automatic task updates
- Entering actual start and finish dates
- Tracking actual work and remaining work
- Managing delayed tasks
- Tracking progress using Gantt Chart views
- Identifying task slippage
- Comparing planned and actual project performance
- Using filters and AutoFilters
- Creating and editing custom filters
- Grouping project information
- Using data highlighting for project analysis
Module 8: Project Reporting and Analysis
- Understanding Microsoft Project reports
- Using built-in graphical reports
- Running project reports
- Customizing report data
- Filtering report information
- Creating and modifying reports
- Creating custom project reports
- Enhancing report layout and appearance
- Resource and cost reporting
- Project progress reporting
- Sharing project information with stakeholders
- Final practical project and reporting exercise
Learning Outcomes:
- Create and manage professional project plans and schedules.
- Control tasks, resources, costs, and project timelines.
- Track progress, identify delays, and manage project changes.
- Apply baselines, critical path, constraints, and resource leveling.
- Analyze project performance and generate professional reports.
Course Prerequisites:
There are no formal prerequisites for this course. Basic computer skills and familiarity with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office applications are helpful.
Who Should Attend?
- Project Managers
- Project Coordinators
- Project Planners and Schedulers
- Engineers and Construction Professionals
- Team Leaders and Supervisors
- Business and Operations Professionals
- PMO Professionals
- Administrators managing project schedules
- Students and professionals interested in project management
International Student Fees: 350 USD
Flexible Class Options
- Corporate Group Training | Fast-Track
- Weekend Classes For Professionals SAT | SUN
- Online Classes-Live Virtual Class (L.V.C) Online Training
