Microsoft Project for Project Planning & Control Training Course

The Microsoft Project for Project Planning & Control Training Course equips project managers, planners, PMO staff, and team leaders with the practical skills needed to plan, schedule, resource, track, and report on projects using Microsoft Project. In government entities, ministries, banks, healthcare systems, energy and utility companies, IT and digital teams, construction and engineering organizations, and large corporations, Microsoft Project is widely used to manage projects ranging from infrastructure and facilities to technology implementations, transformation programs, and operational initiatives. Used well, it provides a clear picture of scope, timelines, workload, cost, and progress; used poorly, it produces schedules that look detailed but cannot be trusted. Many users learn Microsoft Project by trial and error. Tasks may be entered as lists with fixed dates rather than logically linked activities, manual scheduling and constraints may override the schedule logic, task types and effort-driven settings may produce unexpected results, and resources may be overallocated without being noticed. Baselines may not be set, progress may be recorded inconsistently, and reports may not show variances or the critical path clearly. As a result, schedules do not respond correctly to change, delays are discovered late, and managers lose confidence in the plan. This hands-on course combines project planning and control principles with practical, step-by-step use of Microsoft Project. Participants learn scheduling fundamentals, including work breakdown structures, the critical path method, slack, calendars, and constraints, and how Microsoft Project calculates schedules. The program covers setting up projects and calendars, building a work breakdown structure with summary tasks and milestones, entering durations, linking tasks with dependencies, leads, and lags, understanding automatic and manual scheduling, applying constraints and deadlines, and analyzing the critical path. Participants then learn to define work, material, and cost resources, assign resources, understand task types and effort-driven scheduling, manage costs, identify and resolve overallocations, and use leveling and the team planner. The course also covers setting baselines, tracking progress using status dates, actual work, percent complete, and remaining duration, analyzing variances and earned value, customizing views, tables, filters, groups, and fields, using the timeline and built-in reports and dashboards, managing multiple projects with shared resource pools and master projects, creating templates, and exporting and sharing project information. This course builds practical software and project control skills and is not an official Microsoft certification program. The course is delivered through intensive hands-on exercises in which each participant builds, resources, baselines, tracks, and reports on a complete case study project in Microsoft Project. Participants leave with a fully developed practice project file, a project setup checklist, a schedule quality checklist, customized views and reports, a progress tracking procedure, and a reusable project template.