MS Project Training
About the program
Microsoft Project is one of the most widely used tools in project management community for scheduling and tracking projects across the industries. Microsoft Project is now a mandatory skill for a professional to play the role of project manager or even project coordinator.
The MS Project training will teach you to initiate a project with MS Project, create a meticulous Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), manage dependencies, define resources and allocate them, optimize schedule, optimize resources, find out resources that are over allocated or free, set and manage baseline, tracking the projects using various methods and to generate tabular, text and attractive graphical reports.
Highlights
MS Project Training is a practical oriented cased study based workshop. For majority of the time, participants will work on MS Project. They will learn by doing. Post this MS Project training, you will start planning, tracking, and reporting your projects from very next day. The training will cover MS Project 2010, MS Project 2013, MS Project 2016 and MS Project 2019.
Testimonials
Mr. Yeddu Chaitanya Kumar
Mr. Atul Deshpande
Mr. Rashid Abbasi (PMP®)
Mr. Praval Srivastava
Ms. Neetu Rana
Mr. Amit Mishra
Mr. Yeddu Chaitanya Kumar
Mr. Atul Deshpande
Virtual Classroom
Physical Classroom
Training Outline
Microsoft Project Training will cover Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Project 2013, Microsoft Project 2016 and Microsoft Project 2019. If you are working or intended to work on MS Project 2010 or MS Project 2013, MS Project 2016 or MS Project 2019, this workshop is suitable for you.
- Project Management Foundation.
- Mapping project life cycle to Microsoft Project.
- Microsoft Project and its environment.
- Adapt MS Project to organization environment.
- Create a new project.
- Set up a project calendar.
- Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to setup tasks.
- Enter effort or duration estimates.
- Apply project dependencies among tasks.
- Set up a resources list with all types of resources.
- Assign resources to tasks.
- Prepare a Gantt Chart.
- Identify the critical path & perform critical path analysis.
- Manage ongoing work and deadlines.
- Create tasks for recurring work.
- Identify over allocation and perform resource levelling.
- Perform crashing and fast tracking to meet timeline.
- Create and update project baseline.
- Update actual status with various methods.
- Measure schedule and cost variance.
- Adjustschedule by crashing &fast tracking
- Understand various types of reports.
- Prepare reportswith inbuilt report templates.
- Prepare customized reports suiting to the stakeholders.
- Let’s do it once again end to end independently.
- Identify gaps if any, fill them and build confidence.
Trainer's Profile
The Founder and Chief Consultant at pmwares is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Microsoft Certified Professional with more than 25 years of experience. Currently, he is driving Project Manager’s Club of Pune – A not for profit initiative in association with College of Engineering, Pune (COEP)
Passionate about project management, he trains, coaches and mentors project managers, senior managers and leadership team to excel in project management and employ best practices. He provides advisory services to corporate for building strong project management capability, develop robust project management processes, setup effective project management systems and support managers on the job for implementation.
Vivek Prakash
Founder and Chief Consultant
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Schedules / Registration
Live Virtual Classroom
2nd, 3rd, 9th & 10th August, 2025
Only Saturday & Sunday
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm IST
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Classroom in Pune
23rd & 24th August, 2025
Only Saturday & Sunday
9:00 am to 6:00 pm IST
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Frequently asked questions
MS Project is used across the industries. All major to minor companies use MS Project to effective plan, track and report their projects. It is equally popular in all types of industries.
No But you also do not need to know all the features of MS Project. Microsoft has a standard training of 3 days coving all the features. However many of those features are not used by project manager in a day to day life. In this 2 days workshop, we cover all features that project managers commonly require to manage their projects every day.