Microsoft Project Experts – 20+ Years of Experience
We provide customised online and onsite training for all skill levels, whether you need a focused 2-hour session or a comprehensive 2-day course.
Our training covers everything from the fundamentals to advanced scheduling, Gantt charts, task linking, progress tracking, critical path analysis, reporting, and resource management.
Let’s make your projects a success. Schedule a free 30-minute consultation to discover how our training can help you deliver your projects on time.
Flexible Project Training, Practical Skills
Project Scheduling
Learn to estimate your project’s duration using Gantt charts and critical path analysis. Link tasks, set constraints and deadlines, establish baselines, and track progress effectively.
Stakeholder Reporting
Generate clear, visually engaging reports in Project or Power BI to keep stakeholders informed, highlight key project metrics, track progress, and minimise back-and-forth emails.
Resourcing
Effectively assign and balance resources to optimise workloads, prevent overallocation, and keep projects on schedule with strategic capacity planning.
Steps to build your course
Meet
We start by discussing your needs and objectives while reviewing your project files, ensuring our training is tailored to your specific challenges.
Design
From our consultation, we craft a training program tailored to your business goals and project requirements, ensuring relevance and applicability.
Deliver
Our sessions focus on practical skills, incorporating hands-on exercises and the use of your project files to ensure learning is directly applied to real-world scenarios.
Course content
Familiarise yourself with the Microsoft Project environment, exploring its comprehensive features and how they can be customised to support your project management needs. Understand navigation, toolbars, and settings to maximise project oversight.
Gain a deep understanding of how to configure and use various views and tables within Microsoft Project to effectively manage project data. Learn to utilise tables such as Entry, Tracking, Variance, and Cost, along with views including the Gantt Chart, Detailed Gantt, Tracking Gantt, and Resource Sheet to present and analyze project information clearly. Additionally, master the process of creating custom tables to better meet your specific project management needs.
Learn the intricacies of task creation, from simple to complex structures, and how to organise them effectively to build a robust project timeline. Focus on setting milestones and creating summary tasks that help mark significant phases and structure your project hierarchy. Additionally, understand how to link tasks using the four relationship types—Finish-to-Start, Start-to-Start, Finish-to-Finish, and Start-to-Finish—to accurately model dependencies and project workflows.
Develop skills in setting and managing milestones and understanding their critical role in project tracking. Learn to use summary tasks to group related tasks and manage project sections more effectively.
Explore how to link tasks using the four types of task relationships: Finish-to-Start (FS), Start-to-Start (SS), Finish-to-Finish (FF), and Start-to-Finish (SF). These relationships help create a logical, efficient project schedule.
Learn methods to identify the critical path in your projects, allowing for focused management of tasks that directly impact project timelines. Understanding the critical path is essential for prioritising tasks and allocating resources efficiently.
Master the strategic use of constraints and deadlines to manage and adjust project timelines effectively. Learn how deadlines differ from constraints and how to use both to guide project execution while maintaining flexibility.
Understand the importance of setting baselines and how to use them to track and manage project variance. Learn techniques for measuring slack, handling variance, and implementing acceleration strategies when a project deviates from the baseline.
Develop advanced strategies for allocating and managing resources to avoid overallocation. Learn techniques for identifying resource overallocations and applying levelling techniques to balance resource demand with supply.
Create detailed reports that provide insightful data to stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making and ongoing project evaluation. Learn to customise reports to highlight critical information such as cost performance, task progress, and resource allocation.
Leverage tools like Project Online/PWA to enhance collaboration across project teams, facilitating better communication and real-time updates.
Discover how to seamlessly integrate Microsoft Project with Microsoft Teams, enhancing project communication and collaboration by providing real-time updates and centralized access to project details directly within the Teams environment.
Why choose Project TMA
Customisation
You want customised training to meet your unique challenges and goals, ensuring high relevance and effectiveness.
Delivery
You want flexible online or onsite delivery across Australia in in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart, Darwin, and regional areas.
Experience
Benefit from our 20+ years of experience delivering project success across organisations of all sizes.
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Consulting options
Tailored solutions to meet your project management needs and drive success from start to finish
Scheduling
We assist with creating new project schedules or optimising existing ones and getting them back on track, correcting task linkages, baselining, and tracking your project.
Reports
Integration
We can help you integrate Microsoft Project Professional, Project for the Web, Project Online/PWA, Microsoft Teams, and Power BI with non-Microsoft platforms.
PMO Overview
We can help you develop a comprehensive overview of all your active programs, crafting a master schedule, and managing resources effectively.
Resourcing
We can support you effectively manage resource allocation by applying levelling and additional resourcing to accelerate tasks and ensure timely project completion.