Project Management with Microsoft Project
For many people learning how to use Microsoft Project means learning the basics of Project Management at the same time. Training 26 can teach you how to understand Project Management and how to use those concepts within the Microsoft Project software.
While there are many ‘project’ packages around Microsoft Project has been the industry standard for many years, and increases its hold on the market by the day. Without Microsoft Project you may have a combination of lists in Excel, tables of necessary resources in Word, post-it notes on a board, flow-chart drawings on paper or a drawing package and your own mental recall to complete your projects. With any project beyond a couple of weeks this can fast become unfeasible. Microsoft Project can help you plan all your schedules, resources and costs. It can track your actual progress and costs against your original estimates. It generates numerous tabular reports and also produces a number of visual reports, most commonly known being the Gantt Chart.
Project Management is one of the most in-demand business skills, and this applies across all types of organisations and across both public and private sectors. Project Management is a methodology and the discipline of planning, organising, and managing resources to complete specific goals. Any manager requires knowledge of their subject matter. A Finance manager needs to know their numbers, an HR manager needs to know human resources, and so on. The difference with Project Managers is that they have to be an expert general manager which is highly focused to achieve results across a range of disciplines with a defined scope and accepted quality levels.
There is no denying that Microsoft Project is a very powerful technical tool and in order to use it to its full potential you do require an amount of dedication to the learning process. Training 26 can offer you four possible training solutions and each can be delivered either in our Leeds based training centre or on your own business premises. These are as follows;
• A two-day Introductory level course in Microsoft Project which will give a firm understanding of the software and enable users to prepare, interpret and utilise their project plans
• A one (or two) day Advanced level course in Microsoft Project which will focus on customising features to create all types of custom elements within projects and how to manage multiple projects
• A single-day course in Project Management which provides an accessible and functional introduction to the principles of Project Planning and Project Management
• A three-day course in Project Management using Microsoft Project
