Managing Projects with MS Project

Managing Projects with MS Project

5-6 March 2026 – Online via Microsoft Teams
9-10 March 2026 – Birchwood Hotel, Boksburg (Johannesburg)
12-13 March 2026  – Protea Hotel, Sea Point (Cape Town)
19-20 March 2026 – Online via Microsoft Teams

MS Project is one of the most comprehensive and popular project management tools. Knowing how to utilise its features will enable you to successfully define, initiate and schedule a project, control and execute a project while communicating progress through reports and views.

This “hands-on” intensive 2-day course focuses on using the MS Project software and features to create a project plan, using a Work Breakdown Structure and Network Diagram and producing over-all project durations and costs. You will use the software’s advanced features to fine tune the project’s scheduling and resource allocation. You will leave with a better understanding of how to use the many features incorporated into the system to make managing any project simpler and more effective.

If you are involved in any aspect of a project, you will learn:

  • The easiest and fastest way to create a project plan using a Quick Reference Guide.

  • What to look out for when receiving someone else’s project plan.

  • How to avoid errors.

  • To customise your fields and set-up user-defined fields.

  • To use Views & Tables and customise these to enhance your reporting.

  • To use formulas to extract data and get the reports you want.

  • How to keep a history of Resource costs and use a Resource Pool.

  • How to create a Master Project.

  • How to resolve Resource overallocations.

  • How to set a Baseline and update an executing project with Work/Actual Work and Overtime etc.

On completion of this course, you will be able to:

    • Quickly and accurately setting up a Project in the MS Project environment and ensure it is correct and reflects the exact needs and specific scope of your project

    • Prepare a comprehensive Task Schedule to define essential activities and milestones that will provide time frames for when each activity needs to be completed

    • Establishing your project’s “Critical Path”, allowing you to constantly monitor and re-assign resources to vital tasks which could otherwise delay the entire project

    • Use customised, graphically illustrated reports drawn from the MS Project software as vital communication tools to ensure all team members are kept up to date with the progress of the project

    • Monitoring, control and track the progress of the project, stage by stage, by comparing Baseline Estimates with Actual Costs to ensure you keep control of the variances

    • Make the most of the “shortcuts” made available in the MS Project software, saving you valuable time while improving the overall structure and management of your project

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