MS Project — Comprehensive Project Management (PRJ1)

Microsoft Office, Project

Managing a project means constantly balancing time, resources and costs. This intensive course turns Microsoft Project into your practical tool to keep that balance by teaching setup, logical links, capacity planning and risk spotting on the critical path.

Course emphasizes correct methodology, optimal automatic calculations and identifying hidden risks. You will gain a clear view of project data, avoid common mistakes and learn standardized workflows you can apply immediately in daily project practice.

THIS TRAINING COURSE WILL HELP YOU:

  • Understand project data structure and logic
  • Manage projects, navigate them confidently and produce professional reports
  • Optimize capacities, maximize resource use and control project costs
  • Apply standardized methodologies meeting modern project management needs
  • Obtain reliable inputs for early risk identification and strategic decisions

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

  • Project managers, their assistants and project oversight staff
  • Team leaders needing a tool for planning and capacity coordination
  • Planners, analysts and dispatchers handling schedules, costs and risks

COURSE LOCATION AND AVAILABLE DATES



Choose whether to attend in person in our classroom or join online. You can select your preferred format during registration. Learn more about hybrid training.

Public courses are usually delivered in Czech, but this course is also available in English. We can arrange private training for your team online, at your premises or in our classrooms, and tailor the content to your needs.

For groups of around 4 or more participants, private training can already be comparable in price to booking individual places on a public course. Send us your requirements and we’ll recommend the best format and provide an exact quote.

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Course content:

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  • MS Project application
    1. Concept for project control and documentation, the project data system
    2. Demands vs. benefits – optimizing content and level of detail
  • Working with the application
    1. Workspace and basic skills, data views
    2. Customizing the app and data management, project settings
    3. Scheduling modes, project working rules, database fields
  • Managing project content
    1. Collecting data, tables and forms for stages, efficient procedures
    2. Gantt and network diagrams, timeline and other views, navigating the project
    3. Calendars and time concepts, setting calculation rules
    4. Project hierarchies, management benefits, using inheritance
  • Tasks
    1. Task types, statuses and attributes, WBS, task links and critical path
    2. Constraints and deadline handling, automation – setup and use
  • Resources and assignments
    1. Resource types, assignments, resource pool, leveling, analysis, charts
    2. How assignments affect task behavior by type, correct settings
  • Project tracking and document handling
    1. Data clarity – filters, groups, table and chart formatting
    2. Work (effort) generation, costs (including cost-only items)
    3. Planned vs. actual, baselines, evaluation
    4. Reports – basic use and overview, exports and printing
  • Examples, typical tasks, tips & tricks
    1. Standard paradigms for handling situations
    2. Warnings about common mistakes
    3. Creating templates for future projects
    4. Universal end-to-end project management workflow
Prerequisites:
Basic experience with MS Windows and familiarity with MS Office applications (Excel, Word).
Recommended follow-up course:
Microsoft Project – Project Under the Microscope (PRJ2)
Schedule:
3 days (9:00-17:00)
Price per person:
328.00 € ( 396.88 € incl. 21% VAT)

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