Introducing Project Management with MS Project - Online

Delivering projects on time and within budget requires clear planning, structured scheduling, and accurate progress tracking. This practical training course introduces the fundamentals of project management while developing essential skills in Microsoft Project. Through guided exercises and real-world examples, participants learn how to build project schedules, manage resources, visualise timelines, and monitor performance — enabling better decisions, improved communication, and stronger project outcomes.

What’s it for?

This course is designed to help people plan, organise, schedule, and manage projects more effectively — using both project management principles and Microsoft Project software. In short: it helps individuals and teams deliver projects more successfully by giving them the skills, tools, and confidence to manage work professionally.

Who should attend?

This course is ideal for new and aspiring project managers, Project coordinators and team leaders, Engineers and technical specialists involved in project delivery, Business analysts and planners, PMO staff and project support officers, Functional managers responsible for delivering project work, Anyone expected to schedule, track, or report on projects using MS Project, Professionals seeking practical project planning skills

What will you learn?

By attending this course, you will be able to understand core project management concepts and terminology, Build a structured Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Create and schedule tasks in Microsoft Project, Apply durations, dependencies, milestones, and critical paths, Assign and manage resources, workloads, and costs, Use Gantt charts to visualise and monitor project progress, Set a baseline and compare planned vs. actual performance, Identify schedule risks, bottlenecks, and over-allocations, Generate useful project reports, views, and dashboards, Confidently use MS Project as a practical project planning and tracking tool.