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Microsoft Project Introduction – for Construction Contracts/Project – 1 Day

Course Cost £250 +VAT
Duration 1 DAY
Online
  • Designed for construction project team members or managers to learn MS Project basics and plan construction projects.
  • Prerequisites include basic Windows knowledge and familiarity with Microsoft Office applications.
  • Course objectives cover starting a project, task management, scheduling, base calendars, project views, and printing.
  • Content includes project management basics, task insertion, scheduling methods, milestones, dependencies, constraints, and critical path analysis.
  • Also covers project calendars, public holidays, project views, data filtering, grouping, highlighting, and printing project plans.

Overview

The Online MS Project Training Course is designed for construction project team members or Project Managers to learn Microsoft Project basics. Participants will gain skills in planning, scheduling, using views, filtering, and printing construction projects. Prerequisites include basic Windows knowledge and familiarity with Microsoft Office applications. Course objectives cover project planning, task management, scheduling, calendar usage, views, and printing. The course duration is one day.

Who should attend

Project Manager, Construction Project Team

Course Content

Course Description:

This course is designed for people who will be part of a construction project team or a Project Manager to enable an understanding the basics of Microsoft Project and demonstrate how to plan, schedule, use views, filter and print your Construction Project.

Prerequisites:

Delegates attending this course should have a basic knowledge within a Windows environment and preferably have used another Microsoft Office 2016 application i.e. Word or Excel. A basic knowledge of Project Management would be advantageous but not essential.

Please note you are required to have MS Project on your device to attend this course.

Course Objectives

•Start a Construction Project with planning

•Adding Tasks and Dependencies to the Plan

•Understand Project scheduling with focus on key dates for specific trades and critical material orders

•Overview of Base Calendars

•Use Project Views

•Print a Project

Course Content

Starting a Project

Project Management basics

Navigate the Project Interface

Working with Project Tasks

Inserting Tasks to a Project to generate the Construction Phase programme of works.

Manual Vs Auto Scheduling

Recurring Tasks

Using Lag and Lead time

Splitting Tasks

Creating Milestones

Show Slack Time (Float)

Creating Task Dependencies

Using Constraints and Deadlines on tasks

The Critical Path (highlighting essential Construction and Construction Phase processes, trades and materials requred to progress the contract).

Save a Project

Overview of Project Calendars

Types of Calendars in Project 2016

Add Public Holidays

Add Calendars to the Organizer

Overview of Project Views

Task Views and Resource Views

Sheet, Graph and Form Views (tooling essential for tracking Construction related key performance indicators)

Filter your Data

Group your Data

Highlight your Data

Printing a Project Plan

Print Project Views

Adding Headers and Footers

Duration:1 Day

Cost:£250 + Vat

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Who Should Attend

Project Manager, Construction Project Team

Location

This course supports online training.
Course Cost £250 +VAT
Online
Duration 1 DAY

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The trainers knowledge was excellent and I liked his examples and how he could relate them to every day relatable examples that we could all understand. Coming from different industries and sectors his examples were a common ground. It was handled very well virtually and the engagement worked with his questioning and answering

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