The training programme is designed for project managers and schedulers who wish to utilise the full power of Microsoft Project for simple to complex project planning, control, and portfolio management. It focuses on advanced functionalities for optimizing project delivery, managing multiple projects, and integrating with enterprise-level systems.

Training Objectives and Content:

Resource Management and Optimization:
Learn: How to manage resource allocation, resolve over-allocations, and optimize resource utilization across multiple projects.
Content: Resource leveling techniques (manual and automatic), understanding and customizing resource calendars, cost rate tables, earned value management for resource costs, and resource pooling across projects.

Mastering Multi-Project and Program Management:
Learn: How to effectively manage interdependencies between projects, create master projects, and report on program-level performance.
Content: Creating and managing master projects and subprojects, linking tasks across projects, cross-project dependencies, critical path analysis across multiple projects, and consolidating project data for program reporting.

Customization, Automation, and Reporting:
Learn: How to customize MS Project to organizational needs, automate repetitive tasks, and generate sophisticated custom reports.
Content: Creating and modifying custom fields, tables, views, and filters; using visual reports and custom report templates; recording and editing simple macros for common tasks; and leveraging VBA for advanced customization and data manipulation (introduction to VBA objects in MS Project).

Integration and Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Concepts:
Learn: How to integrate MS Project with other business applications and understand its role in an Enterprise Project Management environment.
Content: Exporting and importing data with Excel and other formats, linking MS Project to SharePoint, an overview of Microsoft Project Server/Project Online capabilities, and understanding the benefits of a centralized EPM system.