MS Project Fast Track Essentials

This online course is for anyone who has not used MS Project before, or is self-taught and has gaps in their knowledge, and would like to manage their project using MS Project. By the end of the course you will be able to use the basic features in MS Project to create a project plan, manage resources and perform basic tracking.

Course Overview

If you’re new to MS Project or need a clear, concise way to manage your projects with it, this session is for you. In just one day, you’ll get hands-on with the software, explore how it fits into your planning process, and learn how to avoid common pitfalls.

You’ll build a simple but effective project plan from scratch, working with tasks, dependencies and baselines—so you can keep everything on track from start to finish.

 

Why take this course?

  • Learn the essentials of MS Project in one focused day
  • Get hands-on practice with real project planning scenarios
  • Understand dependencies, durations, constraints and baselines
  • Track project progress and make updates with confidence
  • Avoid overcomplicating your plan with features you don’t need

Who is this course for?

This course is ideal for anyone new to Microsoft Project or using it in a basic way—especially project managers, team leads or anyone tasked with planning and monitoring project delivery.

Duration

1 day

Classroom size

8 approx.

Location

Online or Classroom

Certificate

1 Certification

Experience

Beginner

What you will learn

  • Create a project in a Gantt chart view
  • Schedule tasks based on their dependencies
  • Create constraints and deadlines
  • Enter and assign resources
  • Track the project so that delayed tasks will be rescheduled

Curriculum & Key Themes Covered

This course will be taught in the latest version of the software. We can train this in older versions if needed – please get in touch for more information and availability.

Session 1

  • Introducing Project
  • The GANTT chart view
  • Creating a new project & project information
  • Entering holidays
  • Entering Tasks and durations
  • Milestones
  • Outlining – creating summary tasks
  • Saving the Project

Session 2

  • Linking Tasks
  • Zooming
  • Navigating to tasks
  • Lag and Lead
  • Constraints
  • Deadlines

Session 3

  • Creating Resources
  • Resource Working Times
  • Allocating Resources to Tasks
  • Applying a filter

Session 4

  • Baselines
  • Tracking the Project
  • Updating the Project
  • Project Statistics

Ready to take the next step?

We are here to help!

This course is only available as a one-to-one or private group booking.

For pricing and availability, send us a message using the form, leave us a message on 020 7375 7300, or speak to an Account Manager straight away using our Live Chat service in the bottom right of your screen!

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Looking for Private Group Training?

If you have three or more learners, a private group training could be cheaper.

We can tailor the content to your team, and host the training remotely, at your workplace or here at Happy’s HQ in Aldgate, Central London.

The Happy guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course.

We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

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Classroom or live online learning available

Both available for public and private dates.

The small print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for a full day consisting of three 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven’t received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. Unfortunately you will be asked to leave and attend a different day if you arrive more than 15 minutes late for online sessions, and more than 30 minutes late for classroom sessions.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy’s HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

FAQs

What if I have a Mac?

If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor). For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.