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Microsoft Project

Successful projects need clear structure and consistent oversight. Microsoft Project helps teams plan tasks, allocate resources, and track progress from start to finish.

Key topics

  • Defining project scope and breaking work into structured tasks.
  • Building Gantt charts and using network diagrams for schedule visualization.
  • Analyzing critical paths and resolving resource conflicts.
  • Monitoring resource allocation and keeping budgets on track.
  • Evaluating project performance against defined key indicators.
  • Generating management reports and communicating project status.

Prerequisite
Participants benefit from prior experience in project work and a working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Target group
Suitable for project managers, planning coordinators, PMO team members, and professionals handling cross-team scheduling.

Well-structured project management reduces uncertainty, improves decision-making, and drives lasting results.

Course content
  • Introduction to project planning fundamentals
  • Core concepts of project management
  • Planning tasks, assigning resources, and controlling costs
  • Principles of effective project coordination
  • Defining project phases and individual tasks
  • Setting and organizing milestones within the plan
  • Understanding and mapping task dependencies
  • Locating critical paths and calculating buffers
  • Allocating dates and managing deadlines
  • Building timeline views for project overview
  • Setting up resource types – labor, materials, and cost items
  • Linking resources to tasks and exploring input methods
  • Understanding fixed units, fixed duration, and fixed work task types
  • Detecting and resolving resource overloads
  • Reviewing utilization and cost data across different views
  • Base calendar and project calendar settings
  • Resource availability calendars
  • Schedule adjustments and working time definitions
  • Establishing a baseline for plan-versus-actual analysis
  • Recording progress data and reviewing current status
  • Comparing baseline and actual figures in tables and Gantt views
  • Reading and interpreting built-in project reports
  • Applying insights from practical case studies
  • Adapting project views to suit different reporting needs
  • Configuring print layouts and output settings

Up to 100% funding for your continuing education

Attractive funding opportunities are available for numerous continuing education programs – depending on the funding program, up to 100% funding is possible.
The requirement is that you live or work in Germany. Our funding opportunities are not available outside of Germany.

Funding opportunities are available for career starters, job seekers, career changers, startups, experienced professionals, those seeking career advancement, and specialists.