Microsoft Project Training Course
Microsoft Project Training – Perth Feb 9-10, Sydney March 7-8, Melbourne March 28-29 Or Ask about in-house training
TOURING – Broome Feb 28-29, Bunbury Feb 16-17, Carnarvon, Esperance, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Karratha, Kununurra, Perth, Port Hedland. Register your interest
Our last course held was another great success! Our clients are armed with new ideas and strategies to improve their business processes using Microsoft Project.
Ian from Geraldton said “the course was extremely well set out and provided exactly what was advertised.” See course details for more information. Through our training, attendees have gained the confidence in using MS Project to manage their projects.
Register for our next MS Project course in Perth – Sydney – Melbourne – Broome – Bunbury.
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Trained by Professional Project Manager, Comsultant and Trainer – Brett Anderson from SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS
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Master Builders (MBAWA) recommended Project Management Course (CTF Subsidies available!)
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2-day classes (Check our Course Schedule.)
We teach the ‘best practice’ approach to Microsoft Project. Our Microsoft Project Training is focused on developing practical skills that can be used immediately in the workplace to improve productivity.
Who Should Attend?
- Builders needing to provide clients with a project plan and portray a level of professionalism;
- Construction managers wanting to improve their planning and tracking skills;
- Project Managers wanting to enhance management skills and boost productivity;
- Site supervisors wanting to improve their scheduling of trades;
- Company directors seeking to improve business systems;
- A Carpenter moving into a site supervisory role, wanting to learn some project management skills;
- Shutdown Operators from plants with tight shutdown schedules;
- A newbie looking for a project management career;
- A home builder with multiple projects, wanting to better organise trades and materials;
- Engineers wanting to streamline their processes to reduce their risk and power their efficiency;
- Contract administrators wanting to improve their skill set;
- Engineers requiring better planning and resource management;
- Current Project Managers wanting to learn how to use the software more effectively.
Since 2006, our Microsoft Project training course has provided practical skills to individuals and improved their productivity. Each course runs over 2days 8.30am-5pm (Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Regional WA)
For more details, contact info@microsoftprojecttraining.com.au
Alternatively phone (08) 9401 2338 or m:0413 798 114
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Benefits of Microsoft Project Training
Microsoft Project gives you more control and efficiency over time sensitive projects.
It gets you organised.
Have you ever had a tradesman turn up before you are ready for them because other trades had taken longer than expected? Perhaps you were unable to determine early enough when you needed the next trade. This is a classic failure of a static scheduling system. Whereas with Microsoft Project, the impact on successive tasks from a delay can be immediately determined.
It wins you jobs
If you submit a tender response that contains a glossy brochure about your company and your people, and back this up with a professional Gantt Chart program, your ability to plan and manage in the eyes of a tender evaluation panel will be greater than a competing program that consists of spreadsheet with blocked-out colored cells.
It gets you results.
By tracking and correctly updating your progress in Microsoft Project, you can better estimate the project delivery date and manage expectations. If the Project finish date goes beyond the Contract finish date, you will have the ability to analyse the programme to find a solution to the problem. The predecessor relationships between tasks give you power and more control over your project.
Microsoft Project is a very powerful tool when used correctly. Our Microsoft Project Training is delivered by professional Project Managers who can share with you real life experiences when using the software and give you the best-practice methods of using Microsoft Project.
What is a Gantt Chart ?
Firstly, gant chart, gaant chart, gannt chart, gant charts, ghant chart and even grantt charts are common misspellings of Gantt Chart!
What is the purpose of a Gantt Chart?
A Gantt Chart is a timeline chart that is used in project management to show the project’s schedule.
- You can see individual tasks, their durations and the sequencing of these tasks.
- You can view the overall timeline of the project and the expected completion date.
- As the project moves forward with actual performance updated, the Gantt Chart will adjust simultaneously displaying an up-to-date project schedule with new start and finish dates for tasks and the original baseline of your plan.
View an example of a Gantt Chart below for a Residential Construction.
Gantt Chart example
The bars on the timeline chart indicate the expected duration of tasks. And you can see when each project task is planned to start and finish. The Foundation group is expanded to show you its work-breakdown structure. You can visually see the dependencies between tasks where one needs to be complete before the other starts.
How could you benefit with using a Gantt Chart?
- This Gantt Chart could be used to communicate with your clients. You could show them your project plan and the expected completion date. Your clients can visually see the stages in the project and have a better understanding of the project and key milestone.
- You could provide this Gantt Chart in a tender proposal. Yourt tender response will look appealing when complimented with a professional Gantt Chart program. It can be used to show your understanding of the requirements of the project, and can demonstrate your ability to plan and manage in the eyes of the tender evaluation panel.
- Assist in Communication with Staff and Contractors. You could supply this Gantt Chart to staff and contractors to communicate when their services are required.
- Run your project with greater efficiency with improved cost and time outcomes.
If you want to improve your communication between your clients, contractors and staff, register for our Microsoft Project Training course.
Do you know your Critical Path?
The Critical Path is the longest path through your project and determines the end date of the project.
Why is it important to know where your Critical Path is?
If you need to shorten your project, you need to move some tasks off the Critical Path or shorten the duration of tasks on the Critical Path. One way of doing this is to add resources to a particular task.
But if you do not know where the Critical Path is, you may be applying additional resources to tasks that do not shorten the project at all!!
That is why you need to know your Critical Path.
In our training course, we will show you how to find your Critical Path and demonstrate why it is important to keep track of it so you can manage your projects better.
Why are Project Plans in demand?
Why are Project Plans are in so much more demand now-a-days?
Clients are requesting project plans more and more nowadays to reduce their risk on projects. By requesting a project plan, they are able to evaluate a company’s ability to adequately plan a project.
If you can demonstrate that you can effectively plan a project, identify the resources required and identify the tasks required in a sequence, then it is assumed that there is a higher probability that you can deliver the project to the time, cost and quality objectives.
On the other hand, Contractors themselves are keen to implement a greater level of planning in their business to improve their competitiveness in the market. Also to improve their bottom line by delivering projects for a lower cost or in a shorter timeframe. Their aim is to increase their competitive advantage in terms of time and cost.
If you are looking to demonstrate your company’s ability to deliver projects, Find Out How in our next Microsoft Project Training.
Are your Resources Under-used or Over-allocated?
Have you ever booked a tradesman for a job at the same time as another?
Or do you know if staff are available when you want them?
MS Project makes it easy for you to see if you have over booked your staff.
The best approach to take is to assign people to tasks as you work down your tasklist and allocate the resources required for each task, not considering if that resource is already allocated elsewhere in your program. The functionality of Levelling in MS Project will identify whether you have resource overallocation issues or not.
Once you assign all your resources to the tasks, take a look at your Resource Sheet and ascertain which resources are overallocated. You could use the Levelling function in MS Project to provide you with one possible solution to the resource overallocation.
The Levelling function is simply the moving or delaying of tasks to eliminate the resource overallocation. However, you have the option to assign other resources or find another solution.
You will learn a single and effective approach to assigning resources to tasks and how to effectively use the software to resolve resource overallocation. Check out our next MS Project Training course.
