Module 2 - Setting Up Project Files
- Creating and Saving Projects
- Creating a Project from template
- Creating a Project from an Excel Workbook
- Setting up Calendars
- Defining working and non-working time
Microsoft Project Training for Confident Scheduling
Plan, Track, and Deliver
Build practical, job-ready skills in the world's most widely used project scheduling tool. This instructor-led Microsoft Project training course takes planners, coordinators, and PMO professionals from project setup and dependencies to resource leveling, Earned Value, and multi-project reporting, with hands-on exercises in Microsoft Project throughout. Available at Fundamentals and Advanced levels, delivered live online, in the classroom, or onsite for your team.
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Benefits
Who Can Take
What Will Microsoft Project Training Teach You?
Practical Scheduling from Setup to Reporting
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What's Included in Your Microsoft Project Training
Course materials including task scheduling templates, Gantt chart guides and resource planning worksheets
Instructor-led training: 2-day Fundamentals (16 hours) or 3-day Advanced (24 hours), at 8 hours per day
16 PDUs (Fundamentals) or 24 PDUs (Advanced) on completion of the training
Hands-on exercises inside the software
Project plan templates, critical path reference guides, WBS checklists and cost management toolkits
Nine structured modules with topic-wise learning resources
Practice activities, assignments and scenario-based exercises
Course completion certificate from Invensis Learning
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The Payoff of Building Real Scheduling Skills
For Your Projects and Your Career
For Individuals
This training helps planners, coordinators, and project managers build genuine software fluency in Microsoft Project, not just theory. You practice every feature on realistic scenarios, so you leave able to create, manage, and report on a project plan end to end. Whether you are moving off spreadsheets, stepping up from occasional use, or taking on larger portfolios in IT, construction, engineering, or consulting, the two levels meet you where you are.
If you want a practical, in-demand skill that shows up in job descriptions across sectors, Microsoft Project fluency is a clear win. You gain the scheduling, resourcing, and tracking capability that turns a plan into a tool you can actually manage delivery with.
- Plan and control projects confidently using the tool employers expect
- Move from manual trackers to dynamic, dependency-linked schedules
- Qualify for planner, scheduler, PMO, and project controls roles
- Read the critical path and defend your dates with evidence
- Level resources and keep team workloads realistic
- Prove cost and schedule health with Earned Value reporting
- Apply new skills to your own project plans right away
- Complement PMI, PRINCE2, and Agile ways of working
For Organizations
Group training equips whole teams with a shared, practical approach to planning and controlling projects in Microsoft Project. It can be delivered for PMOs, engineering teams, or delivery groups, tailored to how your organization runs projects. For organizations that want consistent, defensible schedules across many projects, this program creates a common scheduling language and repeatable practice.
If plans are built and tracked differently in every team, group training fixes that. Your people learn one reliable way to schedule, resource, baseline, and report, so portfolio-level visibility becomes achievable.
- Standardize scheduling practice across your PMO and delivery teams
- Improve schedule reliability and reduce project slippage
- Give teams consistent baselines, tracking, and reporting
- Balance shared resources across a growing project portfolio
- Deliver training on your own projects and templates
- Build stronger in-house planning capability
- Flexible delivery for onsite, virtual, or blended groups
- Scalable across local, regional, and global teams
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Who Should Take Microsoft Project Training?
Project Managers
Project Coordinators
Team Members involved in project delivery
Business Analysts
IT Professionals
Program Managers
Operations Managers
Professionals transitioning into project management roles
Careers That Value Microsoft Project Skills
Roles, Demand, and Pay
Microsoft Project skills show up in job descriptions across almost every project-driven sector, from construction and engineering to IT, consulting, defense, and financial services. As enterprises run more concurrent projects and PMOs mature into strategy-execution functions, people who complete Microsoft Project training and can build and control reliable schedules are in real demand. The roles run from Project Coordinator and Scheduler up to Planning Engineer, Project Controls Manager, and PMO Lead, and here is what the global market is telling us right now.
Designation
Microsoft Project Professionals : Salary Insights and Trends
Hiring Companies
$55KMin
$72KAverage
$95KMax
Glassdoor, PayScale (US) 2026
AccentureCapgeminiCognizant
Source: Accenture, Capgemini, Cognizant
Industry Challenges Driving Demand for Microsoft Project Skills
Microsoft Project skills are a practical career multiplier for planners, coordinators, and PMO professionals. Join the people who turn plans into controlled, defensible schedules. Start your journey today.
Your Microsoft Project Career ShiftThe Difference Confident Scheduling Makes
Your Before and After
Project work is growing worldwide, and employers increasingly separate people who can control a schedule from those who only track tasks. Here is which side of that line practical Microsoft Project skills put you on.
Sources: Glassdoor, Indeed, Salary.com, PayScale (US) 2026.
Module 3 - Creating Tasks
- Understanding Manual and Auto-scheduling
- Creating a Manual task
- Creating an Auto scheduled task
- Switching between Manual and Automatic scheduling
- Creating a Milestone task
- Creating a Recurring task
- Copying tasks from another program
- Creating a Summary task
- Displaying Summary task
- Organizing tasks in a task list
- Working with work Break Down Structure (WBS) Codes
Module 4 - Linking And Timing Tasks
- Linking tasks
- Adding Lag or Lead time
- Setting Task Date Constraints
- Viewing Tasks and Task links
Module 5 - Creating Resources
- Understanding Resources
- Creating a Work Resource
- Creating a Material Resource
- Setting up costs for Work and Material Resources
- Creating a Cost Resource
Module 6 - Assigning Tasks To Resources
- Understanding Duration, Work and Units
- Assigning Resources to tasks
- Using Team Planner to assign resources
- Finding Over Allocations
- Assigning Resources with effort driven and non-effort driven scheduling
- Modifying Resource Assignments
- Replacing Resources on a task
Module 7 - Working With Views
- Choosing a View
- Working with a Table
- Inserting and Rearranging Table Columns
- Changing the settings for columns in a Table
- Displaying the two views at the same time
- Using the timeline view
- Sorting Tasks and Resources
- Grouping Tasks and Resources
- Filtering Tasks and Resources
- Modifying Task Bar Styles and Task Bar Text
- Modifying Task Bar Layout
- Modifying Text Formatting
Module 8 - Fine Tuning The Project Schedule
- Reviewing the Critical Path
- Using the task Inspector to review Scheduling Issues
- Splitting a Task
- Delaying a Task or Assignment
- Adjusting a work Contour
- Leveling Resources
- Inactivating a Task
Module 9 - Tracking And Managing A Project
- Understanding Baseline, Scheduled and Actual Values
- Saving and Clearing a Baseline
- Adding Tasks to a Baseline
- Updating the Schedule
- Assigning Overtime
- Updating Costs
- Rescheduling Unfinished Work
Module 10 - Viewing And Reporting Project Information
- Viewing Project Report Status
- Looking for Schedule Progress problems
- Looking for Cost Problems
- Working with Graphical Reports
- Using Earned Value
- Printing Views and Reports
Module 11 - Sharing Projects
- Saving to other formats
- Working with the Global Template
- Importing and Exporting
- Sharing Project Information in other ways
Module 1 - Project, project management, and you
- Meet the Project program
- Meet the Project family
- See the new features in Project 2019
- Review features in earlier versions
- Take a project manager’s perspective
Module 2 - Take a guided tour
- Explore the Project user interface
- Manage files and set options in the Backstage view
- Work with schedule details in views
- Use reports to check a plan’s status
Module 3 - Start a new plan
- Create a new plan and set its start date
- Set nonworking days in the project calendar
- Enter the plan title and other properties
Module 4 - Build a task list
- Create tasks
- Switch task scheduling from manual to automatic
- Enter task durations and estimates
- Enter milestone tasks
- Create summary tasks to outline the plan
- Link tasks to create dependencies
- Check a plan’s duration and finish date
- Document task information
Module 5 - Set up resources
- Set up work resources
- Enter the maximum capacity for work resources
- Enter work resource pay rates
- Adjust working time in a resource calendar
- Set up cost resources
- Document resources by using notes
Module 6 - Assign resources to tasks
- Assign work resources to tasks
- Control work when adding or removing resource assignments
- Assign cost resources to tasks
- Check the plan after assigning resources
Module 7 - Format and share your plan
- Customize a Gantt chart view
- Add tasks to a Timeline view
- Customize reports
- Copy views and reports
- Print views and reports
Module 8 - Track progress: Basic techniques
- Understand progress tracking
- Save a baseline of your plan
- Track a plan as scheduled
- Enter a task’s completion percentage
- Enter actual values for tasks
Module 9 - Fine-tune task scheduling
- See task relationships by using Task Path
- Adjust task link relationships
- Control task scheduling by using constraints
- Interrupt work on a task
- Adjust working time for individual tasks
- Control task scheduling by using task types
- See task schedule details by using the Task Inspector
Module 10 - Fine-tune task details
- Enter deadline dates
- Enter fixed costs
- Create a recurring task
- View the plan’s critical path
- Schedule summary tasks manually
Module 11 - Fine-tune resource and assignment details
- Change resource availability over multiple date ranges
- Work with multiple resource pay rates
- Change resource pay rates over different date ranges
- Delay the start of assignments
- Apply contours to assignments
- Create and assign material resources
- View resource capacity
- Adjust assignments in the Team Planner view (Project Professional only)
Module 12 - Fine-tune the Project plan
- Examine resource allocations over time
- Resolve resource overallocations manually
- Level overallocated resources
- Check the plan’s cost and finish date
- Inactivate tasks (Project Professional only)
Module 13 - Organize plan details
- Sort plan details
- Group plan details
- Filter plan details
- Create new tables
- Create new views
Module 14 - Track progress: Detailed techniques
- Update a baseline
- Track actual and remaining work for tasks and assignments
- Track timephased actual work for tasks and assignments
- Reschedule incomplete work
Module 15 - View and report project status
- Examine a plan’s variance
- Identify tasks that have slipped
- Examine task costs
- Examine resource costs
Module 16 - Format and print views: In-depth techniques
- Format a Gantt chart view
- Format a Timeline view
- Format a Network Diagram view
- Format a Calendar view
- Print and export views
Module 17 - Format reports: In-depth techniques
- Create a custom report
- Customize charts in a report
- Customize tables in a report
Module 18 - Customize Project
- Share custom elements between plans
- Record and run macros
- Edit macros
- Customize the ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar
Module 19 - Share information with other programs
- Copy Project data to and from other programs
- Open files in other formats in Project
- Save to other file formats from Project
- Generate reports with Excel and Visio
Module 20 - Consolidate projects and resources
- Share a resource pool across multiple plans
- Consolidate plans
- Create dependencies between plans
Module 21 - Use Agile project management with Project
- Navigate the Agile project management template
- Reset the Agile project management template
- Create the product backlog
- Create the Agile team
- Plan a sprint
- Record progress from daily scrum meetings
- Generate reports for sprint reviews
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Course Curriculum
of the Microsoft Project Training
The online Microsoft Project training curriculum is structured across nine modules, taking learners from foundational interface navigation through to advanced project management features and real-world application.
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Microsoft Project Fundamentals Course Curriculum
Module 1 - Working With Project
- Using the Ribbon
- Navigating the Backstage View
- Finding Commands
Microsoft Project Advanced Course Curriculum
Module 1 - Project, project management, and you
- Meet the Project program
- Meet the Project family
- See the new features in Project 2019
- Review features in earlier versions
- Take a project manager’s perspective
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Skills You Will Build in Microsoft Project
From Setup to Program Control
By the end of the training you can plan, schedule, resource, track, and report on projects in Microsoft Project. These are the core, in-demand capabilities that turn a project plan from a static list into a live tool you use to manage delivery every day.
Build and Schedule a Full Project Plan
Create a project file, configure the calendar, enter a work breakdown structure, and schedule tasks with the four dependency types, lag, and lead time so dates calculate automatically as the plan changes.
Master the Critical Path and Deadlines
Identify the critical path, read total and free float, and use constraints and deadlines to protect key dates without over-constraining your schedule or losing flexibility.
Assign and Balance Resources
Create work, material, and cost resources, assign them with the right units, spot over-allocation, and level workloads so your plan stays realistic and your team is not overloaded.
Track Progress Against a Baseline
Set baselines, record actual progress with percent complete and actual values, and use the Tracking Gantt and variance tables to catch slippage early and report status with confidence.
Manage Cost and Earned Value
Track costs, apply budget resources, and calculate Earned Value metrics such as SPI, CPI, and Estimate at Completion to prove schedule and cost performance to stakeholders.
Report and Scale Across Projects
Build custom fields, views, tables, and reports, then consolidate several plans into a master project with cross-project links for true program-level control and reporting.
Microsoft Project Training Modes
for Professionals and Teams
We offer flexible training formats designed to suit different learning preferences, schedules, and professional goals. Whether you prefer self-paced learning or a structured, corporate, instructor-led experience, choose the option that best supports your skill development journey through the Best Microsoft Project online training options available.
Microsoft Project Classroom Training
Instructor-led classroom sessions
Interactive discussions and group activities
Real-world examples and practical exercises
Structured learning with fixed schedules
Opportunities for peer networking and collaboration
Practice assessments and knowledge checks
Dedicated Q&A and concept clarification
Immediate trainer feedback and support
Learn through face-to-face sessions led by experienced instructors in a collaborative classroom environment. This classroom Microsoft Project training format combines expert guidance, peer interaction, and hands-on activities to create an engaging learning experience.
Best For: Learners who prefer in-person interaction, structured schedules, and collaborative learning experiences.
Microsoft Project Corporate Group Training
Customized training aligned to organizational goals
Flexible delivery: onsite, virtual, hybrid, or blended
Scheduling tailored to business availability
Role-based examples and industry-relevant discussions
Progress tracking and learner assessments where applicable
Dedicated coordination and administrative support
Consistent learning experiences across teams
Scalable delivery for local, regional, or global workforces
Designed for organizations that want to build capabilities at scale, standardize knowledge, and support workforce development through customized team learning initiatives and Microsoft Project corporate training for employees.
Best For: Organizations looking to upskill employees, address capability gaps, and deliver consistent training across teams.
Microsoft Project Focused 1-to-1 Training
One-to-one instructor attention
Customized learning plans and objectives
Flexible scheduling based on availability
Personalized feedback and coaching
Additional focus on challenging topics
Targeted practice and revision support
Faster clarification of questions and concepts
Learning pace is adapted to individual needs
Receive personalized instruction tailored to your goals, pace, and learning requirements through dedicated sessions delivered by our Microsoft Project training institute.
Best For: Professionals seeking personalized guidance, accelerated learning, or focused support to achieve specific outcomes.
Microsoft Project Live Virtual Training
Live online instructor-led sessions
Interactive discussions and virtual activities
Expert guidance from experienced trainers
Practice assessments and revision support
Dedicated Q&A sessions for concept clarification
Fixed schedules for accountability and momentum
Small batch sizes for personalized attention
Access from any location with internet connectivity
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Please Note: Attend fully interactive Microsoft Project training online sessions from anywhere while benefiting from real-time instructor guidance and collaborative learning experiences.
Best For: Professionals seeking the flexibility of online learning without compromising on live instructor interaction.
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As a trusted Microsoft Project training company, Invensis Learning delivers practical, instructor-led courses for individual professionals and organizations that want dependable scheduling skills. Our trainers are seasoned practitioners, so every session connects features to how real projects are planned, resourced, and controlled. Whether you enroll as an individual or arrange training for your team, you get organized courseware, live hands-on practice, flexible formats, and learner support built around real-world application and measurable outcomes.
- Experienced, accredited trainers who use Microsoft Project on real projects
- Hands-on exercises in the software on realistic project scenarios
- Fundamentals and Advanced levels to match your experience
- Flexible delivery: live online, classroom, and onsite corporate formats
- Course completion record from Invensis Learning
- Post-training support and downloadable practice resources
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Microsoft Project Training is a practical, instructor-led course that teaches you to plan, schedule, resource, and track projects using Microsoft Project. It runs at two levels, Fundamentals for new users and Advanced for experienced users, with hands-on exercises throughout and no exam.