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Whether you are new to project planning or want to make more efficient use of the tools, we have a course for you.

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Classroom Based Courses

View the course outline for the following levels:

Standard	In the standard course you will learn how to create a project, schedule tasks and manage resources.
Intermediate	The intermediate course builds on these concepts and develops skills in working with project plans to ensure you can adapt to changes in project circumstances
Advanced	In our Advanced course you will work with a scenario involving multiple projects sharing a resource pool. You will manage resources throughout the project’s life, create reports and views to specific requirements and export data to other applications.

Not sure what level to attend? Then assess your skills against our standard course. If you are scoring highly in all areas, we may suggest a more advanced course would be suitable. Click here to download the Project standard assessment.

What Clients say...

"Best IT course I've done!"
N Robertson, SPD Ltd, Microsoft Project

"I found the training course to be excellent, very informative and very well laid out. It will be extremely beneficial for me throughout the rest of my career."
S Wilson, Cameron Ltd, Microsoft Project

Virtual Instructor-led Training

You can tackle individual topics in an on-line training session with an instructor. These are interactive sessions, offered on a one-to-one basis. To see what this involves, click here or to make an enquiry by email, click on the topic title. Topics offered include:

Project 2010	Introduction to the new interface and features, and how to handle manual versus automatic scheduling.
Starting Out	Entering project details, main tasks and sub-tasks and creating task relationships to schedule your project.
Working with resources	Adding resources to your plan and resolving resource conflicts.
Working with calendars	Adjust calendars to reflect your working conditions, and apply them to resources.
Costing and financial reporting	Entering all types of cost into your plan, and reporting expenditure.
Critical path analysis	Displaying critical path and using it for analysis.
Working with a resource pool	Share resources between projects and identify resource conflicts.

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Case Study : What happened to my plan?

When you are updating a project plan, do you ever have those moments where you freeze while you try to work out what just happened? Something moved as a knock-on effect of the change you just made, and you find yourself trying to figure out what it was and whether it mattered.

In Project 2007 there are some new features which aim to help you understand the effect of the changes you make.

Visual Change Highlighting

This effect is displayed in the Task Grid of the Gantt chart. When you alter, for example, the duration of a task, all the fields in the grid which are affected are highlighted in blue. In this case, the start and finish dates of any tasks linked to the one you edited are likely to have changed, and the background of these fields will show blue until your next edit.

Task Drivers

Perhaps you don’t spot the knock-on effect right away, but later you wonder why a particular task starts when it does. Click on the Task Drivers tool to display a task pane listing all the things that trigger this task, e.g. predecessor tasks, specific calendars, constraints.

Undo

If all that’s not enough to keep you in control, there is a fantastic new Undo facility, which allows multiple steps to be undone, similar to Undo in Excel and Word. So at least you can go back to where you were before something moved...

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