Ms project training from scratch. Using Microsoft Project Professional in Project Management

We are ready to provide you with Microsoft Project training, as well as provide advice on how to use Project to solve your business problems. Moreover, you do not have to go for new knowledge in Training Center: we organize online training with modern means conference calls. You can order individual consultations, or training a small group of specialists from your organization.

Why MS Project courses don't work

As a result of speaking with many of Brise's clients, we have come to understand why traditional Microsoft Project group courses are likely to be of little help to most of their participants.

• The trainer has a typical course program in advance, in which it is impossible to take into account different level training of group members, as well as differences in the learning goals that they set for themselves. This problem is especially acute when the training is not corporate, and a group of employees from various organizations gathers.
• With a large number of students, the trainer does not have the opportunity to pay enough attention to work issues and the difficulties that arise in the learning process for each of them. It sounds paradoxical, but the more the coach earns by training the group, the worse he will train each of its participants.
• Usually courses run only a few days in a row, during which the teacher tries to “download” a lot of information into the student at once, with very limited practice and the inability to comprehend this information in practice. A stunned student may leave a happy review immediately after the course, but after a while it turns out that he has learned very few skills, or not the ones that he will need in practice.
• In the worst case, in a project management course, the training is not in a computer lab, but in front of a whiteboard and a projector screen, and students do not get any practice in using the Project program.

What is the most effective approach to learning?

Several short seminars instead of one long one. Our seminars last no more than 2 hours. At the same time, the breaks between them should be several working days so that the listener can master the acquired knowledge in practice.

Small groups. In group training, we allow no more than five people in a group, and all of them are from the same organization. This will allow employees to share their experiences with each other and help develop general approaches to further work.

No trips to the training center. In the 21st century, with the universal availability of the Internet, spending as much time on a trip to class and back as it takes a seminar itself is an unaffordable luxury.

Who conducts the training: our experts

We offer one-on-one consultations from Microsoft Project experts who do not specialize in training but have extensive hands-on experience with the product. Brise Experts:

• Implement MS Project in organizations of various industries;
• They write articles about using Project in project management, which are published, including on our website;
• Answer numerous questions on one of the main Russian-speaking forums on Project;
• Solve complex technical problems, including when interacting with Project developers;
• Develop additional components for MS Project.

According to our estimates, there are no more than 30 experts of such qualification in the entire CIS, but we offer individual consultations of three of them with by the hour at the price of an ordinary dentist.

Cost of education - 2 500 rubles per hour, regardless of the number of participants (from one to 5 people). When compared to the cost of other popular courses, individual training lasting from 3 hours can be more profitable than the whole course.

Project Training and Consulting Topics

The training program is individual for each student or group, and is compiled based on the results of a preliminary interview. We offer the following popular and important topics that can be included in your curriculum:

• Professional customization of Microsoft Projects or project templates to suit your organization's needs:
  • automatic indicators of the status of tasks (status, deviations in the pace of fulfillment of volumes, delays in deadlines);
  • setting up formulas in custom fields for calculation required indicators tasks (planned % completion and scope of work as of the report date, planned balance, deviations in terms and rates of completion);
  • setting up Gantt chart views and tables to group and display the necessary indicators of tasks and assigned volumes;
  • setting for the manager for all indicators calendar plan(completed and remaining volumes, total earned volumes, deviations by periods and cumulative, budget development, etc.);
  • setting up project templates for accounting for mutual settlements under contracts with contractors;
  • setting up OLAP cube templates for automatic creation charts and Excel pivot tables for any indicators of the tasks of the MS Project project.
• Advice on customizations of examples of your projects and problems arising in MS Project.
• Set up shared workspaces in cloud document storage for remote participants to access project data.
• Data integration between Excel documents and MS Project.

How to get advice

To order a training or consultation, you need to complete the following steps.

If you need help with MS Project, please contact us right now. So far, our experts together can allocate no more than 10 hours a week for consultations, so it is possible that in the future we will have to raise the cost of this service, or provide it by appointment.

Kirilina Marina Nikolaevna
Head of the project office, Head of the corporate training center, Head of the portfolio (programs) of projects. Experienced Lecturer in Project Management. Holder of the prestigious international certificate of the AFW Academy (Germany). Master of Business Administration (MBA), Member of the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. Conducting services corporate training employees of project management methodology and description of business processes in order to optimize them as a business consultant.

Cooperation with SPS-Group (St. Petersburg), Microsoft Corporation, Spetsstroymontazh, etc.

Has experience of cooperation as an independent project management expert with various organizations, including the center innovative development Moscow, KEMS company, Graviongroup personal consultations of top managers in order to optimize the BP, training top managers in the basics project management.

Specialization: project management methodology, project management software (Project, Mindjet), organization of presentations, presentation software (PowerPoint). Several author's courses have been developed: “ business game"Team to take off", "Project management based on GOST", "Building smart maps mindjet manager”, “How to understand art”, “Festival management”.

Has publications: "Journal of Program and Project Management" ID Grebennikova, I keep a regular column "Business World" Internet magazine.

Conducting an audit of the current activities of the organization, organizational structure and current regulatory framework. Identification of existing projects and processes of the organization.

Formalization of project-oriented processes. Building a corporate project management system based on MS Project Server 2016/2013/2010, Lotus Domino. Development of standards and regulations for project management, instructions and manuals. Optimization of the company's project workflow.

Teaching leading managers of the organization the basics of project management. Organization educational process"turnkey": administration, development of a line of courses, marketing activities, promotion strategies. Development of author's teaching methods, taking into account business needs.

Project management. Coordination of goals, deadlines, budget. Planning and control of work execution. Managing requirements and requirements changes. Variance and risk management. Work with primary accounting documentation, personnel. Selection and optimization of project teams, development of KPI.

Marina Nikolaevna constantly improves her professional level. Implemented over 15 major projects. She knows how to convey the material to everyone, answers in detail all questions on the topic of the classes, shares with the audience her vast experience gained in practical work.

Cost of education: for individuals - 7,000 rubles. / for organizations - 8,000 rubles. Completion certificate:At the end of the course, students receive a certificate from PM Expert - PMI® Global Registered Education Provider, and will be able to credit 8 study hours (PDU / Contact Hours) to pass the exam for the PMP® degree and extend the PMP® status.

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The course is designed to teach students the basic skills of working in MS Project Professional and is the first step for further learning to work in these programs.

The course covers the most common tasks:

• scheduling;
• resource planning;
• cost planning;
• modeling of various scenarios for project implementation;
• effective use of MS Project in Russian companies;

Learning Outcomes

As a result of studying the course, students will be able to:

• Develop a project schedule in MS Project
• Develop project budget in MS Project
• Use tools for analyzing project implementation options

Course trainers

• — Head of Oil and Gas Projects Department PM Expert
• Alexander Chernobrivets, PME, MCTS - Planning, Reporting and Risk Manager PM Expert

Lecture hall

Are you going to the training center to give your money for Microsoft Project training and lose 3 working days? Find money and time best use! I publish videos and materials of the standard 3-day Microsoft Project 2010/2013 training course, which in the corporate version costs about 200,000 rubles. More precisely, it cost, because. now it's free including sample files and course book.

Why such an incredible gift? This is a sponsorship program, manufacturers help us industry solutions for Microsoft Project such as Turbo Planner (Capstroy, PIR/R&D and IT).

Now we are publishing a complete analogue of the most expensive course on MS Project and in a more effective form of e-learning through videos, documentation, example files.

Handouts and course documentation

There are handouts for the video course in the form of Microsoft Project and a book.

You can download them below.

Quick introduction to Microsoft Project 2013 and Visual Resource Optimizer in half an hour

1. Introduction to the project management methodology based on the ISO 21500 standard and a complete overview of the MS Project 2013 interface

a. Project Concept

b. General principles project management

c. The main stages of working with the project

d. Project management automation tools

e. General overview of Microsoft Project 2013

I included in this block the first in the CIS introduction to the project management methodology based on ISO standard 21500 explaining the difference between the concept of a project according to the ISO methodology and PMI. The course focuses on the limits of applicability of standard methods and from what point it is necessary to use industry solutions. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the scheduler as a success of implementation. This introduction turned out to be unique in its way in its emphasis on the limits of applicability and risks from the introduction of standard methodologies, which is usually hushed up by trainers. Judging by the number of "endorsements" on YouTube, the community found this introduction to modern project management methodology very effective.

The standard course on MS Project in the most expensive 3-day version, in my opinion, has a methodological error. The fact is that trainers tell how the MS Project interface works, ignoring the fact that they overload beginners with redundant information. As I already noted, the "quick introductions" with which we started the course are more effective. However, we specifically follow the standard curriculum so that there are no blocks from the standard curriculum that are not covered by our free courses.

Below is a complete overview of all menus and all options of Microsoft Project 2013. In fact, this block is more useful for advanced users, because. probably many were tormented by the question "what is this button?". Here it is told about all the buttons and what they do. However, even listing MS Project functionality took one hour. If you are a beginner, it might be worth skipping this block. "overload" from the abundance of information is possible, go further through the program, and then return to this lesson.

2.Creating a new project and a quick introduction to network planning

a. Create a new project from scratch and based on a template

b.Setting project parameters

c.Project Timeline

d. Top-down planning

A standard commercial MS Project course usually starts with creating projects. However, trainers are silent about the limitations of MS Project functionality in the practical applicability of templates, as well as the features of the Excel-like functions that Microsoft introduced into the product to increase its sales. I highlight in this block the risks from the rash implementation of MS Project "first line of use" functions, which are designed largely by sellers, and not by methodologists.

If you don't want to know why MS Project templates are rarely implemented, you can scroll to the beginning of the video, there is a link for this.

This lesson contains another block on a quick introduction to network planning, but it is much easier than in the 30-minute crash course at the very beginning of our educational package.

3. Working with tasks as part of the project

a. Task Concept

b. Creating, editing, deleting tasks

c. Establishing links between tasks. Team Respect Connections

d. Create a task hierarchy

e. Task parameters (duration, restrictions, method of calculating labor costs, etc.)

f. Special task types (recurring tasks, milestones, interrupted tasks)

g. Browse the most typical situations associated with changing the parameters of work

This video contains a recording of a block of standard commercial course by MS Project 2013 with coverage of all task options in the project. In contrast to the mechanical presentation of options by trainers, the course focuses on those options that are actually used, and also shows how MS Project automatically switches restrictions on tasks, which is a surprise for many users.

As practice shows, when working with project tasks, exotic connection parameters are very rarely needed, but the methodology for creating Hierarchical Work Structures (WBS) is much more important. I made a video tutorial that highlights the creation of work structures from a methodological point of view, ignoring rare options. If methodology is more important to you, and not sorting through all the options as in the previous lesson, then you can see this version of the story on how the work structures are made.

4.Resource and budget planning

a. Resource types

b. Set up project and resource calendars

c. Resource assignment. Planning "from resources" and "from works"

d. Working with Resource Costs

This video tutorial contains at its beginning a small repetition about network planning, because. many people know how to operate with tasks, but do not know how to use MS Project resources. The lesson is designed so that you can watch it in isolation from others. This tutorial shows the subtle effects of resource management options on MS Project tasks. Some of the questions are taken out in the MS Project reporting lesson below, which shows how to manipulate resources and new MS Project 2013 reports to build a Movement Money including balances and turnovers in periods.

5. Analysis and optimization of the project

a. Resource overload and its elimination. Automatic resource leveling feature
b. Task Path
c. Team Planner resource optimizer
d. Project budget analysis
e. Analysis of the project schedule. Critical path method.
f. Risk Analysis
g. Project optimization

An overview of the resource optimizer and alignment we have included in basic knowledge with considering current trends. Some of the project analysis questions are discussed in the reporting section below. In this section, another lesson on the Critical Path will be added.

6. Project execution management and plan/factual analysis

a. Working with base and intermediate plans

b. Entering actual parameters

c. Project implementation analysis. Earned value method

d. Project adjustment

The first lesson shows the actual plan/fact analysis technique that many trainers hide from users in order to sell "consulting" later. Although, in fact, this is where the main value of MS Project is as a product that, like Excel, has developed formulas. I showed how the actual execution is entered and then the standard technique, how arbitrary "performance indicators" for the project are derived using formulas and graphical indicators.

The next lesson is probably the most difficult in this course. Here we consider not just the Earned Value methodology, but its innovative variant modified by Microsoft. However, only by such non-obvious methods can you reach the correct percentages of completion according to plan / fact. In my experience, course participants cannot perceive such material only in lecture form. Download my sample project and try the steps again.

Only 5% of users can now use such techniques, but it is the ability to use them that is the symptom of whether you need to call a consultant for help or not.

7. Completion of the project and technique for calculating the standards after the fact

Usually, trainers talk in a very short way about the technique of data processing in a project after it is closed. This lesson covers know how to obtain top-down norms for the ratio of types of work in the project by analyzing the collected factual information.