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How to Plan Your Project Using Microsoft Project
Learn how to plan project scope, schedule, resources and budget, track project progress and create project reports
Last updated 4/2026
English
What you'll learn
- Learn how to create a comprehensive project management plan
- Learn how to track the project progress according to the project management plan
- Learn how to create project reports and track variances
- Learn How to create Work Breakdown Structure WBS
- Learn how to create tasks and how to sequence them
- Learn how to create calendars non-working days for the project or for each resource
- How to determine relationships between tasks and their duration
- Learn how to determine needed resources, their calendars and rates
- Learn how to assign resources to tasks
- Learn how to create a project schedule
- Learn how to determine over-allocated resources
- Learn how to create a project budget
- Monitor project progress determine start &end dates &percent complete for each task
- Earned Value Management
- Learn how to create different project views
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Course content
12 sections • 37 lectures • 5h 32m total length
Requirements
- Basic knowledge about project management
- Basic knowledge about Microsoft Excel
- Basic computer skills
- Microsoft Project (2013 or later) or Microsoft Project Online
Description
Master Microsoft Project: Plan, Track, and Deliver Successful Projects
Like any other profession, project management has its own tools. If you work as a project manager, you need to have your tools which enable you to get your work done.
You need to have a tool to help you create WBS, determine activities durations, relationships between activities, determine project resources, assign resources to activities, create project schedule, determine project critical path and create project budget.
Learn Microsoft Project from basics to advanced features! Master project management skills, create effective schedules, allocate resources, and track progress efficiently.
Course Overview
In this comprehensive course, you'll gain hands-on expertise in Microsoft Project, the industry-leading project management tool. Our step-by-step tutorials cover:
1. Setting up projects: Creating new projects, understanding project calendars, and setting base calendars.
2. Task management: Creating and linking tasks, setting dependencies, and assigning resources.
3. Resource allocation: Assigning and leveling resources, understanding resource utilization.
4. Scheduling: Creating Gantt charts, setting deadlines, and understanding critical path.
5. Budgeting: Creating project budget and determining the cost of each activity.
6. Tracking progress: Baseline creation, tracking actual work, and understanding earned value management.
7. Microsoft Project views: Understand different views for Microsoft Project.
8. Real-world applications: Practical examples and case studies to reinforce learning.
9. Creating Reports: Learn how to create different reports using Microsoft Project.
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Who this course is for:
- Project Managers
- Planning Managers
- Planners
- Planning Engineers
- Program Managers
- University Students
- Engineers in all fields
- Portfolio Managers
- Project Team Members