Failing to lay the perfect foundation for your schedule is the foundation for failing. Many project professionals failed in their attempts to implement MS Project because they have started off the wrong foot. Focus is the keyword – Focus on the benefits, which is delivering output from your schedule.

• Study 6 hours, create your project file in 2 hours and send the report to your manager the same day
• Don’s worry about settings and easy views, use the included template with all recommended settings.
• The Secret on where to start, and doing nothing more than is necessary
• Schedule upcoming, completed and past Milestones against your Deadlines
• Learn how to generate a Highlight Report directly from MS Project
• Learn how your manager wants to be informed about the status of your project
• Project Management Essentials, such as scope, issues, risks, deliverables, goals, benefits and why having a schedule is so important

Going to the advanced stuff too quickly is an important reason why schedules are unreliable. A small schedule that is manually maintained can be more valuable than a large, ‘advanced’ schedule that is too difficult to properly maintain. We will show you EXACTLY how to set up a schedule that is above all RELIABLE!

• The checklist for a complete backbone of a robust schedule
• Structure your schedule with all best practices regarding tasks and summary tasks
• Learn our Monday morning routine to update your schedule with newest insights
• Use the Baseline functionality as a driving force behind your continuous improvement or work processes
• 4 hours study, enhance your project file in 4 hours and report the same day
• Learn how to generate a report with completed and upcoming tasks per project phase, directly from MS Project

Rarely I find a schedule without those mistakes that add hours of manual labor to an already busy work week. It has become a sport to help project professionals accelerate the efficiency of their schedule, by doing simple things, like changing links, removing unnecessary constraints etcetera. Efficiency also means that a schedule can be shorter. I always accept the challenge to make a schedule several weeks shorter just by focusing on the Critical Path.

• Learn the 3 Secret checks to save up to 4 hours per week on a 100-line schedule
• Use correct links to have MS Project work for you, not the other way around
• Do the exercises to learn to trust MS Projects calculations
• Learn 10 hours, automate your project file in a day, and report to your manager the next day
• Links, constraints, Critical Path Analysis and Management, Progress Tracking in an automated schedule and plan against baselines
• Implement these learnings and your schedule will outperforms 90% of the schedules made throughout the world
• Allow yourself to be lazy, ask all your questions in our chat or community page

At this point you may have a perfect model of your project that will forecast your main deliveries. It could be though that it is not realistic enough yet, as resources induce many additional dependencies. You could think of shortage of resources with a certain skill set, holidays, or responsibilities in other projects. If you or your organization require(s) more, this e-course will explain you how to achieve that.

• Quizzes that help you to understand when to use Fixed Work, Duration or Units
• Learn everything about calendars and how these impact your schedule
• Learn the method to explain your risks of having limited resources to your manager
• Be able to back up your claim that your project is in trouble and you need managerial interaction
• Know the secrets of the resource leveling feature – it is not scary
• Get the solution to explaining why your project will take so much longer
• Use the Resource Views lean & mean and answer all questions on capacity and availability

Many, many times we see that project timing and project resourcing are managed in MS Project, while project finances are kept in Excel. Using the financial governance capacilities in MS Project is often an unexploited area. This is a waste, because only adding rates to resources will already bring you half way. MS Project can calculate anything for you directly from your schedule.

• Get rid of your last separate Excel-sheets and get everything from MS Project
• Learn how to prepare the perfect financial output to your finance department
• Be able to explain the earned value of your project and expected cost at completion
• Generate a financial overview directly from your schedule with all kinds of segmentations of costs
• Rate tables, Materials, Out-of-Pocket, Budgets, learn the exact way of incorporating the complete picture
• Learn how to make custom views, filter and reports
• Learn 6 hours, improve your schedule in a day and generate your financial report the day after