Training

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Introduction

At Project Widgets, we specialize in taking the mystery out of Microsoft Project. All of our training offerings will teach you exactly what you need to know to be successful with this powerful project management tool. With every new release of Microsoft Project, the software becomes more powerful, but also more complex. And the only way to master the advanced capabilities of Microsoft Project is by first mastering the fundamentals.
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Key Benefits

Project Widgets specializes in tailoring our training programs based upon the way an organization is using Microsoft Project. Our training will help you master the fundamentals of Microsoft Project, focusing on exactly what you need to know to perform your job, relating the software features to real-life, practical applications in the workplace. We will also emphasize industry best practices to ensure you are using the software in the most effective way. We deliver our Microsoft Project training at your location, and our instructors are industry experts and published authors in the field of project management. As we tailor our training classes to your business, we use real project plans and resources from your organization as hands-on case studies for the training. We strive to make the training experience completely relevant to the way you run your business. We also offer follow-up mentoring services to reinforce the training classes, working with users one-on-one or in small groups to help them through whatever challenges they face with the software.

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  • Microsoft Project Fundamentals
  • Microsoft Project Server Administration
  • Microsoft Project Executive
  • Microsoft Project Team Member
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Our Microsoft Project Fundamentals class includes topics such as:
  • How to initiate new projects using Enterprise project templates
  • Creating schedules at the appropriate level of detail
  • Understanding generic resources, and using the Build Team feature to replace generic resources with real named resources
  • Unraveling the mysteries of the "Task Type" feature, and exploring the pros and cons of "Fixed Work", "Fixed Duration", and "Fixed Units" tasks
  • Understand how to most effectively use the resource management capabilities of Microsoft Project, including the use of resource leveling
  • Saving the baseline for your project, and practical ways of using multiple baselines
  • How to track and communicate the progress of your projects
  • Managing your project’s issues, risks, and documents via PWA
  • Creating online status reports for your project team using PWA
  • Using views, reports, tables, and filters to help you report and communicate your project status
  • Closing out a project.
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Our Microsoft Project Administration (Project Server and Project Online) class includes such topics as:
  • Adding and managing users and groups, including synchronizing with Active Directory
  • Managing the Enterprise Resource Pool
  • Configuring powerful graphical and PivotTable reports
  • Setting up security using categories and security templates
  • Building and deploying powerful Project Center views and detailed "drill-down" views
  • Configuring "traffic light" graphical indicators to show the status of your projects
  • Sending out alerts and notifications from your company's email system
  • Deleting and archiving projects
  • Creating Enterprise Project templates
  • Setting up Enterprise custom fields, including project-level attributes for roll-up reporting
  • Creating a Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS) to organize your resources
  • Migrating existing data from earlier versions of Microsoft Project
  • Configuring SharePoint collaboration features
  • Configuring Microsoft Project tracking functionality, including the use of "managed periods" to track time via the timesheet feature of PWA.
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Our Microsoft Project Executive training includes such topics as:
  • Viewing your portfolio of projects using the Project Center
  • Drilling down to view the details of a project
  • View your resources in the Resource Center
  • Create charts and PivotTables of projects and resources
  • Identifying resource bottlenecks, and seeing exactly how resources are being utilized in your organization
  • Understanding when it is possible to take on another project based on the availability of key resources
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Our Microsoft Project Team Member/PWA training includes such topics as:
  • Viewing your task list in PWA
  • Tracking your tasks’ progress using timesheets
  • Delegating tasks to another resource
  • Assigning yourself to a new task or an existing task
  • Using PWA to report on the status of project issues
  • Using the status reporting feature of PWA to communicate your major accomplishments, upcoming milestones, and other relevant project information with your project manager