Advanced MS Project: Agile Project Management Course

Name: Advanced MS Project Training: Scheduling and Agile Workflows
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Master scheduling, resource leveling, portfolio tracking, and agile workflows using Microsoft Project desktop and cloud tools.

Advanced MS Project: Agile Project Management Course

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Duration: 5 days
Format: Classroom
Cities: London, New York, Abu Dhabi, Nice, Nairobi, Singapore and more
Next session: 5 – 9 October 2026, London
Average fee: 5,800 €

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Overview

Microsoft Project users often stop at Gantt bars and manual dates, and miss the features that make a schedule trustworthy. This Advanced MS Project course takes experienced users into the engine of the software: task types and the Work = Duration x Units formula, effort-driven behaviour, auto versus manual scheduling, the Team Planner, resource pools, custom fields with formulas, inserted subprojects, and the Task Board used for sprints in Project Online and Project for the web. Every session is hands-on at the keyboard, working on one sample project file that grows from a blank template to a tracked, reported, multi-project plan. This course is delivered by Agile Leaders Training Center.

Who Should Attend

Existing Microsoft Project users who want to move past basic task lists.
Project schedulers and planners maintaining .mpp files for large programmes.
PMO analysts who build templates, custom views and status reports in MS Project.
IT and software project leads who run sprints alongside a Gantt plan.
Team leads who must share resources between several MS Project files.

Departments and Industries

The course suits any team that standardises on the Microsoft 365 project stack.

PMO and planning teams in IT, telecoms and professional services
Engineering departments using MS Project for design and delivery plans
Marketing and event teams running campaign schedules
Research and product development groups
Government programme offices on Microsoft 365

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Apply fixed units, fixed work or fixed duration task types to control how MS Project recalculates.
Build reusable templates with custom calendars, fields, tables, filters, groups and views.
Use the Team Planner, Resource Usage view and leveling options to fix overallocations.
Analyse multiple baselines and interim plans through the variance columns.
Build a master project of inserted subprojects linked to a shared resource pool file.
Use the Task Board and Sprints view to run sprints and report them next to the Gantt timeline.

Course Agenda

Day 1: Inside the Scheduling Engine

Project options, auto versus manually scheduled tasks and the status date
Task types, effort-driven scheduling and the work formula in practice
Project, resource and task calendars with working-time exceptions
Summary tasks, milestones, recurring tasks and task inactivation
Dependency types, lags, leads and constraints that pin dates

Day 2: Resources in MS Project

Work, material and cost resources, max units and availability contours
Assignment work contours and the Task Usage view
Team Planner drag-and-drop reassignment
Reading overallocation in the Resource Usage and Resource Graph views
Leveling options, leveling delay and the Leveling Gantt

Day 3: Baselines, Tracking and Multiple Files

Saving Baseline 0 to 10 and interim plans
Updating progress with the Tracking table, Update Project and the status date
Reading work, cost and date variance columns against the baseline
Inserted subprojects, master files and cross-file links
Resource pool files: sharing, refreshing and resolving conflicts

Day 4: Agile Features in Project Online and Project for the Web

Creating sprints and assigning tasks in the Sprints view
Task Board columns, cards and the Current Sprint board
Mixing agile and Gantt tasks in one project file
Reporting sprint progress with the built-in agile reports
Syncing with Microsoft Teams and Planner

Day 5: Customisation and Reporting

Custom fields with formulas, lookup tables and graphical indicator icons
Building custom tables, filters, groups and views in the Organizer
Built-in and custom reports, Timeline view and copying to PowerPoint
Exporting to Excel and Power BI templates for dashboards
Walk-through of scenario-style questions on MS Project features

Practical Exercises

All suggested activities are completed in Microsoft Project on the sample file built during the week.

Suggested activity: change task types on the same task and predict how MS Project recalculates work and duration.
Suggested activity: clear red-person overallocation icons using the Team Planner and leveling options.
Suggested activity: merge three department files into a master project linked to one resource pool.
Suggested activity: add a two-sprint agile phase to a traditional plan and report it on one timeline.

FAQs

Which version of Microsoft Project is used?

Exercises use Project Professional desktop; the agile module also demonstrates Project Online and Project for the web, noting which features exist in each.

Is this course suitable for beginners?

Participants should already be able to create tasks, link them and assign resources. The course starts from task types and calendars, not from the ribbon basics.

Does the course include practice questions?

Yes. Day 5 includes a walk-through of scenario-style questions on the features covered, useful for anyone who needs to demonstrate MS Project skills at work.

Conclusion

Participants leave with a working template, a set of custom views and a clear understanding of why MS Project moves their dates, so their schedules become tools they trust rather than drawings they update by hand, and a master plan linked to a resource pool they can reuse on their next programme.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
London	Week 41, 2026 5 – 9 October 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
New York	Week 42, 2026 12 – 16 October 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€12,000
Abu Dhabi	Week 43, 2026 19 – 23 October 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,700
Nice	Week 44, 2026 26 – 30 October 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Nairobi	Week 44, 2026 1 – 5 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,500
Singapore	Week 45, 2026 2 – 6 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Trabzon	Week 46, 2026 15 – 19 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€6,800
Porto	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Marbella	Week 48, 2026 29 November – 3 December 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Johannesburg	Week 50, 2026 13 – 17 December 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,500
Abu Dhabi	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,700
Casablanca	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€4,100
Baku	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,000
Istanbul	Week 01, 2027 4 – 8 January 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€4,500
Sharm El-Sheikh	Week 02, 2027 11 – 15 January 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€4,100
Madrid	Week 02, 2027 11 – 15 January 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Riyadh	Week 02, 2027 17 – 21 January 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
London	Week 03, 2027 18 – 22 January 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Langkawi	Week 03, 2027 24 – 28 January 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€6,000
Kuala Lumpur	Week 04, 2027 25 – 29 January 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,200

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewMicrosoft Project users often stop at Gantt bars and manual dates, and miss the features that make a schedule trustworthy. This Advanced MS Project course takes experienced users into the engine of the software: task types and the Work = Duration x Units formula, effort-driven behaviour, auto versus manual scheduling, the Team Planner, resource po…

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Advanced MS Project: Agile Project Management Course