55180-A: Introduction to Microsoft Project 2016: Getting Started

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in creating, scheduling, tracking, and communicating project plans with Microsoft Project 2016. The learning path progresses from planning and essential concepts to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, instructor-led demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Each topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals build dependable skills, explain their decisions, identify failure points, and create an actionable improvement plan that can be applied to future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Navigate Microsoft Project views, tables, fields, options, and project-information settings
• Define objectives, deliverables, calendars, working time, constraints, and planning assumptions
• Build a work breakdown structure with durations, dependencies, leads, lags, and milestones
• Interpret slack, critical path, scheduling warnings, deadlines, and task constraints
• Create resource pools, assignments, rates, calendars, and cost information
• Identify overallocations and evaluate leveling, sequencing, scope, time, and resource trade-offs
• Set baselines and update actuals, remaining work, dates, costs, and completion information
• Use variance views, reports, timelines, filters, and status communication practices

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.