The project management training with Microsoft Project gives you all the tools to plan, drive and control your projects with the Microsoft reference tool. Over three intensive days, you master schedule creation, resource management, progress tracking and project reporting. A highly sought after skill for project managers in French speaking Switzerland.
Drive a project with rigor and anticipation thanks to Microsoft Project
On the project management market, knowing how to handle Microsoft Project clearly distinguishes structured project managers from others. This Microsoft Project training focuses on hands on cases: Gantt schedule, resource management, critical path, cost tracking. Once the training is over, you walk away with a complete method and a course guide to drive your next project confidently.
Module 1: Overview of project management
Module 2: Overview of Microsoft Project
Module 3: Defining a project
Module 4: Preparing project tasks
Module 5: Preparing project resources
Module 6: Assigning resources to tasks
Module 7: Optimizing the project plan
Module 8: Presenting and reporting on the project (views, reports, and visual reports)
Module 9: Executing the project
Module 10: Monitoring the project (variance analysis, plan revision, and change control)
Module 11: Closing the project
Module 12: Consolidating multiple projects
Project management is today a central skill in most organizations in French speaking Switzerland. Whether to drive an IT rollout, an innovation project, an organizational redesign or a transformation program, knowing how to build a structured schedule and follow it rigorously directly makes the difference between a controlled project and one that derails. The Microsoft Project training delivers these tools over three intensive days.
The practical impact is strong: a well built Project schedule helps anticipate delays, arbitrate resources, communicate with sponsors and stay on course when the unexpected happens.
The training places significant focus on schedule construction. You learn to break the project into tasks, hierarchize them as phases and sub-phases (WBS), define durations and dependencies between tasks, integrate milestones and calendar constraints. This initial structuring conditions the rest of the steering.
The Gantt diagram, the main view of Microsoft Project, is studied in detail: reading, manipulation, formatting. You learn to present it clearly to a non-technical steering committee.
The second pillar is resource management. You allocate human resources (skills, loads, availability) and material resources (equipment, budgets) to project tasks, and identify over-allocations that threaten the schedule. Microsoft Project offers leveling tools to resolve these conflicts.
The critical path is one of Microsoft Project’s key concepts. The training explains its logic, how to identify it in Project and how to exploit it to prioritize arbitrations.
Real progress tracking relies on initial planning saved as baseline. You learn to enter the progress of each task, compare actual to planned and measure gaps to adjust steering.
Microsoft Project offers predefined and customizable reports to communicate project status: dashboard, progress status, loads by resource, budget variances. The training shows you how to generate, customize and export them for your steering committees.
The Microsoft Project training is designed for project managers, program managers, PMO, consultants and any profile driving or planning to drive significant projects. Basic knowledge of project management concepts is useful but not mandatory.
At ITTA, in our Carouge and Le Flon centers, this Microsoft Project training runs over three intensive days with an expert instructor and a limited group. You build your own project in session and walk away with a complete guide and reusable templates.
What is Microsoft Project?
Microsoft Project is Microsoft’s project management tool. It allows planning, driving and tracking a project via Gantt diagram, resource management, progress tracking and reporting.
Do I need to know project management before this training?
Basic concept knowledge (tasks, planning, resources, milestones) is useful. The training can serve as a discovery of structured project management for motivated beginners.
Is Microsoft Project included in Microsoft 365?
No, Microsoft Project requires a separate license (Project Plan 1, 3 or 5 depending on needs).
What is the difference between Project and Excel for project management?
Excel is enough for simple projects. Project becomes necessary as soon as you have task dependencies, a critical path to calculate or fine resource management.
Is the training available in person in Geneva?
Yes, the Microsoft Project training is held at the ITTA center in Carouge in Geneva, at Le Flon in Lausanne and in a virtual classroom.
How fast can you reach a good level on Microsoft Project?
The basics are acquired in three structured days. Mastery comes with practice on your own projects.
Does this training prepare for PRINCE2 or PMI?
This training focuses on the Project tool. For PRINCE2 or PMI methodology, dedicated trainings take the relay.
Project managers, planners, team leaders in charge of structured projects, transformation profiles and IT managing complex projects. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, consulting and growing SMEs. No specific prerequisite is required other than a concrete willingness to progress on the subject.
You leave with an operational mastery of the fundamentals, reusable canvases on your concrete cases, a structured action plan for the weeks that follow. Many participants report a visible effect from the first week back, with sustainable anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course combines short theory inputs, practical exercises on your real situations and personalized trainer debrief.
A project leader structuring a 6-month project with WBS, Gantt and critical path. A planner piloting resources on 5 simultaneous projects. A transformation leader tracking progress with Project structured indicators. The course adapts exercises to your context with personalized trainer feedback, and each participant leaves with an action plan calibrated to their own situation.
This training combines well with project management methods (PRINCE2, PMI), Microsoft Teams for collaboration, and Power BI for consolidated reporting. Many participants enroll in one of these courses in the following trimester, according to their current priority and professional context.
Microsoft Project remains the reference in Microsoft environments for structured project management (waterfall, hybrid). Recent evolutions (Project for the Web, Microsoft 365 integration, Power Platform) modernize the tool without destabilizing it. This training targets project managers wanting to master this essential tool.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs in a small group with an expert trainer and a format alternating concise theory, practical exercises and personalized debrief. Group confidentiality is explicit and held. Each participant arrives with a real case and leaves with an action plan calibrated to their context. The course integrates recent evolutions of the domain (digital tools, hybrid formats, 2025-2026 practices) without losing focus on fundamentals.
Which Project version is covered?
The course covers Project Desktop and mentions Project for the Web.
Suitable for beginner project managers?
Yes, the course lays fundamentals.
Need PMP or PRINCE2 certification?
No, but these methods are mentioned.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers in French speaking Switzerland: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Cotes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
