In-house course
Microsoft Project Training — schedules that stay useful after week three
Two days at your office, building and tracking a real schedule from one of your own projects.
- Duration
- 2 days
- 14 hours
- Delivered
- At your premises
- Including Sarawak and Sabah
- HRD Corp ceiling
- RM21,000
- For 2 days, whole group
What your team will be able to do
- Set up a project correctly: start date, calendars, working time and task mode
- Build a work breakdown with summary tasks and milestones
- Link tasks with the right dependency types, lags and leads so dates calculate themselves
- Identify the critical path and see what really drives the finish date
- Assign resources, spot over-allocation and level it sensibly
- Save a baseline and track actual progress against it
- Produce the views and reports a sponsor actually reads
- Maintain a schedule weekly in minutes rather than rebuilding it
Who it is for
- · Project coordinators, planners and engineers who already use Project informally
- · Construction, engineering, oil and gas, and IT teams running scheduled work
- · Organisations standardising on Microsoft Project across a projects team
- · Teams whose schedules are rebuilt from scratch for every report
When something else fits better
- · Teams who need project-management method rather than software skills
- · Users of Primavera P6 — a different product with its own training
- · Anyone without Microsoft Project desktop installed on their laptop
About this course
Microsoft Project is easy to open and hard to use well. Most schedules built in it look fine on the day they are presented and are abandoned a few weeks later, because the dates were typed in by hand, the dependencies were never linked, and updating progress became more work than it was worth. The software then gets blamed for what was really a set-up problem.
This course teaches Project the way scheduling teams actually need it: setting the project up correctly, letting dependencies and durations drive the dates instead of typing them, loading resources realistically, saving a baseline, and then tracking progress so the schedule tells you something true each week. Every exercise is done on a real project supplied during scoping — a fit-out, a system rollout, a plant shutdown, a construction package.
It is a software course. It assumes participants know what a project is and focuses on making the tool do the work; teams that also need project-management method can combine it with that training separately.
Cost and funding
Who pays for it
In-house training is priced per group, not per person, and HRD Corp reimburses it per group too — up to RM10,500 per full day where the provider and course are registered and your company applies before the training. Put in your numbers to see what your levy covers.
The levy ledger
What your company already contributes, what this costs, and what is at risk if nobody claims.
Your monthly levy
RM3,000
1% of monthly wages — compulsory
HRD Corp reimburses up to
RM21,000
About RM1,400 per person at 15 people
At risk of forfeiture
RM62,000
Two years of contributions above the RM10,000 floor, if no claim is made
At your contribution rate, the claimable ceiling for this course is roughly 7.0 months of levy — money already leaving the payroll every month whether it is used or not.
Send it to whoever signs
The numbers above, written as an email. Edit it, then forward it.
An estimate, not advice. Levy rates and the forfeiture rule are HRD Corp’s, read 10 September 2026; the reimbursement ceiling is from HRD Corp’s Allowable Cost Matrix (January 2026 version), read 25 September 2026. Your actual balance depends on your claim history. Confirm your position with HRD Corp.
Course outline
Indicative. The final agenda is built from your team’s own files and processes during scoping, and adjusted to the group’s level from a short skills check before the course.
01Day 1 — Setting up properly
- · Auto-scheduled versus manually scheduled tasks, and why the default matters
- · Project information, calendars, public holidays and working time
- · Summary tasks, subtasks and milestones from a work breakdown
- · Durations, effort and the difference between them
02Day 1 — Dependencies and the critical path
- · Finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish, and lag and lead time
- · Constraints and deadlines, and why too many constraints break a schedule
- · Displaying and reading the critical path
- · Checking a schedule for missing links and dangling tasks
03Day 2 — Resources and cost
- · Work, material and cost resources in the resource sheet
- · Assigning resources and understanding task types
- · Finding over-allocation in the Resource Usage and Team Planner views
- · Levelling resources, and when to fix it by hand instead
04Day 2 — Baselines, tracking and reporting
- · Saving and comparing baselines
- · Updating progress: percent complete, actual dates and remaining duration
- · Tracking Gantt and variance analysis
- · Built-in reports, custom views, filters and printing a readable schedule
05Day 2 — Working as a team
- · Templates for recurring project types
- · Consolidating several projects into a master schedule
- · Sharing schedules with people who do not have Project
Format and delivery
| Detail | |
|---|---|
| Duration | 2 days |
| Contact hours | 14 hours |
| Group size | From 2; 15–20 works best, larger teams run as batches |
| Equipment | One laptop per participant with the software installed |
| Location | Your premises, anywhere in Malaysia including Sarawak and Sabah |
| Format | In person. Online delivery possible where a team is split |
| Pricing | Quoted per group per day, after scoping |
| Funding | HRD Corp claimable where provider and course are registered |
| Certificate | Certificate of attendance |
Questions
›Which version of Microsoft Project is covered?
The course is taught on Microsoft Project for the desktop, which is what most scheduling teams in Malaysia use. Microsoft also offers web-based planning tools with a different feature set.
Tell us which you have when you request a quote. Each participant needs the desktop application installed and licensed on their own laptop.
›Do participants need project-management knowledge first?
A working idea of what a schedule is and why tasks depend on each other is enough. The course is about the software; it does not teach project-management method in depth.
›Can we use one of our own projects?
Yes, that is the recommended format. Send a current project’s scope or a rough task list during scoping and the exercises are built on it. By the end of day two the group has a baselined, linked schedule for that project.
›Is Microsoft Project training HRD Corp claimable?
Yes, where the provider and the specific course are registered with HRD Corp and the employer applies before the training takes place. In-house fees are capped per group per day, so a full team gets the most from the claim.
›We plan in Excel today. Is it worth moving to Microsoft Project?
It depends on how many tasks depend on each other. A spreadsheet works for a list of dates. Once a delay in one task should move a dozen others automatically, or several people share the same resources, Project does that arithmetic for you and Excel does not.
If your team is undecided, bring an existing Excel schedule to scoping. Rebuilding it in Project during the course shows quickly whether the switch is worth it.
›Is this available in Kuching?
Yes. The course is delivered at your premises, including in Sarawak and Sabah. Where an external trainer flies in from another town, HRD Corp’s cost matrix allows the airfare to be claimed.
Get a scoped quote
Tell us the course, your team size, where you are and whether you pay the HRD Corp levy. Within one working day you get a suggested course shape, next steps on a quote, and how to claim it through HRD Corp.