TRAINING

We offer high quality but relatively low cost training at your offices anywhere in the UK, using our own dedicated trainers.

As an alternative, we offer live training over the internet - we can connect our pc to yours using the web. This is a very effective low cost and you can run short courses at any time of the day, even out of hours or at home at night or the weekends. All you need is an internet connection (not dialup) and a phone with loud speaker. Should you wish to include several people, then you can project your pc onto a screen or you can gather several people around a pc and you would need a speaker phone. The technology only allows us to connect to one pc at your end.

Cost for live training via the web starts at £350 (minimum 2 hours) and thereafter £175 plus VAT per hour.

Training at your offices can be half or full day. For full day courses start from £600 plus travel & accommodation.

Also we provide pre-recorded @ £250 per course for unlimited use.

Please contact us for a quote.

For examples of course content

We are happy to tailor the course content to your needs. An experienced trainer will contact you in advance and plan the agenda in full consultation, taking into account your requirements and level of experience.

We will structure training around your particular plans if you supply them.

Sample Introductory Course:

• How to create and update a bar chart

• Zoom and freeze panes
• Timescale headings and range
• Paper size
• Legends
• Colouring bars
• Milestones
• Bar text
• Row insertion and deletion
• Shifting projects and blocks of bars
• Calendar and shading
• Simple progress

Sample Intermediate Course:

• All topics in the introductory course above

• Progress
• Baseline
• Critical path and linking
• Summary tasks
• Text fonts
• User columns
• Changing fonts
• Freeform text
• Importing graphics

Sample Advanced Course:

• All topics in the intermediate course above

• Cashflow
• S curves
• Cost reports
• Export to Excel and Word
• Copy and paste to Excel
• Resources (optional)

Note: We cannot cover all these topics on a one-day course as our trainer can only go as fast as the slowest person. However, it is our aim to cover as much as possible to ensure the delegates are reasonably proficient and understand how to apply their plans to the software.

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PRE - RECORDED COURSES -

• We have developed 3 recorded training courses based on the most popular training topics. The cost of each course is £250 (No VAT).  £600 (No VAT)  for all 3 courses and can be used by the company on an unlimited basis for all its staff. Individual courses can be purchased separately.

Recorded Training Courses  (all courses are delivered as a MP4 download) include a live course including screen display and audio.

There are 3 courses  ...

Course C1  - Introduction to creating barcharts & scheduling & progress reporting (2 hours)
Course C2  - House building - including multiple plots (1 hour)
Course C3  - Linking & Critical Path plus Baseline(1.5 hour)

Course C1  - Introduction to creating barcharts & scheduling & progress reporting (2 hours)

Page formatting
Creating bars (including drawing with mouse)
Editing
Colour bars & filtering on colour
Summary bars
Task library
Shift Project
Project % complete
Saving
PDF
Weekly & daily programmes

Course C2  - House building - including multiple plots (1 hour)

Options for creating charts with multiple bars for each plot

Course C3  - Linking & Critical Path plus Baseline (1.5 hour)

Linking - using Link List, mouse & Predecessor
Display CP & Float
How is CP calculated
Common mistakes
Link multiple bars per row
Multiple CP's
Baseline
Tracking Actual bars to Baseline bars