At Milestone Consulting Group, our mission is simple: we help project managers become better project managers. Our students leave each course with skills to help them succeed at their jobs, not just skills to pass an exam. One way we do this is by interspersing theory with real-world situations, allowing our clients to apply new-found knowledge immediately upon return to the workplace.

Our project management courses all follow the same philosophy: rather than learn for learning's sake, it is important to learn how to use the tools and techniques to assist with managing projects. We embrace the concept of continuous quality improvement. As part of our commitment to excellence, all classes are re-evaluated, improved, and refined on a regular basis. Feedback from our students, new information, new techniques, and technology advancements are incorporated to maintain our high quality content and delivery.

Milestone Consulting Group is a company that specializes in best-of-breed Microsoft Office Project-based solutions and services. Every day, we assist customers in defining and building project management solutions. Just ask our clients - our approach works. Our clients will tell you they reduce project lifecycle time and cost, and boost the accuracy of their scheduling and resource projections.

There's a consistent theme among businesses of all sizes - from Fortune 500 companies to the newest small businesses: How do we deal with the increasing complexity that threatens to drown us? Complexity exists in every aspect of business, with employees and managers having to mange more information, more people, more resources, and more vendors and partners outside of the company.

In response to this need, Microsoft has evolved its Microsoft Project software into Microsoft Office Project Professional and Microsoft Office Project Standard versions that can help manage projects for a single manager, a business unit, or an entire company. By helping managers to coordinate the thousands of tasks that can go into hundreds of projects, these products can help tame complexity and bring unprecedented benefits to businesses:

• more productive and profitable use of resources
• more accurate scheduling and projection of completion dates
• faster and more cost-effective implementation of projects

But Microsoft Office Project, with its millions of lines of software code, can also add to complexity. Learning how the software works is only the first major challenge that people must take. Another is learning how to work with the software-that's a very different and more subtle challenge, one that requires understanding the software's role in a company and in the project management process.

Project managers need training to use Microsoft Office Project software effectively. But not all training offerings are created equal. Some focus only on the most basic mechanics of the software and some are created by people who have never even used the software to manage projects.