I’m in training today at Microsoft. The class is called Project Management and is taught by a guy named Peter Rogers.

Here is the syllabus

Project Management
Description
This is a two-day class for Engineering and IT professions, designed to better prepare Microsoft employees to understand and apply critical project management concepts, processes, best practices and techniques through a combination of instruction, facilitation, discussion, and activity.

At the end of this class students will:

• Understand how project management components are used to organize and deliver projects
• Understand the Project Management Institute (PMI) standards for project lifecycle and methodology
• Use Microsoft (and industry) terminology to organize, communicate status, and deliver projects
• Start up a project using established project lifecycle templates
• Keep a project on-track through the project lifecycle; initiation, planning, execution, control, and close-out, using methods demonstrated in the class
• Understand and be able to appropriately apply the Work Breakdown Structure tools
• Close out a project and document lessons learned using an established post-mortem procedure
• Apply tools, tips, and techniques to promote cross group collaboration
• Know which tools and techniques to apply in the event of common project problems

Eligibility restrictions
Recommended for: IT/operations program manager, program manager, program manager 2 (career model)
Available to: all employees and contingent staff

I’ll edit this post with any juicy knowledge and my opinion of how the class is/was.