Projects Management
Essential Skills for Project Scheduling and Planning
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Essential Skills for Project Scheduling and Planning Course
Introduction:
Project Planning and Scheduling is one of the most important activities for a Project Manager when starting and managing any type of project. Many mistakes are made during the first few weeks shaping the project scope, leading up to a plan and a schedule.
Course Objectives:
By attending this Essential Skills for Project Scheduling and Planning course you will learn:
- Methods for control and planning of resources
- Understand the concept of time-cost trade-offs
- Understanding the sources of risk and how to minimize the influence
- Understand how to endure the momentum of a project
- Creating project planning and management documentation and reporting
- Introduction to effective performance monitoring and control
Who Should Attend?
Essential Skills for Project Scheduling and Planning training course is developed for:
- Project managers responsible for delivering cross-functional projects
- Personnel or managers assigned to projects, who want to learn a structured method for planning
- Project Team Members supporting project managers
- Cost estimators and subject matter experts working on projects
- Personnel who are responsible for supporting the project management process across an organization and want a solid understanding of project planning
Course Outlines:
Fundamentals of Project Planning
- Introduction to project management
- Introduction to project planning
- How to execute a project plan?
- Understanding the type of constraints to a project: “Time”, “Cost” and “Scope”
- Delivery of a project
Fundamental of Project Scheduling
- Understanding of the economic impacts and interest rates impact on a project due to delay
- Understanding the concept of “Work Break-down Structures”
- Training on the preparation of “Gantt Charts”- for preparing the project schedule
- Understanding the concept of “Float”
- Understanding the concept of Precedence diagram method(PDM)
- Methodology of Building Schedule
Scheduling of Network and Critical Way
- Introduction to activity development
- Training on network calculations
- Understanding the concept of “Forward and Backward pass”
- Introduction to “Lead and Lag” scheduling
- Understanding the importance of (Project Evaluation and Review technique) (PERT)
Methodology of Advanced Planning Techniques and Project Control
- Training on the preparation of LSM (Line of balance schedule)
- Understanding the system of project control
- Understanding the analysis of earned value
- Understanding the concept of earned value reporting
- Methodology of the “Resource Allocation Algorithm” – for prioritizing resources
- Methodology for “Time and Cost trade-off”
Schedule and Reporting of Project Progress
- Tracking and monitoring the progress of a project
- Methods for acceleration of a project schedule
- “How does the project schedule fail or Crash?” – understanding and prevention methods
- Understanding the concept of “Lean Project Management” – a systematic method for the elimination of waste
- Review of the course and “Question and Answer session”
