Project Planning and Scheduling

OVERVIEW This course will give you a solid foundation across the concepts and techniques to plan, schedule, monitor and control time and resources on a project. The training course delivery is structured around the five process groups of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide; initiation, planning, executing, monitoring and control, and closure. Participants will learn that project time management is a process of strategic planning, monitoring and control to accomplish the timely completion of a project. Completing projects on time is often one of the key success criteria for a project. BENEFIT

• Learn how to be successful at planning, scheduling and managing project time and resources.
• Learn to successfully plan and manage project time based on realistic project resource constraints.
• Develop reliable schedule estimates.
• Evaluate and risk-adjust activity duration estimates prepared by others.
• Set dependencies.
• Undertake committed project time monitoring, forecasting and control.

OUTLINE MATERI 1. Introduction 2. Scheduling Strategy

• Enterprise Environmental Factors
• Organizational Process Assets
• Project Management Framework
• Project Management Knowledge Areas
• Project Life Cycle and Organization
• Project Phases
• Stakeholders

3. Schedule Planning and Development

• Scope Planning Key Points
• Collect Requirements
• Define Scope
• Project Scope Management
• Create WBS
• Scheduling Components
• Define Activities

4. Schedule Planning and Development - Continue

• Estimate Activity Duration
• Sequence Activities
• Network Diagram
• Critical Path Method
• Critical Chain Method
• Rolling Wave Planning
• Agile Technique
• Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
• Monte Carlo Simulation
• Resource Estimating
• Schedule Model Adjustments for resource availability

5. Schedule Monitoring and Controlling

• Schedule Model Management
• Schedule Data Management Plan
• Schedule Approval
• Baseline the Schedule Model

6. Schedule Monitoring & Controlling - Cont

• Setting the baseline, contingencies, monitoring and statusing the schedule
• Forecasting critical activities and end dates
• Updating the schedule
• Understanding fast tracking and crashing of schedules. Using computer-based scheduling tools

7. Schedule Closeout 8. Capability Assessment TRAINING  METHOD Presentation Discussion Case Study Evaluation FACILITY Training Kit Handout Certificate Lunch + 2x Coffee Break Souvenir