Project Scheduling and Planning Skills

The Project Scheduling and Planning Skills training course will cover the following topics and more:

Project Estimating Basics

• Basic project management definitions
• Triple constraints – Time, Cost, Scope
• Project selection methods
• Defining project scope
• Cost and schedule estimation, cost budgeting and control
• Project schedule management using the Critical Path Method

Developing Project Budget and Schedule Control

• Resource requirements
• Direct and indirect project costs
• Planning and scheduling limited resources
• Options for accelerating the schedule
• Crashing the schedule - How?

Managing the Risk

• Risk identification, analysis and management
• Contingency reserve
• PERT, probability and standard deviation formulae
• Network activity risk profiles
• Application: Estimating project duration
• Project risk strategies

Measuring Project Performance

• Critical chain analysis and use of buffers
• Comparison of unbalanced with balanced schedules
• Measuring planned progress on schedule
• Risk distribution in contracting
• Actual progress and work conditions
• Managing variable conditions

Managing and Recovering Project Estimates

• Schedule variances and cost variances
• Progress control charts -trend analysis
• Schedule and cost variance forecasting
• Schedule and cost recovery analysis
• Schedule and cost recovery plan
• Project recovery baselines and controls

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