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Are your projects consistently late? Are you struggling to set realistic expectations of when you will be able to turn over deliverables to your stakeholders? If so, then this course is for you.

Starting with how to choose the right high-level scheduling approach (waterfall, incremental or agile) for your project and continuing on to detailed scheduling techniques such as the critical path method (CPM), this one-day workshop will give you the tools you need to build more realistic project schedules. Case study simulations will give participants hands-on practice building project schedules for real-world projects.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will gain practical skills to:

  • Describe different project scheduling approaches
  • Determine the appropriate scheduling approach for a project
  • Build a project schedule using the critical path method
  • Use a project schedule to monitor and control projects
  • Forecast new project end dates based upon actual progress metrics
  • Effectively communicate due dates to project stakeholders

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is a foundational course recommended for those interested in learning the basics of project management. We also recommend it for beginners who have no prior formal scheduling training but who wish to take courses on Microsoft Project or Primavera P6.

PREREQUISITE

There is no prerequisite for this course. It functions as a stand-alone course.

MATERIALS

You will receive a course binder containing copies of presentation slides, handouts, and activities.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Introduction

 

Project Scheduling

  • The importance of planning
  • The purpose of a good schedule
  • What a schedule cannot do
  • Scheduling Approaches: Predictive (Waterfall), Incremental, Iterative and Adaptive (Agile)
  • How to choose the right approach

 

Predictive Scheduling

  • Components of a Schedule
  • Estimating
  • Duration-Driven vs. Effort-Driven Schedules
  • Sequencing, Dependencies, Lags and Leads
  • Assumptions
  • Prededence Diagraming
  • The Critical Path Method
  • Gantt Charts
  • Scheduling within Constraints
  • Preparing a Schedule Basline

 

Rolling Wave Scheduling

  • What is rolling wave planning?
  • What is agile?
  • An overview of Scrum

 

Predictive Forecasting

  • Performance Reporting Basics
  • Earned Value Management

 

Agile Forecasting

  • Veolcity
  • Forecasting Using Velocity


Wrap Up

  • Key Points to Remember
  • Evaluations

 

course info

Course ID: 2004
Course Level: Beginner
Duration: 1 day

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PMI PDUs

PMI Talent TriangleThe following table provides the breakdown of the professional development units (PDUs) for this course aligned with the PMI Talent TriangleTM.

  WoW PS BA
PMP 7 0 0
PgMP 7 0 0
PfMP 0 0 0
PMI-ACP 7 0 0
PMI-SP 7 0 0
PMI-RMP 1 0 0
PMI-PBA 1.75 0 0

The three columns in the above table are Ways of Working, Power Skills & Business Acumen.

Other Credits

Other professional (re)certification credits are available, including:

  • Certified Business Analyst Professionals (CBAPs) earn 7CDUs (Category 2B)
  • Certified Software Quality Engineers (CSQEs) earn 1 RUs
  • CIPS Information Systems Professionals (ISPs) earn 7 Learning Credits
  • CIPS Information Technology Certified Professional (ITCPs) earn 7 Learning Credits