Course description
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.
Efficient project planning is very important for a project as many times late delivery causes a lot of problems to project managers worldwide. Many numbers of projects have gone past/over-run their delivery period due to lack of planning and scheduling of a project which leads to loss as the cost increase and thus causes inefficiency.
Thus, Essential Skills for Project Scheduling and Planning training course on efficient skills for project planning and scheduling will teach the methods and techniques for stepwise project planning to improve work efficiency and thus increase the profits
Upcoming start dates
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - 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 in projects
- Personnel who are responsible for supporting the project management process across an organisation and want a solid understanding of project planning
Outcome / Qualification etc.
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 of 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
Training Course Content
Day 1
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
Day 2
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
Day 3
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)
Day 4
Methodology of Advanced Planning Techniques and Project Control
- Training on 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 prioritising resources
- Methodology for “Time and Cost trade-off”
Day 5
Schedule and Reporting of Project Progress
- Tracking and monitoring of 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 elimination of waste
- Review of the course and “Question and Answer session”
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