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Project Time Management Course Introduction
Welcome to the Project Time Management course. This comprehensive training program is meticulously structured to align with the best practices outlined in the PMBOK® Guide, 5th Edition, focusing on the intricacies of managing time in project environments. Our course is tailored to benefit both project team members and project managers, providing them with essential insights and practical skills for effective time management within projects.
Throughout this course, we delve into the complexities of managing project schedules, a pivotal and often challenging aspect of project management.
We will explore various facets including handling uncertainties, mitigating risks associated with project schedules, and conducting thorough stakeholder analyses.
The curriculum is designed to not only impart theoretical knowledge but also to offer practical, hands-on exercises. These activities are aimed at solidifying your understanding and enabling you to apply best practices in real-world project scenarios, thereby enhancing your proficiency in schedule management and control.
Course Objectives
By the end of this workshop, you will:
- Understand why project schedules are challenging to manage.
- Enhance your ability to deliver projects on time.
- Receive training consistent with PMBOK® Guide, Fifth Edition.
- Develop a realistic and defensible project schedule.
- Integrate milestones and deadlines into your project plan.
- Master variance management and schedule change control.
- Learn key time management concepts and vocabulary.
- Apply techniques through hands-on exercises and a workshop case study.
Audience
This course is suitable for:
- Project team members seeking to improve their time estimating and management skills.
- Project managers looking to enhance their understanding of project time management best practices.
- Students preparing for the PMP examination.
Project Time Management Course Outline
Introduction
- The context for Project Time Management.
- Triple Constraint.
- Project Management Plan.
- WBS.
- Challenges to Project Time Management.
Project Time Management Processes
- Introduction to the 7 Project Time Management Processes.
Plan Schedule Management
- Purpose of Schedule Management Plan.
- Elements of the Schedule Management Plan.
- Establishing Schedule Control Parameters.
Define Activities
- Context.
- Purpose of Defining Activities.
- Relationship to the WBS.
- Activity Attributes.
Sequence Activities
- Context.
- Purpose of Sequencing Activities Process.
- Analyzing Dependencies.
- Classes of Dependencies.
- Dependency Relationships.
- Lag and Lead.
- Project Schedule Network Diagram.
Estimate Activity Resources
- Context.
- Purpose of Estimate Activity Resources.
- Identifying Resources for Each Activity.
Estimate Activity Durations
- Context.
- Duration Calculation.
- Analogous Estimating.
- Parametric Estimating.
- Three-Point Estimating (PERT).
- Critical Path Method.
- Critical Chain Method.
Develop Schedule
- Context.
- Purpose of Develop Schedule.
- Critical Path Method.
- Critical Chain Method.
- Resource Leveling.
- What-If Scenarios – Applying Lead and Lag.
- Schedule Compression.
Control Schedule
- Context.
- Purpose.
- Performance Reviews.
- Variance Analysis.
- Resource Leveling.
- What-If Scenario Analysis.
- Adjusting Leads and Lags.
- Schedule Compression.
Outline
Lesson 1: Introduction
- Context for Project Time Management
- Triple Constraint
- Project Management Plan
- WBS
- Challenges to Project Time Management
Lesson 2: Project Time Management Processes based on the PMBOK® Guide, 5th Edition
- Introduction to the 7 Project Time Management Processes
Lesson 3: Plan Schedule Management
- Purpose of Schedule Management Plan
- Elements of the Schedule Management Plan
- Establishes Schedule Control Parameters
Lesson 4: Define Activities
- Context
- Purpose of defining activities
- Relationship to the WBS
- Activity attributes
Lesson 5: Sequence Activities
- Context
- Purpose of the Sequencing Activities Process
- Analyzing dependencies
- Classes of dependencies
- Dependency relationships
- Lag and lead
- Project Schedule Network Diagram
Lesson 6: Estimate Activity Resources
- Context
- Purpose of Estimate Activity Resources
- Identifying resources for each activity
Lesson 7: Estimate Activity Durations
- Context
- Duration calculation
- Analogous estimating
- Parametric estimating
- Three-point estimating (PERT)
- Critical path method
- Critical chain method
Lesson 8: Develop Schedule
- Context
- Purpose of Develop Schedule
- Critical Path method
- Critical Chain method
- Resource leveling
- What-if scenarios – applying lead and lag
- Schedule compression
Lesson 9: Control Schedule
- Context
- Purpose
- Performance reviews
- Variance analysis
- Resource leveling
- What-if scenario analysis
- Adjusting leads and lags
- Schedule compression
Audience
This course is intended for both project team members and project managers wishing to gain a fluent working knowledge of commonly accepted best practices for project scheduling and schedule control. Team members and managers looking to improve their project time estimating and management should take this course. Students on a track to take the PMP examination should take this course.
This course provides participants with a process that introduces them to project time management as presented in the PMBOK® Guide, 5th Edition.
$1195.00
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2 Days Course |