Project Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control
Project management: getting started
- Developing project objectives and goals
- Creating a project charter
- Developing a project plan
- Capturing functional requirements and defining scope
- Developing and using a work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Exercise: practice what you learned
Developing the project schedule
- Estimating time, costs and resources
- Using network scheduling techniques: bar charts (Gantt), critical path methods (CPM), performance evaluation and review techniques (PERT), precedence diagrams
- Addressing the real issue in project scheduling — resource allocation
- Using MS Project as a tool
- Exercise: practice what you learned
Implement and evaluate
- Establishing and maintaining control using basic feedback systems
- Managing scope changes
- Measuring project progress: using variance or earned-value management
- Closing out projects and project evaluations
- Exercise: practice what you learned
Project management action plan
- How to apply project management principles and tools back at work
Schedule
Evening before course — 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Optional dinner for those arriving early
Days 1 and 2 — 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Session
Day 3 — 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Session