Course Overview
Two common major areas of project overrun are time and money. In this course, you gain solid schedule and budget-management skills. You learn how to define the work and calculate a realistic critical path.
Course Objective
- Create a realistic and robust project plan
- Estimate tasks and aggregate to the project level
- Calculate critical path to determine project duration
- Determine total project costs
- Quantify risk to produce a defensible baseline
- Leverage best practices to significantly improve project outcomes
Who Should Attend??
The course is recommended for project managers, senior executives, leaders, project team members, business analysts and managers.
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Identifying the Work
- Establishing the Project Sequence
- Developing Robust Schedule Estimates
- Estimating Project Costs
- Validating the Plan
- Recognizing Risk
- Baselining Your Plan
Training Methodology
- Presentation & Slides
- Audio Visual Aids
- Interactive Discussion
- Participatory Exercise
- Action Learning
- Class Activities
- Case Studies
- Workshops
- Simulation