June 29 - 30, 2012
Project Estimating and Scheduling
Nancy Tighe, International Institute for Learning
Course Overview
Foundation Concepts
- Project management basic concepts
- Project Estimating and Scheduling (PES) Key Driver: the competing project demands
- PES process overview
- PES success factors
Project Definition and the Work Breakdown Structure
- Project definition overview
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) concepts
- Decomposition: key technique for developing the WBS
Resource Planning
- Resource planning overview
- Identifying resource requirements
- Identifying and filling resource gaps
- Applying resource planning tools
Duration Estimating
- Estimating overview
- Estimating perspectives
- Estimating techniques
- Duration estimating best practices
Project Scheduling
- Project scheduling overview
- Dependencies & the project network diagram
- Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Optimizing the project schedule
Budget, Risk and Contingency Planning
- Overview of budget, risk and contingency planning
- Determining budget
- Planning risk management
- Planning contingency reserves
Project Baseline and Control
- Baseline concepts
- Negotiating and the project baseline
- Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Project variances and corrective actions
- Facilitating control through reporting
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