COURSE OBJECTIVE:
What You'll Learn • Develop a work breakdown structure • Create a network diagram • Identify the critical path • Estimating techniques • Finalize your project schedule • Types of cost and expenditures • Develop a budget • Report progress through earned value analysis Hands-On Exercises • Develop the Work Breakdown Structure • Create the Network Diagram • Determine the Critical Path • Develop a Resource Assignment Matrix • Create a Resource Histogram • Develop the Gantt Chart • Estimate the Budget • Prepare a Status Report for Schedule and Budget
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Associate project managers, project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, product managers, and program managers.
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
Introduction to Project Management
IT Project Management
Applied Project Management
COURSE CONTENT:
1. Successful Project Schedules • Schedule Fundamentals • Activity Definition • Work breakdown structure • Decomposition • Work packages • Activities • Activity Sequencing • Preparing precedence diagrams • Creating network diagrams • Duration Estimating • Expert judgment • Bottom up and top down estimates • Tools for Creating Realistic Effort Estimates and Schedules • Critical path method • GERT • PERT • Compressing the Schedule • Crashing and fast tracking • Controlling Schedule Change • Planning schedule management • Change control • Measuring Success Against the Schedule • Earned value analysis • Status reporting • Closing out the Schedule 2. Successful Project Budgets • Budget Fundamentals • Types of Cost • Resource • Direct expenses • Indirect expenses • Cost Change • Planning cost control • Change control • Measuring Success Against the Budget • Earned value analysis • Estimate at completion • Estimate to completion • Status reporting • Closing out the Budget
FOLLOW ON COURSES:
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