Project Management

Project Management: Schedule and Costs

This course is designed to build on the Scope Management course. Once the scope is well-defined, schedule and costs need to be developed. As a clear scope and a solid schedule become less burdensome, an understanding of the actual cost of doing the job allows the Project Manager to focus on the exception issues and more proactive processes for developing and maintaining the project. The Project Management Institute thinks scheduling is so critical that they have just recently announced a special certification in Scheduling.

Overview: 2 day with 14 PDUs

How attendees will benefit:

• Develop effective measures for scheduling and controlling projects
• Focus on managing the constraints you face in any project: limits on time, human resources, materials, budget and specifications.
• Discover proven ways to work within your identified constraints, without letting redefined limits curtail creativity or innovation.

This program will show you how to:

• Clearly define scope and set project objectives
• Create a realistic, practical plan to achieve your goals
• Handle multiple priorities effectively and efficiently
• Build and lead winning project teams
• Develop a step-by-step methodology to plan and manage all projects
• Write and utilize a Project Management Guidelines tool for conducting the business of project management successfully
• Learn the proven techniques you need to plan and schedule any size project – from start to finish.

Some of the topics to be covered:

• Essential Background
• Resource Allocation and Estimating
• Scheduling
• The Baseline
• Managing Change Within the Project
• Evaluation and Forecasting
• The Exit Strategy

Who should attend?

Experienced Project Managers from both the private and public sectors that have been assigned project responsibility. Managers and executives with responsibility for diverse projects such as construction, computer and high technology, medical and pharmaceutical, mergers and acquisitions, strategic and long-range organizational planning, and reengineering projects

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