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Course Description
This course is 7 learning hours. It is recommended that students spend an additional 1-hour over the two day period on this course
This course will review roles and responsibilities, estimating, how to be a good steward of project resources, as well as how to adapt project scheduling and budgeting during uncertainty by using tools and approaches such as rolling wave planning and agile delivery.
Final grade of this course is a Pass/Fail.
Course Outline
- Session 1: Roles and responsibilities, hierarchy of schedules, network diagrams, critical path and float, schedule development and compression, rolling wave planning, agile delivery and velocity
- Session 2: Cost-benefit analysis, estimating, contingency reserves, work breakdown structure and the budget, baselines, earned value, stewardship of resources, holistic thinking
What You Will Learn
- The roles and responsibilities of the project manager and other subject matter experts such as schedulers, financial experts and others
- How to prepare a project budget and schedule
- The fundamental scheduling techniques such as calculating the critical path and float
- How to use cost-benefit analysis, earned value and velocity when making project decisions and to understand project health
Prerequisites
Recommended For
- Anyone working on projects in any industry who wants to increase their knowledge and skills in budgeting and scheduling
- Project managers, project coordinators, subject matter experts, technical personnel, team members, managers, and key support personnel
- Those preparing for the PMP® or CAPM® designation
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Certificate in Project Management : Required
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Procept has a long and rich history delivering professional training in Canada and around the world. Procept delivered the first Project Management Professional (PMP®) preparation class in Canada, created the first formal project management course delivered through a continuing education division at a Canadian university at the Professional Development Centre of University of Toronto's Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, and delivered the first course on agile project management offered through a Canadian university. Today, Procept maintains its relationships with higher education, offering classes through one US and five Canadian universities. Procept instructors teach graduate classes in the Master of Engineering programs at several universities as well as post-graduate professional development classes.