Course Details

T0021
Technical

 

Project Timeline Planning (1) - Fundamentals

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Key topics covered:

 This course will provide a detailed introduction to the project scheduling. It will include an overview of:

• How a project’s scope is decomposed into a list of activities;
  
• Defining and sequencing activities;
  
• Estimating resources and durations;
  
• Techniques for soliciting information from groups;
  
• Network diagrams, and the critical path and critical chain methodologies;
  
• Schedule visualisation techniques, including: milestone charts, roadmaps, Gantt charts, line-of-balance and time/distance diagrams;
  
• How risk and uncertainty are integrated into project schedules as contingency;
  
• Schedule contingency approaches;
  
• Schedule optimisation with imposed parameters and constraints;
  
• Schedule elements of vendor bid analyses and frameworks;
  
• Contract delivery terms and penalties, and how to meet and monitor compliance with contract terms and penalties;
  
• Change control and contract variations, and how variations are triggered and managed;
  
• Communicating project schedule information in status reports; and,
  
• The importance process and reporting at the site level
• Further opportunities for developing as a project professional.

Learning Outcomes:

Participants will gain an understanding of the fundamental principles of how to develop and control a project schedule. 
The participant will gain the ability to:

• Read, understand and review project schedules
  
• Communicate project progress to internal and customer audiences with status reports