Professional Certificate in Project Scheduling and Planning

Professional Certificate in Project Scheduling and Planning

 

Course Details:

Confidently estimate project timescales and costs with appropriate resource management plans

 

Identify, assess and manage schedule, cost, scope, and resource risks

 

Understand project performance and control

 

Measure, forecast and control project performance by employing earned value techniques

 

Develop a project recovery plan for budget and schedule overruns

 

 

CONTENT

 

Project Estimating Basics

 

Basic project management definitions

Triple constraints – Time, Cost, Scope

Project selection methods

Defining project scope

Cost and schedule estimation, cost budgeting and control

Project schedule management using the Critical Path Method

 

 

Developing Project Budget and Schedule Control

 

Resource requirements

Direct and indirect project costs

Planning and scheduling limited resources

Options for accelerating the schedule

Crashing the schedule – How?

 

Managing the Risk

 

Risk identification, analysis and management

Contingency reserve

PERT, probability and standard deviation formulae

Network activity risk profiles

Application: Estimating project duration

Project risk strategies

 

 

Measuring Project Performance

 

Critical chain analysis and use of buffers

Comparison of unbalanced with balanced schedules

Measuring planned progress on schedule

Risk distribution in contracting

Actual progress and work conditions

Managing variable conditions

 

Managing and Recovering Project Estimates

 

Schedule variances and cost variances

Progress control charts -trend analysis

Schedule and cost variance forecasting

Schedule and cost recovery analysis

Schedule and cost recovery plan

Project recovery baselines and controls

 

Duration:

4 Days Physical

3 Weeks Online

 

Tuition Fee:

N120,000 Online

N150,000