Project Management - How To Schedule Management Plan

Learn schedule development tools. techniques, methodologies, and best practices.

What you'll learn
Overview of PM’s responsibilities
Project management process overview
What is a Schedule Management Plan
Schedule Management Plan layout
Exercise
Requirements
Knowledge of Project Management
Description
This course is a result of 25 years of consulting project and portfolio management experience, including scheduling exercises on major projects. We will start this course with a brief overview of project manager’s responsibilities and the role of the schedule management plan in the overall project plan. We will then focus on the key steps of the schedule management process including Activity Definition, Activity Sequencing, Activity Resource Estimating, Activity Duration Estimating, Schedule Development and Schedule Control.We will then examine Schedule Development tools and techniques including software used, Activity Sequencing (Precedence diagramming method (PDM) and Arrow diagramming method (ADM)) and Activity Duration Estimation (Expert judgement, Analogous estimating (Top-Down), Engineering estimating (Bottom-Up) and Network Diagrams including PERT and Critical Path methods).We will then focus on project schedule controls methodologies including Variance Analysis (i.e. comparison of Scheduled Time vs. Actual Time) and Earned Value Management (e.g. SV, SPI, EAC, ETC and VAC).We will then discuss schedule variance tolerances and levels at which they will be tracked as well as several methods of Schedule Variance Response Process.Subsequently we will discuss Project Schedule with the aid of real-life examples and Schedule Change Control Process including Schedule Control, Managing Schedule Changes through the Change Request document. Also, we will discuss assessing the impact of the change on the overall project.Finally, you will be provided with an assignment to create your own Schedule Management Plan based on what you learned in the course (e.g. bathroom or kitchen renovation projects).

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Course Modules

Lecture 2 Project Manager’s Responsibilities

Lecture 3 First sections of Project Schedule Management Plan (ScMP)

Lecture 4 Schedule Controls

Lecture 5 Project Schedule

You are a project manager who runs medium to large-size projects,You are a business analyst who is responsible for interactions with stakeholders on medium or large-size projects,You are a technical resource who is planning on participating in a project