ADVANCED SCHEDULING
This workshop provides key insights into disciplines and best practices of scheduling while exploring industry proven techniques for managing schedules throughout the complete lifecycle of any project.
The curriculum is designed for project managers and their staff as well as any other project personnel who are responsible for developing, delivering, and maintaining project schedules. Included in this course are integrated case studies and hands on exercises of key scheduling concepts. By attending this workshop each student will have direct exposure to best practices for implementing and managing the schedule for the projects he/she are responsible to guide. In addition to best practices and real world case studies, this workshop identifies obstacles to effective scheduling, methods for schedule development, practical use of constraints, methodologies for developing and implementing IMP/IMS, schedule risk management, enterprise schedule techniques, and a review of contemporary scheduling tools.
Students need to come prepared for a fast-paced interactive experience.
COURSE OUTLINE
Scheduling Overview
• Advanced Scheduling
• Basics of Scheduling
• Best Practice Scheduling
Obstacles
•Well defined objectives
• Knowledgeable personnel
• Task identification
• Task sequencing
• Task interrelationships
• Task durations
• Allocation of resources
• Defined calendars
• Implementation of Scheduling Tools
• Management support
Schedule Development
• Team Involvement
• Brainstorming for Activity/Task Identification
• "Cards on the Wall"
Case Study - Project Scope Development
• Understanding Project Scope
• Utilize Best Practices for Schedule IMS Development
• Integrating the WBS
Constraints
• Relationship to logic-based networks/schedules
• Effects on network planning
• Best practices for effective scheduling
Case Study - Developing Project Logic
• Developing the CPM network
• Organizing the schedule
• Integrating subprojects
