This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP). It covers the contract requirements, identification of stakeholders and constructability methods; the considerations and constraints covering resources, value engineering, stakeholder considerations and project variables; the planning output and deliverables; the scope of work, project goals and project plan; and the phase definition and establishing work breakdown structure (WBS) and organizational breakdown structure (OBS).
Further, the course will also discuss the cost breakdown structure (CBS) including sequencing and phase relationships; the stakeholders, cost estimate development, baseline plan, periodic forecasts, risk and recovery plan; the schedule scope and schedule specification; reviewing of feedback from stakeholders and cost estimate model; and creating schedule and identifying the various types of schedule.
During this interactive course, participants will learn the activities, durations, relationships, constraints and calendars; the cost/resource loading and milestones; the schedule quality analysis, compliance review and schedule basis documentation; maintaining baseline schedule, tracking schedule progress and managing cost, resource and schedule change; the acceleration and schedule maintenance feedback; the schedule output and deliverables covering control level schedules, variances and trends, schedule analysis and schedule forecasts; and the constructability review, progress reports and reviews, recovery schedules and management summary.