COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators.

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Project Time Management. It covers the project schedule management framework (PMBOK); defining and sequencing activities; the various tools for time management covering Gantt charts, network diagrams, bar charts and milestone charts; the project time estimation, estimating activity durations and critical path method (CPM); scheduling network analysis and the resource optimization techniques; the project schedule, tools and software for scheduling, schedule baseline and change control; the schedule performance indicators, schedule compression techniques and managing delays and recovery plans; the stakeholder communication and time reporting; and the agile and hybrid approaches to time management.

During this interactive course, participants will learn the earned schedule (ES) technique, time claims and forensic schedule analysis and integrated cost and time control; scheduling audit checklists and health checks and diagnostics; reporting audit findings, recommendations and follow-ups; creating a WBS and activity list and sequencing and assigning durations; the resources and constraints and generating and analyzing critical path; troubleshooting common scheduling issues and over-allocation of resources; the unrealistic timelines, dependency errors and stakeholder pushbacks; the best practices in time management and industry benchmarks; and the checklists and templates, time management KPIs and lessons from failed projects.