This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of PMI scheduling professional (PMI-SP). It covers the project schedule configuration management policies and procedures; the schedule approach, based on the unique characteristics of the project; the scheduling policies and procedures; the scheduling-related components for project management plans; the information about project scheduling objectives and goals; the role of the schedule and scheduling procedures; and the work breakdown structure (WBS), organizational breakdown structure (OBS), control accounts (CA) and work packages.
Further, the course will also discuss the activities and milestones in identifying and documenting the work to be performed; the activity durations and activities incorporating defined dependencies milestones and constraints; the critical and near-critical path(s), the project resource breakdown structure (RBS) and schedule model; the alignment of schedule and analyzation of major milestones; the schedule risk analysis; the consensus of the project customer, sponsor, project manager and project team members; and the performance measurement baseline (PMB).
During this interactive course, participants will learn the collection of activity status, resource information and updates; the schedule analysis and audit; the alternative project execution options, incorporating of approved risk mitigation activities into the schedule, updating the schedule model and documenting schedule baseline changes; the final acceptance of the contractual schedule components; the evaluation of final schedule performance and update of the organizational process assets; the final schedule reports, archive of schedule files, development and fostering of relationships with project stakeholders; the generation and maintenance of visibility of project schedule; the verbal and written schedule status updates and impact on schedule of corrective actions; and the schedule issues.
The course will take you step-to-step through the latest planning and control techniques, particularly those used by the Project Management Software and the Project Management Body of Knowledge (both APM’s book and PMI’s PMBOK). The course is in line with the PMI knowledge requirements and with the relevant experience will enable the participant to apply to the PMI for acceptance to their examination for the PMI-PMP registration. (Details of the full PMI requirements are available on the PMI web-page, www.pmi.org)