June 29 - 30, 2012

Project Estimating and Scheduling

Nancy Tighe, International Institute for Learning

Course Overview

Foundation Concepts

• Project management basic concepts
• Project Estimating and Scheduling (PES) Key Driver: the competing project demands
• PES process overview
• PES success factors

Project Definition and the Work Breakdown Structure

• Project definition overview
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) concepts
• Decomposition: key technique for developing the WBS

Resource Planning

• Resource planning overview
• Identifying resource requirements
• Identifying and filling resource gaps
• Applying resource planning tools

Duration Estimating

• Estimating overview
• Estimating perspectives
• Estimating techniques
• Duration estimating best practices

Project Scheduling

• Project scheduling overview
• Dependencies & the project network diagram
• Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Optimizing the project schedule

Budget, Risk and Contingency Planning

• Overview of budget, risk and contingency planning
• Determining budget
• Planning risk management
• Planning contingency reserves

Project Baseline and Control

• Baseline concepts
• Negotiating and the project baseline
• Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Project variances and corrective actions
• Facilitating control through reporting