PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)

Schedule Model Management

• Discussing the importance of schedule model management
• Developing schedule data management plan
• Understanding the components of schedule management plan
• Discussing scheduling techniques:
  
  

•          Rolling wave planning
•          Agile technique
•          Program evaluation and review technique
•          Monte Carlo simulation
  
  

• Discussing various tools for scheduling

Schedule Model Creation

• Introduction to schedule model baseline development process and its steps
• Defining project’s milestones and activities
• Sequencing activities and milestones and determining relationships between them
• Estimating resources and duration for each activity
• Understanding the steps required for analyzing schedule outputs
• Calculating float values: Total float and Free float
• Approving the schedule

Schedule Model Maintenance, Analysis & Reporting

• Discussing how to track the project process for successful execution
• Collecting activity status and resource information and updated to update and review the progress
• Exploring different scheduling methods for analyzing the schedule:
  
  

•        Critical path method
•        Precedence diagram method
•        Critical chain method
  
  

• Discussing schedule risk analysis and how to incorporate risk mitigation activities into the schedule
• Discussing the importance of communicating and reporting schedule model

Schedule Components & Conformance Index

• Exploring the components lists of scheduling and discussing how to use them
• Classifying list of components and understand each of its components
• Understanding the meaning of conformance index
• Discussing the process of conformance assessment
• Lessons Learned and Best Practices
• Final Q&A and Course Wrap-Up