Project Schedule Management

Course Number:  101-RS
Recommended Duration:  2 Days

Intended Audience: Project leaders

Course Overview
Effective project schedule management is of critical importance to business and industry today. This course covers the best practices for project schedule management based upon the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) as well as the earned value techniques. Float utilization and schedule acceleration techniques will be introduced.

Objectives
As a result of taking this course, you will learn the fundamentals of project schedule management. You will also learn how to use schedule tools such as: network diagrams, Gantt, Pert, Critical Path, and Milestone charts.

Prerequisites:  Basic Project Management

Topics

• Scheduling uncertain projects

• Developing schedule estimates

• Project schedule formatting techniques

• Critical path calculations and project float

• Schedule analysis techniques

• Schedule acceleration techniques

• Earned value analysis

• Tracking project schedules