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In this course, you will :
- Developing a schedule management plan
- Identifying project activities
- Adding milestones
- Organizing work
- Estimating duration and work
- Handling lag in dependencies
- Defining resources
- Assigning resources to activities
- Working with part-time and remote workers
- Fine-tuning assignments
- Optimizing schedules
- Managing and changing schedules
Syllabus :
1. Understanding a Project Schedule
- Why do you need a schedule?
- Schedules within the project lifecycle
- Develop a schedule management plan
2. Identifying and Organizing Activities
- Determine the level of detail
- Identify project activities
- Add milestones
- Organize work
3. Sequencing Activities
- Estimate duration and work
- Methods for estimating activities
- Put activities in order
- Handle lag in dependencies
- Problem with start-to-start dependencies
- Best practices for sequencing activities
4. Assigning Resources to Tasks
- Plan resources at a high level
- Procure resources
- Define resources in your schedule
- Balance resource assignment variables
- Keep an assignment variable fixed
- Assign resources to activities
- Replace generic resources with people
- Working with part-time workers and teams
- Work with remote teams
5. Fine-Tuning Assignments
- What is the critical path?
- Determine the critical path
- Put the critical path to work
- Too many or too few critical tasks
- Lengthen, delay, or split assignments
- Adjust the level of work over time
- Replace overallocated resources
6. Optimizing Schedules
- Include schedule contingency time
- Baseline the schedule
7. Managing Schedules
- Proactively manage a schedule
- Update progress in the schedule
- Find schedule problems
- Fast-track to shorten a schedule
- Pay more to shorten a schedule
- Change the schedule to reduce cost
- Reduce scope
- Improve schedules
