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Project Management Foundations: Schedules

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Learn how to proactively manage project schedules. Get project management tips to resolve schedule conflicts, shorten timeframes, and reduce costs.

Syllabus

Introduction

Welcome
What you need to know
Showcase of project schedule
How to use the exercise files

1. Understanding a Project Schedule

Why do you need a schedule?
Schedules within the project life cycle
Develop a schedule management plan

2. Identifying and Organizing Activities

Determine the level of detail in your schedule
Identify project activities
Add milestones to your schedule
Organize project work

3. Sequencing Activities

Estimate duration and work
Methods for estimating activities
Put activities in order
Handle lag in dependencies
Problems 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
Working 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

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Bonnie Biafore

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Loren Hindsman

This course gave me a clear understanding of project scheduling, resource allocation, and critical path analysis. The explanations were concise, practical, and directly applicable to real world project management. Highly recommended for anyone looking to strengthen their planning and scheduling skills.