What you'll learn:
- How to schedule projects
- How to work with remote teams
- How to work with product teams
Are your projects constantly missing deadlines? Struggling to create realistic timelines or manage resource conflicts? Effective Project Scheduling is the backbone of successful project delivery.
Failing to plan and manage your schedule properly leads to delays, cost overruns, frustrated stakeholders, and potential project failure. This course, part of the Project Management Fundamentals series, provides the essential step-by-step process and practical techniques to build realistic schedules and keep your projects on track.
Learn scheduling fundamentals from Luke Angel, an instructor whose extensive credentials (PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CSM, Six Sigma Black Belt, MBA) and over 25+ years of leadership experience provide a deep understanding of planning and execution across complex projects, programs, and portfolios.
(What You'll Learn - Use Udemy's Curriculum Section for Detailed Topics):
Understand Scheduling Fundamentals: Grasp core concepts, components, and the overall scheduling process within project management.
Define Project Activities: Learn to break down work effectively (using WBS concepts) and define schedule tasks accurately.
Sequence Activities Logically: Determine task dependencies (Finish-to-Start, Start-to-Start, etc.) and correctly apply leads and lags.
Estimate Activity Durations & Resources: Utilize practical techniques for creating realistic time estimates and identifying resource needs.
Develop the Project Schedule: Learn to build the schedule timeline using techniques like the Critical Path Method (CPM) and visualize it (e.g., Gantt Charts).
Plan & Assign Resources Effectively: Allocate people and resources, considering availability (including part-time/remote teams), and perform basic resource leveling.
Optimize & Finalize the Schedule: Identify the critical path, understand float/slack, incorporate buffers, and establish the schedule baseline.
Monitor & Control the Schedule: Learn how to track progress against the baseline, identify variances, manage changes, and proactively address schedule problems.
Who This Course Is For:
Project Managers (New, Aspiring, and Experienced seeking refreshers).
Project Coordinators, Project Schedulers, and Planners.
Team Leads and Functional Managers involved in project planning.
Business Analysts contributing to project scope and timelines.
Anyone responsible for creating, managing, or understanding project schedules.
Requirements:
A basic understanding of general project management concepts is helpful. No specific scheduling software is required for this course.
Instructor:
Luke Angel (PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CSM, Six Sigma Black Belt, MBA) brings over 25 years of extensive experience and top-tier certifications across project (PMP), program (PgMP), portfolio (PfMP), Agile (CSM), process improvement (Six Sigma), and business strategy (MBA). Learn scheduling fundamentals grounded in deep, practical, multi-disciplinary expertise.
Stop letting poor scheduling derail your projects. Learn to plan, execute, and control timelines effectively. Enroll Today!
You learn all that plus these amazing topic:
What You Need to Know Before Starting
Showcase of The Project Schedule
Using the Exercise Files
An Overview of Project Scheduling
Components of A Project Schedule
Identifying the Work That Needs to Be Done
Organizing Work with Summary Tasks
Adding Milestones
Estimating Time and Cost
Putting Tasks into The Right Order
Delaying or Overlapping Tasks with Lag and Lead Time
Setting Specific Dates
Balancing Resource Assignment Variables
Planning Resources at A High Level
Procuring Resources
Assigning Resources That Are Available
Working with Part Time Workers and Teams
Working with Remote Teams
Fine Tuning the Schedule for Resources
Determining the Critical Path
Putting the Critical Path to Work
Lengthening Delaying and Splitting Assignments
Adjusting the Level of Work Over Time
Replacing Overallocated Resources
Adding Buffers to The Schedule
Adding A Baseline to The Schedule
Proactively Managing a Schedule
Finding Schedule Problems
Reducing Scope
