Schedule and Cost Control

Course ID

91600

Course Description

In this course, you will learn the skills you need to effectively establish and manage a realistic schedule and detailed budget. Through hands-on exercises, you'll learn to develop an integrated budget and schedule while monitoring project performance during execution. You will be introduced to analytical techniques, including creation of a work breakdown structure, network diagramming, dependency analysis, critical path determination, three-point estimating, and assessment of resource needs and availability.

You will learn the management tools that help to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget, as well as the importance of creating baselines for the project schedules and budgets. To communicate your project's progress to stakeholders, you'll learn to use earned value analysis and other reporting techniques. Hands-on exercises will demonstrate the mechanisms and importance of formal change control procedures.


Prerequisites

  • Project Management Fundamentals
  • IT Project Management

Audience

Associate project managers, project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, product managers, and program managers.

Course Content

    Foundations
  • Project Management Life Cycle
  • Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Principles of Integrated Project Planning
  • Project constraints
    • Scope
    • Time
    • Cost
    • Risk
  • Defining Project Success
    Planning
  • Scope Planning
  • Estimating Techniques
  • Time Analysis
  • Schedule Development
  • Cost Analysis
  • Control Account Plans
  • Integrated Risk Management
  • Balancing the Plan by Balancing the Constraints
    Executing, Monitoring, and Controlling
  • Executing the Project Work
  • Monitoring Progress
  • Earned Value Management
  • Controlling Performance
  • Communicating with Stakeholders
  • Managing Risk During Execution
  • Scope Verification and Customer Satisfaction
    Closing
  • Administrative Closure
  • Transitioning Deliverables to their New Owners
  • Updates to Organizational Process Assets
  • Capturing Lessons Learned
  • Preparing the Closing Report

For More Information

For training inquiries, call 850-308-1376

or email us at eramos@gbsi.com

Course Details

Duration - 4 days
Price - $2495.00 USD


(Discounts may apply. Call for more information.)

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