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Project Scheduling and Budgeting

Transforming Project Constraints into Project Success
 
Course: 248   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Construct realistic schedules and budgets to achieve cost-effective and timely project delivery
  • Facilitate strong team estimates which factor in uncertainty
  • Calculate Critical Path from well-defined network diagrams
  • Allocate accurate and realistic costs and chart expected cash flow
  • Assign resources effectively and respond to end-date changes
  • Perform Earned Value Analysis (EVA) to keep the project on track

Course Benefits

Project managers must balance scant resources, tight budgets and strict deadlines all in the face of ever-increasing customer expectations. This course provides the core scheduling and budgeting skills required to deliver critical projects on time and within budget. By performing tasks manually and with spreadsheets, rather than relying on project management software, you learn vital techniques for future project success.

Who Should Attend

Project managers, those following the PMBOK® Guide, and others who wish to enhance their scheduling and budgeting skills. Project management knowledge at the level of Course 296, "Project Management: Skills for Success," or Course 340, "Project Management for Software Development," is strongly recommended.

Course Workshop

Through a challenging multimedia-simulated case study, you practice essential project estimating and scheduling techniques to build and manage a workable project plan. Activities include:
  • Building an activity-on-node network diagram
  • Determining your task durations using three-point estimates
  • Reviewing and improving the estimating process and presenting the results
  • Calculating Critical Path
  • Finding and fixing errors in the Gantt chart
  • Determining the project costs, total budget and resource requirements
  • Employing EVA to assess project status, reforecast schedule and costs, and produce project status reports
  • Adapting to sudden change
  • Reviewing project team estimates, costs and status for accuracy and consistency

Related Courses

 
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Upcoming Dates

Sep 3 - 5, 2008
 Toronto
Sep 24 - 26, 2008
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Oct 15 - 17, 2008
 New York
Nov 19 - 21, 2008
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Jan 28 - 30, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Feb 18 - 20, 2009
 Toronto
Mar 25 - 27, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Apr 8 - 10, 2009
 New York

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Project Scheduling and Budgeting

Transforming Project Constraints into Project Success
 
Course: 248   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course 248 Content
 

Introduction

  • Estimating and completing a project
  • Comparing estimates to actuals
  • Defining project success criteria

Best Practices for Project Planning

Building the foundation

  • Developing a WBS
  • Adopting a product-oriented focus
  • Identifying the appropriate level of detail

Diagramming network relationships

  • Applying network diagrams: AOA, AON
  • Reviewing CPM and PERT
  • Defining precedence relationships
  • Establishing dependencies
  • Determining lead and lag times
  • Constructing PDM diagrams

Developing Realistic Estimates

Choosing the right estimating model

  • Engaging subject-matter experts: the Delphi Technique
  • Preparing analogous estimates
  • Applying parametric techniques to estimates
  • Contrasting bottom-up and top-down methods
  • Determining a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimate

Dealing with uncertainty

  • Formulating three-point estimates
  • Factoring in contingency

Integrating the Schedule and Critical Path

Computing the Critical Path

  • Adding task durations to determine path lengths
  • Calculating activity Start and End dates
  • Determining the critical path
  • Identifying near-critical paths

Creating Gantt charts

  • Building Gantt charts following industry standards
  • Representing the relative durations of activities graphically

Fine-tuning your plan

  • Calculating and using float
  • Planning delivery by applying earliest start times

Building a Budget

Categorizing project costs

  • Identifying direct and indirect cost elements
  • Itemizing capital expenses
  • Costing based on WBS tasks
  • Aggregating project costs

Modeling costs

  • Calculating total project costs
  • Adding costs to the schedule
  • Scheduling cash accruals
  • Building the project cash flow
  • Analyzing contingency reserves

Realistic Resourcing

Schedules that make sense

  • Factoring in productivity
  • Allocating resources effectively: resource aggregation, leveling and smoothing
  • Addressing resource constraints: rescheduling and resourcing strategies

Responding to delivery-date changes

  • Fast-tracking the project plan
  • Crashing the Critical Path

Measuring and Improving Performance

Monitoring your plan

  • Recording actual durations and costs
  • Summarizing project status
  • Determining project progress

Performing EVA

  • Calculating schedule and budget efficiency
  • Quantifying cost and schedule variance
  • Projecting impact on project outcomes
  • Mapping EVA to cost accounting
  • Reconciling project issues

Communicating with Stakeholders

  • Working with inbound information
  • Building outbound reports
  • Identifying the right level of detail
  • Interfacing project information with organizational reporting needs
  • Aligning project monitoring to project planning
 
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Project Scheduling and Budgeting Tuition

Transforming Project Constraints into Project Success
 
Course: 248   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,250 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,580 10-Day Pass
$ 1,665 Training Passport
$ 1,830 Flex-Pass
$ 2,095 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,025 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,000 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

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  • As little as $1,830 per course
  • Save as much as 35%
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  • Fully transferable
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