EThis Seminar is focused on scheduling, estimating and cost control. The attendee will have the opportunity to practice WBS, scheduling, estimating and budget creation; furthermore we will use “Earned Value” examples.
Content and objectives of the seminar:
Audience
The audience for this seminar is team leaders, and project managers. This is a practice oriented seminar, where theory and practice are combined.
Duration
- Seminar Objectives
- Global concepts
- Basic principles
- Resource Management and scheduling
- Resources planning
- How the organization may affect the estimation
- Definitions
- Basic Estimations
- Estimation rules
- Different approaches
- Estimation techniques
- Costs
- Assessment
- Definitions
- Critical path
- Scheduling restrictions
- Scheduling Optimization
- Schedules
- The Critical Chain
- The student syndrome
- The Parkinson Law
- Multitasking
- Schedule Negotiation
- Resources assignment
- The Baseline concept
- Project Control Guidelines
- The Earned Value Method
- Deviations/corrective actions
- Summary and closing
- Understand the principles of scheduling and estimation doing exercises
- Understand the relationship between project requirements, WBS, scheduling and el control
- Applying scheduling techniques to a Case Study
- Understand the Baseline and control concepts