Certified Project Leader: Project Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring, Reporting and Control
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Certified Project Leader: Project Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring, Reporting and Control Course
Introduction:
Many projects in the private and public sectors experience significant schedule and budget overruns, resulting in failure to achieve organizational financial and strategic objectives. This is often attributed to project managers' failure to effectively apply modern project planning, monitoring, control, and progress reporting tools and techniques. As a result, costs increase, and organizations suffer substantial financial losses.
Course Objectives:
This 5-day course will provide you with a proven set of methods, processes, tools, and techniques to develop a systematic and dynamic project plan to ensure progressive monitoring and reporting of project progress.
This will enable the team to:
- Integrate scope, time, resources, and cost management into a dynamic, manageable plan
- Develop project network diagrams for CPM and advanced PERT calculations to identify schedule and cost risks
- Maintain continuous project performance and delivery control
- Accurately estimate and allocate project costs and resources
- Measure, forecast, and control project performance by employing earned value techniques
- Compressor accelerate the schedule when required by adverse circumstances
- Develop a project recovery plan for budget and schedule overruns
- Produce clear and concise project progress reports
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for project team leaders, project planning engineers and heads, and senior project control and business services professionals who have the responsibility for planning and controlling project schedules and costs in client and contracting companies.
Course Outlines:
Project Fundamentals and Scope Planning
- Project scope and scope statement
- What is project management?
- Project management framework
- Project stakeholders
- Work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Project charter document
Project Schedule & Contingency Planning
- Project planning
- Milestones chart
- Estimating activity duration
- Dependency analysis
- Concept of float
- Program evaluation and review technique
Project Cost Estimating & Budgeting
- Project resourcing
- Project cost management
- Cost estimates
- Purpose of cost estimates
- Parametric estimating
- Project budgeting
- Cash flow analysis
- Time value of money
Project Resourcing & Accelerating Project Schedule
- Resource handling
- Crashing networks
- Linear time-cost trade-off
- Case study
- Identification of risks in projects
- Risk analysis and management
Project Execution Management and Recovery Plan
- Project execution
- Performance measures
- The project s-curve
- Project control & system variations
- Earned value management
- Project variance analysis
- Post-project review