There is no entry requirement or assumed project and risk management experience.

Students will require access to Microsoft Project to undertake the activities.

By the end of this course participants will be able to:

• Explain the role of project scheduling within the project lifecycle
• Apply recognised schedule development techniques
• Develop project schedules using Microsoft Project
• Establish relationships between project activities
• Perform critical path analysis
• Allocate and manage resources within a schedule
• Baseline and maintain project schedules
• Monitor schedule performance and progress
• Produce schedule reports for stakeholders
• Apply project controls techniques to support project delivery

Module 1: Scheduling Fundamentals

• Why project schedules matter
• Planning versus scheduling
• Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
• Schedule maturity principles
• Schedule development process

Module 2: Building Schedules in Microsoft Project

• Creating projects
• Calendars and working time
• Tasks and milestones
• Dependencies and relationships
• Constraints

Module 3: Critical Path and Schedule Analysis

• Critical path analysis
• Float and slack
• Schedule optimisation
• Common scheduling mistakes

Module 4: Resource Planning

• Resource assignment
• Resource levelling
• Capacity considerations
• Resource reporting

Module 5: Schedule Management

• Baselines
• Progress updates
• Forecasting
• Variance analysis
• Reporting

Module 6: Practical Project Controls

• Schedule governance
• Schedule reviews
• Managing change
• Schedule health checks
• Lessons learnt from real projects

This course is suitable for:

• Project Managers
• Project Officers
• Project Coordinators
• Schedulers and Planners
• PMO personnel
• Project Engineers
• Program Managers
• Project Controls practitioners
• Team members responsible for planning and reporting project activities

Unlike traditional software training courses, this program focuses on applying scheduling techniques in realistic project environments.

Participants will work through practical scheduling exercises using Microsoft Project and learn how experienced project controls professionals:

• Develop realistic project schedules
• Apply schedule governance principles
• Identify schedule risks and issues
• Maintain accurate forecasting information
• Support management decision-making through quality schedule reporting

The skills developed during this course can be applied immediately across a wide range of project environments

Students that successfully undertake this course will be issued with an official Certificate of Completion from Certitude Australia.

Students will be provided with:

• Printed copy of a student workbook; and
• Access to electronic version of presentation slides.