Project Scheduling

Course Overview

Project Scheduling is a practical course designed to equip participants with the skills required to develop, manage, monitor, and control effective project schedules. The course covers activity identification, sequencing, duration estimation, dependencies, milestones, critical path analysis, resource scheduling, Gantt charts, schedule monitoring, and corrective action.

Target Participants

  • Project managers and project officers
  • Project coordinators and team leaders
  • Managers and supervisors
  • Programme and portfolio management professionals
  • Government and public-sector officers
  • NGO and development professionals
  • Business and operations professionals
  • Consultants and project team members

Course Objectives

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

  • Understand fundamental project scheduling principles.
  • Identify and organize project activities and tasks.
  • Develop work breakdown structures for scheduling.
  • Estimate activity durations and establish dependencies.
  • Develop realistic project timelines and milestones.
  • Apply critical path and schedule analysis techniques.
  • Develop Gantt charts and project schedules.
  • Allocate and optimize resources within project schedules.
  • Monitor schedule performance and identify delays.
  • Apply corrective actions to maintain project timelines.

Course Outline

1. Introduction to Project Scheduling

  • Project scheduling concepts
  • Importance of effective scheduling
  • Scheduling processes
  • Roles and responsibilities

2. Project Activities and Work Breakdown Structure

  • Identifying project activities
  • Work breakdown structures
  • Work packages and tasks
  • Activity lists and descriptions

3. Activity Sequencing and Dependencies

  • Activity relationships
  • Predecessors and successors
  • Dependencies and constraints
  • Network diagrams

4. Activity Duration Estimation

  • Estimating activity durations
  • Time estimation techniques
  • Assumptions and constraints
  • Managing schedule uncertainty

5. Developing the Project Schedule

  • Project calendars
  • Start and finish dates
  • Milestones
  • Baseline schedules

6. Gantt Charts and Scheduling Tools

  • Developing Gantt charts
  • Schedule visualization
  • Scheduling software and tools
  • Updating project schedules

7. Critical Path and Schedule Analysis

  • Critical path method (CPM)
  • Critical and non-critical activities
  • Float and slack
  • Identifying schedule constraints

8. Resource Scheduling

  • Resource requirements
  • Resource allocation
  • Resource leveling
  • Managing resource constraints

9. Schedule Monitoring and Control

  • Tracking schedule progress
  • Planned versus actual performance
  • Identifying delays and variances
  • Corrective and preventive actions

Course Schedules:

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