Project Scope Planning and Definitions (Fundamentals)

• Introduction to Project Management
• Scope Planning
• Work Packages
• Scope Execution Plan
• Triple Constraints - Time Cost, Scope
• Project Delivery Systems

Project Schedule Planning

• Economic Evaluation and impact of interest rates
• Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
• Project Estimating
• Gantt Chart - Schedule Baseline
• Precedence Network Diagramming
• Building schedule logic
• What is float?

Critical Path and Network Scheduling

• Activity development
• Network calculations
• Forward and backward pass
• Lead and Lag Scheduling
• Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
• Time-Cost-Scope Trade-off

Advanced Planning Methods and Project Control

• Preparing a Line of Balance Schedule (LSM)
• Project Control Systems
• Earned Value Analysis
• Earned Value Reporting
• Resource Allocation Algorithms for Resource Prioritization
• Time and Cost Tradeoff

Progress Reporting and Schedule Acceleration

• Progress Tracking and Monitoring
• Options for Accelerating the Schedule
• Crashing the Schedule - How?
• Lean Approaches