Project Planning

Overview/Description
 One of the most crucial activities that takes place during project management is planning. Projects are destined to fail if adequate attention is not given to planning the scope, the timing of activities, and project costs. The more complex the project, the better the plan must be. This course will provide you with the fundamental skills you will require to plan a project's scope, schedule, and budget.

Target Audience
 Business professionals and business managers across all business functional areas and industries who believe that basic project management skills will help them perform their job responsibilities more effectively

Expected Duration
5.0 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Scope Planning

  • recognize the benefit of learning how to plan the scope of a project.
  • match the components that should be included in a project scope statement to examples.
  • make recommendations to ensure a scope statement effectively reflects a given project.
  • match work breakdown structure levels to examples of content included in each.

    • Project Costing and Scheduling

  • recognize the importance of project costing and scheduling.
  • match the factors that are used to estimate work effort for project activities to their respective descriptions.
  • estimate normalized work effort for specified activities, in a given project.
  • identify examples of the key considerations for estimating activity duration.
  • estimate activity duration, for a given project activity.
  • match the types of dependencies to examples of each.
  • determine the changes required in a network diagram to reflect the activities of a given project.
  • calculate early and late start and finish days for a given project activity, using the critical path method.
  • determine the effect of a given event on a project's schedule.
  • develop the cost baseline, for a given project.

    • Course Number: PROJ0002