Project Management Basics: Scheduling Simulation

Overview/Description
 In today's fast-paced business environment, successful project management is the equivalent of fiscal power. All major corporations have recognized that the future of their corporate success lies in their employees' abilities to effectively manage overlapping, complex projects. Of all the tasks associated with project management, scheduling proves to be one of the most essential. The Project Management Basics: Scheduling Simulation serves to test the participant's ability to determine required work effort and assign available personnel as required by a project's needs, all within the relative safety of a learning environment. The Project Management Basics: Scheduling Simulation comprises three scenarios and is based on the SkillSoft series "Project Management Basics for Business Professionals." Throughout the simulation links are provided to the following SkillSoft course: PROJ0002.

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
0.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Project Management Basics: Scheduling Simulation

  • creating a project scope statement.
  • drafting a work breakdown structure.
  • determining required work effort.
  • estimating activity duration.
  • scheduling using the precedence diagramming method.
  • determining scheduling flexibility.

    • Course Number: PROJ000S