Project Time Management

Overview/Description
 Think of a symphony practice before the conductor arrives. There are various instruments all working separately on the same tune but in disparate parts - until the conductor arrives. The conductor creates perfect timing so that all the instruments work together to create beautiful music. Without the conductor the symphony would just be a bunch of noise, not a perfectly timed work of art. You are playing the role of the conductor on your projects. You manage time and make all the project pieces come together. Time management is the art of estimating, scheduling and tracking project progress. There are many factors impacting time: team skill level, technology availability, team experience with technology, outside influences, and successor and predecessor dependencies. Once the project plan has been created, with all of its estimates and speculations, it is time to implement the project. Your biggest challenge now is scheduling resources and tracking progress. In this course, you will learn to identify and quantify factors that impact the project schedule, estimate and baseline the project schedule, and learn to calculate project timing using several techniques.

Target Audience
 Anyone working on a project team, including directors, supervisors, managers, project managers and team leaders.

Expected Duration
2.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Identifying Skill Levels

  • recognize the benefit of identifying skill levels.
  • identify the elements in creating a team skill profile.
  • choose when tasks should be scheduled.
  • pick the options you have when resource skill levels impact your project.

    • Assessing the Impact of Technology

  • recognize the significance of determining technology needs.
  • identify the factors that affect the outcome of technology.
  • choose the appropriate action of a project manager based on your analysis of a technology-driven scenario.
  • specify the effects of working with multiple technologies.

    • Determining Non-project Time Constraints

  • recognize the importance of determining non-project time constraints.
  • identify ways to manage staff time issues.
  • choose the methods to manage vendors' time issues.
  • point out the factors you should consider when dealing with team work space.

    • Time-management Tools and Techniques

  • recognize the value of time-management tools and techniques.
  • identify different task relationships.
  • match the specific representation method with its definition.
  • identify ways to schedule tasks, based on the resources available.
  • identify the elements of four advanced time calculations.

    • Course Number: PROJ0213