Project Activity Planning (PMBOK 2000)

Overview/Description
 In today's highly competitive marketplace, a company's reputation depends on whether it can deliver on time and within budget. Lost time translates into lost revenue for both company and client! Sound activity planning can minimize the probability of incurring such losses. Clear definition of activities early in a project preempts the discovery of missed activities later. Sequencing activities in an optimal manner lessens time wastage and speeds completion of a project. In this course, you will learn strategies to define and sequence activities in a project. Deliver on time and within budget. Stay competitive! This course is aligned with "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK (r) Guide) 2000 Edition, published by the Project Management Institute (PMI (r)).

Target Audience
 This series is specifically targeted at project managers, project team members, functional managers with employees assigned to project teams, project stakeholders, any team manager or member interested in project management, executives committed to their organization's growth, managers required to take on new challenges, and top managers with vision.

Expected Duration
4.0 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Activity Definition

  • recognize the benefits of using activity definition in project time management.
  • classify project information according to the appropriate activity definition input category.
  • effectively decompose a deliverables-level WBS to the activity level.
  • classify the tools and techniques used in activity definition.
  • evaluate the effectiveness of activity definition outputs.

    • Activity Sequencing

  • recognize the value of using activity sequencing techniques in project time management.
  • classify examples of activity sequencing inputs according to type.
  • perform activity sequencing calculations, given a precedence network diagram with early schedule dates.
  • perform activity sequencing calculations, given an arrow diagramming method (ADM) network.
  • determine whether a given network diagram uses the conditional diagramming method (CDM).
  • identify when to use network diagram templates for activity sequencing.
  • recommend improvements to a given project network diagram.
  • determine an appropriate final activity list, given an initial activity list and a project network diagram.

    • Course Number: PROJ0441