About
If scheduling is the practice of planning and communicating how a project will be successfully completed, then every project manager needs to know how to schedule effectively. Most schedules are developed in Microsoft Excel; a large majority of all schedules survive mostly as a pretty picture for the business case. Few schedules add much value once the project starts and the consequence is more projects failing to achieve project goals and so failing to deliver on predicted benefits and added value.
Project Scheduling Essentials is a must attend course for anyone involved in Project Management looking to gain added value from their scheduling. Value-added schedules clearly show and communicate how the project will be successfully completed. This course teaches the scheduling skills and techniques needed to successfully deliver today's projects with added value scheduling.
Key Learning Objectives:
• Learn how to add value using scheduling
• Find the schedule structure that adds the most value
• Manage and track changes to the project
• Schedule multiple projects
Who Should Attend?
• Project Schedulers
• Project Planners
• Project Managers
• Project Administrator
Training Methodology:
This intensive one-day training programme will combine tutorial sessions with practical examples. All participants will be provided with a details workbook and certificate of completion.
The course is tool agnostic, but Microsoft Project is used for demonstrations. All Scheduling techniques are relevant to any tool, such as Excel, Primavera, Project etc. though obviously some techniques are easier in some tools than others.
Course Pre-Requisites:
• A clear idea of schedule problem areas you need resolved
• Experience of working in projects
• Some skills in using a scheduling (Excel, MS Project etc) tool are useful but note required.
Outline
About Added Value Scheduling
• Why do you need added value scheduling for successful projects?
• Success focussed scheduling and turning your schedules into powerful communication tools
The Schedule Structure that adds most value
• Matching Schedule detail to your organization's project maturity level
• Defining what makes for the most powerful and useful schedules
• Creating dynamic schedules that communicate critical path correctly and are easy to change and update
• What to avoid in your schedule
Focusing on the Business Case
• Ensuring business case deliverables
• Creating professional schedules
• Calculating contingency & scheduling risks
Scheduling Techniques
• Using lean project management to save labour costs
• Time Critical projects, critical path and more
• Resource Constrained projects
• Cost Constrained projects
Managing Changes and Tracking
• Scope and other project changes.
• How to report on project progress
• Tracking for better reporting and success.
Multiple Project Scheduling
• Scheduling and reporting across multiple projects
- Benefits
- Needs
- Constraints
Facilitator
Rod Gill, Director, ACE Project Systems
Rod Gill is an experienced Project Manager and user of Microsoft Project. He:
• Has trained and consulted on project management for over 10 years
• Is a Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Project
• Develops and sells Microsoft Project companion products
• Runs a company Project Learning Ltd. that is a Microsoft Project Partner
• Presents a workshop on best practices for Microsoft Project
• Wrote the two chapters on VBA for the book Special Edition Using Microsoft Project 2000
Whilst moving from Civil Engineering to software development to business consulting, a common thread for all Rod’s work has been project management. His most valuable learning came from a series of mentors, many from the school of common sense project management.
Given his skills in software development and project management, Rod has developed a niche for helping clients develop project management methodologies and a project management information system to support it.
Rod is an experienced trainer in project management and Microsoft Project. He specialises in delivering advanced workshops on best practices to show users how best to use Project to help solve project management problems such as scheduling time critical and resource constrained projects.
Qualifications
Rod gained his engineering degree from Lancaster University in the UK. As a Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Project he has been recognised as one of the world’s leading experts on the use and effective application of Microsoft Project.
Experience
From civil engineering to software engineering to software project leader to business consultant and trainer, Rod has experience in many industries and areas of expertise. This led to the creation of ACE Project Systems in 1994 and then Project Learning in 1998 (purely to market ACE Project System’s products overseas). Since then Rod has developed and continues to update his training in project management and his workshops on the advanced use of Microsoft Project.
His companies have developed successful companion products for Microsoft Project and Project Learning is a Project Partner with Microsoft.
Rod Gill is also facilitating:
In-house Training
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