Overview
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Learn how to proactively manage project schedules. Get project management tips to resolve schedule conflicts, shorten timeframes, and reduce costs.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you need to know
- Showcase of project schedule
- How to use the exercise files
- Why do you need a schedule?
- Schedules within the project life cycle
- Develop a schedule management plan
- Determine the level of detail in your schedule
- Identify project activities
- Add milestones to your schedule
- Organize project work
- Estimate duration and work
- Methods for estimating activities
- Put activities in order
- Handle lag in dependencies
- Problems with start-to-start dependencies
- Best practices for sequencing activities
- Plan resources at a high level
- Procure resources
- Define resources in your schedule
- Balance resource assignment variables
- Keep an assignment variable fixed
- Assign resources to activities
- Replace generic resources with people
- Working with part-time workers and teams
- Working with remote teams
- What is the critical path?
- Determine the critical path
- Put the critical path to work
- Too many or too few critical tasks
- Lengthen, delay, or split assignments
- Adjust the level of work over time
- Replace overallocated resources
- Include schedule contingency time
- Baseline the schedule
- Proactively manage a schedule
- Update progress in the schedule
- Find schedule problems
- Fast-track to shorten a schedule
- Pay more to shorten a schedule
- Change the schedule to reduce cost
- Reduce scope
- Improve schedules
- Next steps
