An Intensive 5-day Training Course
PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP®)
Understanding how Schedules Align to Strategy
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INTRODUCTION
Effective scheduling is critical to project success. The PMI-SP® proves you have the advanced knowledge to create, maintain, and analyse project schedules that align with strategic goals.
This certification demonstrates your ability to develop and maintain project schedules, manage complex timelines across global teams, and impact project outcomes with proven scheduling knowledge and skill.
This EuroMaTech training course will highlight:
- How to plan for project scheduling
- The importance of the project environment towards project scheduling
- The importance of governance, standard processes and templates
- Identifying stakeholders and people as resources
- Identify the essential steps in planning projects to set expectations of controlling the schedule
- Understand that different estimating techniques will have differing effects on the schedule
- Using practical, processes to manage project risk, change and issues
- Appropriate project execution and control methods to assist reporting
TRAINING OBJECTIVES
The PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) training course is designed to provide delegates with the skills and knowledge to successfully make decisions about scheduling during the project cycle. As such, delegates will:
- Understand schedule strategy
- Understand Schedule Planning and Development
- Understand Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
- Understand Schedule Closeout
- Understand Stakeholder Communications Management
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) training course is intended for individuals who want to understand, develop and refine their scheduling abilities.
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Project Managers
- Project leaders
- Project schedulers
- Project planners
- Project team members
- Team leaders
- Product managers
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
Participants of this EuroMaTech training course will receive thorough training on the subjects covered by the seminar outline. The tutor will utilise proven adult learning teaching and facilitation techniques with theory and skill training, traditional lectures, as well as hands-on exercises, group discussions, video and case studies. Whilst important learning will take place, having fun and receiving memorable learning is paramount.
TRAINING SUMMARY
This training course will equip learners with the essential knowledge and skills to master scheduling practices in the PMI-SP® certification. This course offers a practical, step-by-step approach to study for the multi-choice exam with questions mapped to the various domains. Preparing involves both technical scheduling skills and strong stakeholder engagement abilities.
TRAINING OUTLINE
Day 1: Schedule Strategy
- Establishing and documenting the schedule approach, policies and procedures
- EEF and OPA’s
- Project lifecycles
- Document control processes
- Roles and responsibilities
- Scheduling objectives and goals
- Selection of a scheduling tool
- Develop the schedule management plan
- Develop the scheduling-related components for project management plans
- Role of the scheduler, and scheduling procedures
Day 2: Schedule Planning and Development
- Identifying and Managing Project Stakeholders
- Identifying Project Roles & Responsibilities
- The Project Management Sequence
- Developing the Project Scope
- Creating Effective Work & Cost Breakdown Structures
- Activity definition
- Activity execution techniques (Estimating duration/time, effort/work)
Day 3: Schedule Planning and Development
- Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
- Dependency relationship types (Finish to Start, Start to Finish, Finish to Finish, Start to Start)
- Leads and lags
- Resource allocation techniques
- Activity Network Diagram (AND)
- Capacity requirements/resource requirements
- Schedule risk-assessment techniques (for example, Monte Carlo simulation, PERT)
- Critical Chain Method
- Contingency reserve or buffer (funds, budget, or time)
- Cost and schedule integration
- Scheduling techniques
- Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)
- Inter-project Dependencies
- Milestones
Day 4: Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
- EVM and progress measurement techniques (for example, percent complete, actual/remaining duration, estimate to complete)
- Industry standards, guidelines, and best practices with respect to activity status update frequency, format, and content
- Metrics to monitor, analyze, and control the schedule
- Cost and schedule reserve analysis
- Available data, logical data organization/relationships within data elements
- Electronic file storage and retrieval standards
- Schedule risk analysis
- Project schedule change control
- Negotiation
- Conflict resolution
Day 5: Schedule Closeout & Stakeholder Communications Management
- Methods and techniques used to maintain visibility of project schedule
- Targeting communications to senior management
- Schedule review and close-out procedures
- Feedback techniques
- Schedule review techniques
- Schedule issue management
- Transition planning
- Celebrate success
- Lessons Learned
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ACCREDITATION
EuroMaTech is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.NASBARegistry.org.
FAQ
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- Classroom Training: Experience in-person learning with expert instructors. Engage in interactive discussions, hands-on activities, and benefit from face-to-face networking.
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