Project Planning Skills
for Defining and Achieving Project Success
Project managers must work within tight schedules, manage resources across the organization and deliver results on time and within budget. If there's one thing on which everybody agrees, planning is the single most important activity PMs should engage in to achieve these goals.
A detailed, systematic, team-involved plan is the absolute foundation upon which all successful projects are built. Without it, risks become greater, time is spent poorly, money is spent unwisely and projects go off track. Project managers—who are also strong leaders—know that having the skills to plan effectively up front will benefit them throughout the project's lifecycle.
In order to balance resources and deliver under strict deadlines in the face of ever-increasing customer expectations, effective project managers need the core skills required to schedule and deliver critical projects on time. Building a strong, detailed project plan, creating a realistic, closely managed schedule, and effectively estimating and managing resources are all critical competencies for today's project managers.
The following courses will help you develop the critical planning abilities needed for achieving project success.
Project Scheduling: Controlling the Project Timeline
Course 248 • 3 Days
You will learn how to:
- Develop realistic schedules to achieve timely project delivery
- Construct project network diagrams to identify the sequence of work
- Calculate Critical Path to determine the project duration
- Effectively assign resources to build a realistic baseline schedule
- Perform schedule analysis and recommend corrective actions to keep the project on track
- Build readable and reliable project reports to keep stakeholders informed on progress
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Project Budgeting and Estimating:
Taking Control of Your Projects
Course 923 • 3 Days
You will learn how to:
- Create an accurate budget for any level of work from individual project tasks to entire portfolios
- Estimate tasks using activity-based costing, and aggregate to project budgets
- Quantify risk to justify contingency funding and produce a defensible baseline
- Manage the program budget, allocating funds to projects with the best rate of return
- Align the organization's budget with the customer value proposition and strategic objectives
- Leverage Earned Value Analysis to determine project status, forecasts and any necessary corrections
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Building a Successful Business Analysis Work Plan
Course 912 • 3 Days
You will learn how to:
- Develop a work plan that successfully addresses the needs of a business analyst (BA)
- Quickly integrate the BA role into the overall project strategy
- Apply planning best practices to get projects done on time and within budget
- Construct a work plan that aligns with the goals of stakeholders
- Create realistic estimates that account for uncertainty
- Keep the project on track while meeting stakeholder expectations
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Microsoft Project 2007:
A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction
Course 299 • 3 Days
You will learn how to:
- Plan, build and manage project schedules and budgets using Microsoft Project Professional
- Build a project plan, enter tasks and develop calendars
- Establish task constraints and deadlines, and create task dependencies
- Forecast and allocate human and material resources
- Track progress, update plans and monitor variances between target and actual project deliverables
- Create dynamic reports and custom views to communicate project information
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