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Provided by Serebra Learning Corporation
Project Management Essentials: Project Scheduling and Budgeting offers the student an overview of the information required to develop a project schedule and budget. The program details types of network diagrams Gantt charts CPM scheduling and activity duration compression. In addition the program details actions for optimizing project activities and factors that influence cost estimating.
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Project Management Essentials: Project Scheduling and Budgeting
Serebra Learning Corporation 119 - 7565 132nd Street Surrey BC V3W 1K5 Canada
Audience
Managers supervisors and team leaders who have to manage projects and want to learn the basic principles needed to schedule and budget a project.
Objective
- Identify the benefits of schedule development.
- Identify the advantages of using Gantt Charts.
- Identify characteristics of the critical path.
- Sequence the steps for CPM scheduling.
- Identify the organizational financial issues that can affect project costs.
- Identify the actions that can help you make the most of available funds.
Topics Include
Unit 1: Developing the Project Schedule
- Identify the benefits of schedule development.
- Identify features of the Critical Path Method.
- Identify the mathematical analysis techniques for scheduling.
- Identify the types of arrow charting that can be used to create a project network diagram.
- Identify features of network diagrams.
- Identify the advantages of using Gantt Charts.
- Identify features of a Gantt Chart.
- Simulation Overview:
- In this simulation you meet with David Morris an experienced project manager at Icon. David will ask you a series of questions about the fundamentals of project development and the various techniques and diagrams that you can use to ensure effective project schedules.
Unit 2: Scheduling the Project
- Identify characteristics of the critical path.
- Identify features of CPM and PERT.
- Sequence the steps for CPM scheduling.
- Calculate EFT for an activity.
- Calculate LST for an activity.
- Calculate float for an activity.
- Perform CPM calculations.
- Identify the methods of duration compression.
- Simulation Overview:
- In this simulation you will be meeting with Icon's Director of Product Development Ronald Spear. Ronald has many years of experience developing and implementing project schedules and he will be assessing your knowledge of the CPM and PERT techniques as well as methods of duration compression.
Unit 3: Understanding Financial Issues
- Identify the historical data sources you can use to estimate cost.
- Identify common issues related to cost estimating.
- Identify the organizational financial issues that can affect project costs.
- Identify project costs.
- Identify the actions that can help you make the most of available funds.
- Identify actions that can help you optimize the project budget.
- Simulation Overview:
- In this simulation you will be meeting with Caroline Harris Icon's Marketing Manager. As part of Caroline's job she deals frequently with project cost estimation and budgeting issues. To prepare you for handling similar constraints with your own projects Caroline will ask you a series of questions to gauge your understanding of the financial issues that surround the project management process.
Duration
4
Minimum Requirements
The CDROM version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
- At least a double speed CDROM drive.
- An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
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Serebra Learning Corporation 119 - 7565 132nd Street Surrey BC V3W 1K5 Canada
About The Training Provider: Serebra Learning Corporation
Serebra Learning Corporation - Serebra Learning Corporation provides technology-based training solutions through a combination of Cortex, its proprietary learning management system (LMS), and a curriculum catalog with over 1,825 current courseware titles. Founded in 1987 (as FirstClass Systems, with a name change to Serebra in 2001), Serebra has over sixteen years" experience delivering e-learning solutions to both...
