Scheduling and Costing
March 11, 2010
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.; $349; Baldwin-Wallace, Berea
6 PDU
Instructor: Pete Evangelista
Expectations are set. Resources are committed. A project schedule that project team members quietly know is completely unworkable is driving the project. How do we get into these kinds of messes over and over again? Part of the problem is how the schedule is estimated and planned.
This full-day hands-on class focuses on identifying the work to be done, estimating techniques for quantifying the effort, and loading the work into MS-Project for resource assignment and for modeling duration. With a valid plan, we will use MS-Project for developing cost and budget reporting. This is a very interactive session where participants will have an opportunity to practice using MS-Project to for the essential project management tasks of scheduling and labor costing.
Target Audience: For project managers and project administrators who are either new to project management, new to MS-Project or just need a “refresher” or some intense practice with using the tool to support these essential project management methods.
Learning Objectives:
- Be able to create a Work Breakdown Structure
- Demonstrate different estimating techniques
- Understand various types of task dependencies
- Demonstrate schedule development and modeling in MS-Project
- Demonstrate using MS-Project to develop labor costing reports
Course Outline:
- 1) Introductions and Objectives
- 2) Scheduling components
- a) Work Breakdown Structure
- b) Dependencies
- c) Estimates
- 3) Work Breakdown Structure
- a) WBS development
- b) WBS validation
- c) Exercise #1
- 4) Types of Dependencies
- 5) Estimating Tools and Techniques
- a) Top-down
- b) Parametric
- c) Analogous
- d) Bottoms-up
- e) PERT Technique
- f) Exercise #2
- 6) Resource Loading – Duration vs Work Effort
- 7) Continuous Monitoring and Refinement
- 8) Working with the Schedule in MS-Project
- 9) Cost / Budgeting Reports
- 10) Case Study
- 11) Review
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