This Project Schedule and Cost Control training course provides the skills needed to effectively establish and manage a realistic schedule and detailed budget. Through hands-on exercises, you will learn to develop an integrated budget and schedule while monitoring project performance during execution. You will be introduced to analytical techniques, including creation of a work breakdown structure, network diagramming, dependency analysis, critical path determination, three-point estimating, and assessment of resource needs and availability.
You will learn the management tools that help to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget, as well as the importance of creating baselines for the project schedules and budgets. To communicate your project's progress to stakeholders, you will learn to use earned value analysis and other reporting techniques. Hands-on exercises will demonstrate the mechanisms and importance of formal change control procedures.
By attending Project Schedule and Cost Control workshop, delegates will learn:
- How to develop a balanced plan
- Network diagramming methodologies
- Approaches to identifying a project's critical path
- Time and cost estimating techniques
- Scheduling techniques
- How to include various types of cost and expenditures into budgets
- Practical approaches to budget development
- Efficient ways to gauge and report progress using earned value analysis
The Project Schedule and Cost Control class is ideal for:
- Associate project managers, project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, product managers, and program managers.