 | | | Project Management Training CD Project Management: Time Management In Project Management: Time Management, participants learn how to identify the activities involved with a project and construct a network diagram based on those activities. They learn how to determine the critical path for a project. They also learn about several mathematical analysis techniques, such as CPM and PERT, to develop project schedules. Learn To: - Differentiate among tasks, activities, and events.
- Convert an activity list into a network diagram.
- Differentiate between bottom-up and top-down estimating.
- Calculate expected activity completion time.
- Identify how CPM, PERT, and GERT are used for schedule development.
- Calculate project duration using a project's critical path.
- Apply methods of duration compression during schedule development.
- Calculate schedule variance.
Content Emphasis: Skills-Based Audience: Individuals who want to learn to effectively schedule all of the activities required to complete a project. Total Learning Time: 2 - 4 Hour(s) | Product | CODE | Price | Order | | Project Management: Time Management CD | ng41503 | $74.95 | | Project Management Training CD Course Contents Unit 1: Activity Definition and Sequencing
Duration: 0.5 - 1 Hour(s) - List the five steps of the project management process.
- Differentiate between tasks, activities, and events.
- Identify predecessor, concurrent, and successor activities.
- Sequence activities according to mandatory, discretionary, and external dependencies.
- Convert an activity list into a network diagram.
- Define the precedence and arrow diagramming methods.
- Simulation Overview: In this simulation, you will be meeting with Janet Porter, Icon's Director of Business Development. She will be giving you an exercise to identify your knowledge of activity definition and sequencing. Through her questions and your answers, you will learn why time management is important, how dependencies affect activity sequencing, and the importance of the precedence diagramming method.
Unit 2: Assessing Activity Duration
Duration: 0.5 - 1 Hour(s) - Describe the purpose of assessing activity duration.
- Differentiate between activity duration and work effort.
- Define phased, parametric, and heuristic estimating.
- Differentiate between bottom-up and top-down estimating.
- List the three assumptions that are made when estimating activity duration.
- Calculate expected activity completion time.
- Simulation Overview: In this simulation, you will be meeting with your project team to assess activity duration for the first phase of creating a video-conferencing network. Phase I consists of establishing and testing the network between the Dallas and New York offices. The video-conferencing software must be available on 40% of the PCs in each of Icon's locations. Your team is responsible for upgrading the hardware at the New York location to meet that benchmark.
Unit 3: Schedule Development
Duration: 0.5 - 1 Hour(s) - Calculate float for project activities.
- Identify how CPM, PERT, and GERT are used for schedule development.
- Calculate a project's earliest start time, earliest finish time, latest finish time, and latest start time.
- Calculate project duration using a project's critical path.
- Follow nine steps for CPM scheduling.
- Apply methods of duration compression during schedule development.
- Simulation Overview: In this simulation, you will be meeting with Ronald Spear, the Vice President of Marketing. He will be giving you exercises to identify your knowledge of schedule development. Through his questions and your answers, you will learn what major constraints to consider during schedule development, the different mathematical analysis techniques for schedule development, and what methods of duration compression should be used during schedule development.
Unit 4: Schedule Control
Duration: 0.5 - 1 Hour(s) - Describe the purpose of schedule control.
- Follow four steps when leveling resources.
- Describe how schedule updates are beneficial for schedule control.
- Calculate schedule variance.
- Take six proactive steps to keep a schedule on track.
- Simulation Overview: In this simulation, you will be meeting with Nancy Hurst, one of Icon's Product Managers, who has extensive project management experience. She will be giving you exercises to identify your knowledge of schedule control. Through her questions and your answers, you will review your knowledge of resource loading, discuss resource leveling, and identify ways to keep your project schedule on track.
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