PPC2
PROJECT PLANNING & CONTROL - Unit 2 (Advanced)
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Course Description
In today’s business environment, where projects are constrained by aggressive deadlines and limited resource availability, project managers need practical, “best practices� skills and tools. This course adds to your skill set by teaching you the methods, tools and techniques that are used in planning, monitoring and controlling projects. The appropriate educational techniques are used to provide the participant with simple, logical approaches to the effective and efficient management of projects. Your learning is reinforced through a number of “hands-on� exercises using case studies and real project examples. P3 or P3e is used throughout the course to facilitate learning and to illustrate the integration of concepts and tools. A COMPLIMENTARY CD containing custom views/layouts, tables, filters and reports is included as part of this program.
Course Schedule
#Sessions - 2 full-days
Fee - $1,400 per person plus GST
Days - Thu-Fri (9:00-16:00)
Frequency - Approximately once a month
Location - 19 Outram Street West Perth
Format - Part Lecuture and Part hands-on computer
Class size - 4 attendee’s maximum
Software Tools - P3, MS Project
#Sessions - 3 evenings
Fee - $1,850 per person plus GST
Days - Wed-Fri (18:00-21:00)
Frequency - dependant on bookings
Location - 19 Outram Street West Perth
Format - Part Lecuture and Part hands-on computer
Class size - 4 attendee’s maximum
Software Tool - P3, MS Project
Who should attend?
Professionals who now or in the future, will be leading or be a part of a project team. This includes project managers, team leaders, individuals whose principal responsibilities are as technology contributors but who will be part of project teams, and anyone needing an in-depth knowledge of how to plan and control a project.
Prerequisites
To obtain the full benefit of this course, attendees should have either completed the Project Planning and Control 1 (PPC1) or have a thorough background in the fundamentals of project management as a discipline, and use Planning software regularly.
What you will achieve?
• The skill and confidence to use a practical project planning technique
• The ability to determine if a project can truly be delivered on time, within budget and with limited resources
• An understanding of how to discover the risks necessary to meet a constrained delivery date
• The confidence to communicate project trade-offs clearly and to set attainable goals with clients, managers and project team members
• The knowledge of how to record actual project progress and then use the project baseline to spot and manage variance
• The ability to frame your questions when analyzing the project plan to spot hidden variances
What you will learn?
• The Project Planning Process - a simple and practical process for planning
• Estimating - the manner in which durations, total person effort and percent-per-day resource assignment impact one another
• Task Scheduling - an understanding of what dependency network (CPM) scheduling is and a simple method for creating and using it
• Resource Scheduling - how to solve resource over allocation and task schedule conflicts through resource leveling
• Recording Project Progress - why the conventional methods don’t work and how it can be done in a simple but accurate manner
• The Project Plan As a Model - how to use the project plan to run “what-if” scenarios
• How to best use a software tool for planning, monitoring and reporting the project. (Note: Although P3 is used to facilitate the exercises, this is principally a concepts and practical techniques course, not a specific P3 training course.)
