Project Scheduling and Cost Planning

PURPOSE

This project management training course focuses on creating thorough, trustworthy plans with time and cost estimates that provide the project’s owner or sponsor high levels of project delivery confidence. Plans must also be realistic and take into account any hazards that may arise throughout and after the project lifespan.

 

The decision to move forward with a project is based on preliminary, conceptually high-level estimates. These, however, can have a wide range, therefore more precise predictions must serve as the foundation for the schedule forecasts and cash flow calculations.

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the course, participants should be able to:

Utilizing the right resource management strategies, you may confidently anticipate project time and cost.

Determine, evaluate, and manage risks related to budget, time, scope, and resources.

Recognize project control and performance

Evaluating, predicting, and managing project performance using earned value methodologies

Create a recovery plan for the project in case of budget and schedule overruns.

 

DURATION:5 Days

TARGET AUDIENCE

Project managers, cost estimators, project schedulers, project designers, project planners, contract specialists, project procurement and purchasing staff, and project control and business services specialists who are in charge of creating cost and schedule estimates and project proposals in client and contracting companies are examples of people with a project role.

Senior managers who desire to comprehend project management best practices

Anyone who wants to learn more about estimating and control in a project environment should read this.

COURSE CONTENT

TOPIC 1: Foundations of Project Estimating

Basic definitions of project management

Time, cost, and scope restrictions

Methods for selecting projects

Setting the project’s scope

Cost budgeting and control, cost estimation, and time management

Managing project schedules with the Critical Path Method

 

TOPIC 2: Developing Project Budget & Schedule Control

Requirements for resources

Project costs, direct and indirect

Scheduling and preparing scarce resources

Possibilities for speeding up the schedule

How can I crash the schedule?

 

TOPIC 3: Risk Management

Identification, analysis, and management of risks

Formulas for probability, standard deviation, and contingency reserve

characteristics of network activity danger

Application: Predicting the length of a project

Managing project risk

 

TOPIC 4: Evaluating the Success of the Project

Analyzing crucial chains and using buffers

Scheduling contrast between imbalanced and balanced

Evaluating the timeliness of planned progress

Distribution of risk in contracting

Current status and working circumstances

Managing a range of circumstances

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TOPIC 5: Managing and Recovering Project Estimates

Cost and schedule variations

Progress tracking graphs and trend analysis

Forecasting schedule and cost variance

Analysis of the schedule and cost recovery

Timetable and cost recovery strategy

Controls and baselines for project recovery