Mastering best practices in planning

• Being able to create and update a simple project schedule.
• Understanding planning processes
• Being able to establish and monitor schedule indicators.
• Creating a schedule in MS Project.
• Updating a schedule in MS Project.

DAY 1

WHY PLAN?
• Management tools,
• Communication tool,
• Decision-making tool.

PLANNING PROCESSES
• Task description,
• Scheduling,
• Duration estimation,
• Management of scheduling conflicts,
• Master schedule and detailed schedules.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF PLANNING
• Earliest-start schedule creation,
• Latest-start schedule creation.

PROGRESS INDICATORS

DAY 2

UPDATING A SCHEDULE
• Collecting actual progress,
• Creating a baseline,
• Trend and variance analysis (Gantt – deviations).

PRACTICAL APPLICATION USING A DEDICATED TOOL (MS PROJECT)
• Creating a new schedule,
• Building a schedule (sequencing, assigning workloads, allocating resources, etc.),
• Updating and tracking deadlines,
• Tips and best practices.

Practical workshop, certification-type exercise.

Project Manager, Business Manager, Project Controller, Junior Planner.

Mastering the content of the MDP_01 course.
Knowledge of scheduling.