To qualify students in project time management, administering and interpreting the schedules.
The course will also introduce the tools to be daily used in the time management.
Training content
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
- Decompose the project scope through the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to the activities’ level
- Develop a realistic project schedule
- Establish connection between the tasks that reflect the real work
- Determine the schedule’s gaps and delays
- Determine the work duration through the PERT Analysis
- Understand the fundaments of the critical chain
- Identify and determine the project's critical path
- Reduce the time through the Compression and Fast Tracking methods
- Execute the project control considering the main change sources
Fact sheet
- Course duration [?]
- 16 hours
- Number of participants [?]
- Minimum 20 students per class
- Target audience
- Project managers, project team members, PMO members, planners and others stakeholders interested in the project management process.
- Requirements
- Desirable project management knowledge.
- Language(s) [?]
- Portuguese, English and Spanish
- Local
- Provided by the contractor. Worldwide attendance.
- Certification and PDU [?]
- All training participants will receive a participation certificate with 16 PMI's PDUs.
(PMI R.E.P. activity number: Macro005)
Teaching Methodology Top ↑
Macrosolutions had developed the market's most awarded dynamics, concerning the projects training.
In this course, the following dynamics will be used:
- My Cooking Project
- Dynamic based on the elaboration of a quick dinner for guests to demonstrate the importance of establishing the appropriate strategies for managing the project and the inherent risks to every decision making and also to the manager risk profile. More.
- Case studies
Ricardo Vargas throughout his career as a project manager and an expert in that area has selected a relevant set of case studies and exercises that allow the participants to associate real and fictional cases the to daily work.
All case studies are appropriate to the nature of the client and the training audience.
- Videos selection
In order to facilitate the student learning, videos that cover various parts of movies, commercials, home videos, etc. are used in the classroom environment to fix concepts and associate technical issues with the reality of work and also to introduce new concepts.
They are short videos with direct focus on specific topics, tools and cases.
- Simulators
To discuss some mathematical and statistical approaches, the instructor will perform specific mathematical simulations to estimate the expected results for the risks, schedules, costs, among others. They are computational methods that use mathematical concepts, operational research and statistics as a conceptual basis.
- Computer based exercises
To facilitate the learning on the digital tools, students practice exercises in a computer using softwares such as Microsoft Project, MindManager Professional and others.
Courseware
The courseware to be received by the students will consist of slides, articles and lists of exercises, and it may also contain the following special products by Ricardo Vargas:
- Book Project Management: Establishing Competitive Advantages
- Book Practical Guide to the Project Plan
- 5 Minutes PM Videocast. Practical classes with Ricardo Vargas. DVD distributed worldwide by Microsoft that celebrates the Microsoft Project 2010 launch.
Exclusive student access area
In addition to the exclusive printed material, all participants will have access to the courseware’s electronic version, to the files of exercises and to the work done in the classroom.
The access is given through the restricted site that is available and prepared by the Macrosolutions team considering each course that we provide.
This initiative is a pioneer in the educational market and also anticipates trends related to the documents’ electronic management
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Training basic program
- ‣ Course opening
- 1. The context of Project Time Management
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- Defining time management
- The definition of sucess in time management
- The main factors that improve project time management
- The main causes of project delays
- 2. The project phases
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- The 5 project phases
- The overlapping of phases in the PMBOK
- The interference of the phases in the project time management
- The 42 processes that constitute the PMBOK Guide – 4th Edition
- 3. The Project Time Management processes
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- Activity definition
- Activity sequencing
- Activity resource estimating
- Activity duration estimating
- Schedule development
- Schedule control
- 4. The interdependencies of project activities and the Network Diagram
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- The main relationships among activities
- Network Diagram
- The type of network diagrams
- 5. CPM - Critical Path Method
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- Critical Path definition
- How to determine the project’s critical path
- Total slack and free slack
- Determining the project’s different type of floats
- 6. Schedule compression
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- The importance of the compression methods to optimize the schedule
- Crashing
- Fast tracking
- 7. PERT Analysis
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- PERT Analysis
- PERT Analysis in a project
- Standard deviation and variance
- 8. CCPM – Critical Chain Project Management
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- The concepts of Theory of Constraints and Critical Chain
- ‣ Course close-out
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Supported standards and methodologies
Project Management Institute (PMI) PMBOK Guide Yes PMI Practice Standard for Estimating Yes PMI Practice Standard for Earned Value Management — PMI Practice Standard for Configuration Management — PMI Practice Standard for Risk Management — PMI Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structure Yes PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling Yes PMI Standard for Portfolio Management — PMI Standard for Program Management — PMI Project Manager Development Competency Framework — Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®) — UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC) PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environments) Yes MSP (Managing Successful Programmes) — M_O_R (Management of Risks) — P3M3 (Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management Maturity Model) — P3O (Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices) — MoP (Management of Portfolios) — MoV (Management of Value) — Scrum Alliance Scrum Methodology Yes International Project Management Association (IPMA) ICB® IPMA Competence Baseline —