4

 Project Planning & Control


(
PM Knowledge Areas & PM Process)

Introduction:
Getting started with PM software through hands-on, basic training. Participants will gain a thorough background in the concepts of planning and scheduling while learning P3. This Four-days course leads you through hands-on workshops that create and track an entire project to completion using the three basic elements of project management: schedule, resources, and costs.

Audience: New Primavera Project Planner, MS Project users
This course targets company senior management, department / functional heads, project managers and project team members in the successful planning, management, students and control of projects.

COURSE OUTLINE

All sections of the course are based on theoretical and practical knowledge with many examples of the application of project management in completing successful projects.  The course is interactive with lectures using presentations, question and answer sessions, individual and group exercises, and a concluding test of the principles to reinforce the transfer of project management knowledge to the participants.

The subjects for lectures / discussion will be on:

Ø     Introduction

      Ø     Fundamentals of Project Management Establishing the Project & Coding
             Structures  

Ø     Scope Management 

Ø     Time Management 

Ø     Cost Management 

Ø     Earned Value 

Ø     Managing Resources 

Ø     Developing the Schedule  

Ø     PM Process 

Ø     Software Introduction
 

Primavera Project Planner 

Ø     Planning and Scheduling with Primavera Project Planner 

Ø     Project Management Phases 

Ø     Establishing the Project and Coding Structures 

Ø     Activity Codes 

Ø     Defining Calendars 

Ø     Adding and Organizing Activities 

Ø     Defining Activity Relationships 

Ø     Calculating the Scheduling 

Ø     Applying Constraints to a Schedule 

Ø     Customizing the Layout 

Ø     Managing Resources  

Ø     Calculating Costs 

Ø     Earned Value 

Ø     Creating the Target Plan 

Ø     Updating the Current Schedule 

Ø     Producing Effective Output 

Ø     Tabular and Graphical reports 

Ø     Steps for Using PRIMAVERA
 

MS PROJECT 

About scheduling 

Ø      How Microsoft Office Project schedules a project 

Ø      How the project start date affects the schedule 

Ø      The default settings for calculating the schedule 

Ø      How constraints affect the schedule 

Ø      How deadline dates affect the schedule 

Ø      How calendars affect the schedule 

Ø      How resource assignments drive the schedule 

Ø      About constraints 

Ø      Flexible constraints 

Ø      Inflexible constraints 

Ø      Setting of constraints 

Ø      Setting of constraints 

Ø      About WBS codes 

Ø      Types of WBS codes 

Ø      Creating a custom WBS code 
 

Prerequisites:
                         A working knowledge of Windows 

 
 

 

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