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Project scheduling and costing Scope
Competencies
- Achieving results
- Optimising resources
- Organisation, planning and control
Target audience
- Managers, engineers or scientists with budgetary and scheduling responsibilities in a project.
Prerequisite
- Prior education in project engineering or professional exposure to project management.
Objectives
- To become familiar with techniques in use for project time and cost management (and espacially as implemented in project scheduling software as OpenProj, GanttProject or Microsoft-Project).
Duration
Features
- Terminology used in this course complies with PM BoK (Project Management Body of Knowledge published by Project Management Institute).
- Techniques presented in this course are implemented in project management software tools.
- Practices presented in this course are consistent with PRINCE2 (Projects IN Controled Environments) published by the OGC (Office of Government Commerce).
Contents
Construction of project schedule
- Construction of project network diagram using different types of links (finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish, start-to-finish).
Time analysis
- PERT-CPM and the negative float.
- Application with software tools (GanttProject, OpenProj, Microsoft Project).
Resource analysis
- Resource and budget estimates.
- Resource histograms and the S-curve: application with software tools (GanttProject, OpenProj, Microsoft Project).
- Case study to integrate time and resource analysis.
- The two types of resource leveling (duration driven and effort driven).
Earned Value Management
- Cost control standard criteria: PV (Planned Value), AC (Actual Cost) and EV (Earned Value).
- Case study: integration of time and cost management in projects
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