Plan the handover of professional project planning and scheduling so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.
Professional Project Planning and Scheduling Using Specialist Platforms
Move professional project planning and scheduling from general awareness to a repeatable, reviewable practice.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
A schedule for professional project planning and scheduling without a critical path is a wish list with dates. Scope on planning and scheduling expands through small agreements made in isolation. The version of this aspect of project and portfolio delivery described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of professional project planning and scheduling and supervised application. The programme converts this area of project and portfolio delivery from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. Applied research in project and portfolio delivery consistently shows that early structure around planning and scheduling reduces downstream rework. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting professional project planning and scheduling, ready to be adapted internally. The programme works equally well for those formalising planning and scheduling for the first time and those improving an existing approach. It ends with a prioritised list of changes to the project and portfolio delivery capability that the participant is prepared to defend internally.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Close planning and scheduling properly and capture lessons while they are still accurate.
Establish quality acceptance criteria for the deliverables of professional project planning and scheduling.
Plan handover and benefit realisation for planning and scheduling.
Control change to professional project planning and scheduling so every variation has a price and a decision.
Build a register of the risks attaching to planning and scheduling and keep it current.
Apply a repeatable review cycle to professional project planning and scheduling and act on what it produces.
Who Should Attend
Risk managers supporting professional project planning and scheduling.
Technical staff being prepared for supervisory responsibility over planning and scheduling.
Officers preparing reports on professional project planning and scheduling for boards or oversight committees.
Technical leads delivering work packages within planning and scheduling.
Programme and portfolio managers overseeing professional project planning and scheduling.
Planners and schedulers building the timeline for planning and scheduling.
Course Modules
Professional project planning and scheduling: stakeholders, communication and support
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Measuring progress on professional project planning and scheduling honestly
- Establish the boundary of professional project planning and scheduling and record what sits outside it.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to planning and scheduling will be introduced.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether professional project planning and scheduling is improving.
- Agree the escalation threshold for planning and scheduling in advance.
Session 2Managing suppliers delivering part of planning and scheduling
- Plan handover of professional project planning and scheduling to the team that will operate it.
- Review at each gate whether planning and scheduling should continue at all.
- Agree the smallest change to professional project planning and scheduling that would be visibly useful.
- Set the change control process for planning and scheduling and require cost and time impact.
Planning and scheduling: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Where planning and scheduling typically breaks, and why
- Anticipate the objections professional project planning and scheduling will raise and prepare the answers.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on planning and scheduling.
- Define how the benefit from professional project planning and scheduling will be measured after closure.
- Register the risks to planning and scheduling with owner, probability and impact.
Session 2Building a schedule for planning and scheduling with a real critical path
- Agree what will be standardised in professional project planning and scheduling and what will not.
- Estimate planning and scheduling using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
- Compare resource demand from professional project planning and scheduling against other commitments.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of planning and scheduling current.
Planning and scheduling: schedule, critical path and realistic duration
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What has to be agreed before work on planning and scheduling starts
- Measure progress on professional project planning and scheduling by value earned, not tasks ticked.
- Build reporting on planning and scheduling that surfaces problems while they are small.
- Map stakeholders of professional project planning and scheduling by influence and current level of support.
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of planning and scheduling.
Session 2Pricing every change to professional project planning and scheduling
- Build the competence framework that supports professional project planning and scheduling.
- Define the decision gates for planning and scheduling and what evidence each requires.
- Compare the cost of professional project planning and scheduling with the cost of its absence.
- Arrange the handover of planning and scheduling so capability survives staff changes.
Planning and scheduling: governance, gates and decision rights
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Writing the scope of planning and scheduling including what is excluded
- Check that professional project planning and scheduling still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Set the review interval for planning and scheduling and who attends.
- Identify the critical path through professional project planning and scheduling and the float elsewhere.
- Reduce the variation in how planning and scheduling is carried out between teams.
Session 2The decisions in planning and scheduling that cannot be delegated
- Benchmark the organisation's professional project planning and scheduling against comparable operations.
- Prepare the summary of planning and scheduling that senior management will read.
- Manage supplier performance on professional project planning and scheduling against contract, not goodwill.
- Write the scope statement for planning and scheduling including explicit exclusions.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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