Project Management

Specialist Professional Accreditation in Complex Project Scheduling

Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to complex project scheduling accreditation.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Specialist Professional Accreditation in Complex Project Scheduling
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Stakeholders withdraw support for complex project scheduling accreditation quietly before they withdraw it formally. Most recovery effort on scheduling accreditation is spent on problems that were visible early. Practitioner evidence points the same way: the practice within project and portfolio delivery improves fastest where responsibility for it is named and owned. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of complex project scheduling accreditation to standardise and which to leave flexible. Most organisations already have a policy on this strand of project and portfolio delivery; far fewer can show it working. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from scheduling accreditation, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. The content is relevant to those who own complex project scheduling accreditation and to those who are held accountable for its results. The course covers scheduling accreditation at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for the project and portfolio delivery capability survives a hostile question.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Manage dependencies between complex project scheduling accreditation and other initiatives.

  • Design the governance and decision rights for scheduling accreditation.

  • Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around complex project scheduling accreditation.

  • Track progress on scheduling accreditation by earned value rather than by activity completed.

  • Handle the trade-offs in complex project scheduling accreditation between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.

  • Manage contracts and suppliers delivering parts of scheduling accreditation.

  • Set a realistic target state for complex project scheduling accreditation and a defensible route to it.

Who Should Attend

  • Project sponsors accountable for the outcome of complex project scheduling accreditation.

  • Newly appointed managers taking on scheduling accreditation for the first time.

  • Cost engineers and project controls staff on complex project scheduling accreditation.

  • Team leaders and supervisors who put scheduling accreditation into practice day to day.

  • Risk managers supporting complex project scheduling accreditation.

  • Planners and schedulers building the timeline for scheduling accreditation.

Course Modules

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01

Complex project scheduling accreditation: stakeholders, communication and support

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Writing the scope of complex project scheduling accreditation including what is excluded

  • Measure progress on complex project scheduling accreditation by value earned, not tasks ticked.
  • Plan handover of scheduling accreditation to the team that will operate it.
  • Review at each gate whether complex project scheduling accreditation should continue at all.
  • Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of scheduling accreditation.

Session 2Managing suppliers delivering part of scheduling accreditation

  • Set out the decisions in complex project scheduling accreditation that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around scheduling accreditation are understood.
  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about complex project scheduling accreditation.
  • Identify the data already collected that bears on scheduling accreditation.
02

Scheduling accreditation: schedule, critical path and realistic duration

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Where scheduling accreditation typically breaks, and why

  • Hold a lessons session on complex project scheduling accreditation while memory is accurate.
  • Reduce the variation in how scheduling accreditation is carried out between teams.
  • Prepare the recovery plan for complex project scheduling accreditation before it is needed.
  • Define the decision gates for scheduling accreditation and what evidence each requires.

Session 2Building a schedule for scheduling accreditation with a real critical path

  • Manage supplier performance on complex project scheduling accreditation against contract, not goodwill.
  • Set out how exceptions to scheduling accreditation are requested and approved.
  • Name a single owner for each element of complex project scheduling accreditation.
  • Establish the boundary of scheduling accreditation and record what sits outside it.
03

Scheduling accreditation: progress measurement and early warning

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Getting other functions to support scheduling accreditation

  • Set the review interval for complex project scheduling accreditation and who attends.
  • Anticipate the objections scheduling accreditation will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Register the risks to complex project scheduling accreditation with owner, probability and impact.
  • Identify the critical path through scheduling accreditation and the float elsewhere.

Session 2Estimating complex project scheduling accreditation without anchoring on the answer wanted

  • Map the handovers in complex project scheduling accreditation between functions and secure them.
  • Define acceptance criteria for scheduling accreditation in advance.
  • Set the change control process for complex project scheduling accreditation and require cost and time impact.
  • Define how the benefit from scheduling accreditation will be measured after closure.
04

Scheduling accreditation: governance, gates and decision rights

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Testing scheduling accreditation before relying on it

  • Agree the escalation threshold for complex project scheduling accreditation in advance.
  • Write the scope statement for scheduling accreditation including explicit exclusions.
  • Archive the decision record for complex project scheduling accreditation so successors understand it.
  • Record what was learned when scheduling accreditation did not go as planned.

Session 2Recovering scheduling accreditation when it is behind

  • Establish what evidence demonstrates complex project scheduling accreditation is under control.
  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in scheduling accreditation.
  • Compare resource demand from complex project scheduling accreditation against other commitments.
  • Define the trigger that would require scheduling accreditation to be redesigned.

Choose the package that suits you

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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